Called It: No more Elance or oDesk

A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a Austin-based startup founder on Skype. We talked about oDesk, Elance and the new UpWork service. I made the prediction UpWork would become the eventual platform and that we would see the exit of Elance just like oDesk. Based on the following email I just received it looks like I nailed it:

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2 Comments Called It: No more Elance or oDesk

    1. Jordan Dalton

      I think their motivation is to be a single, premier platform. I personally like the move. I had much greater success on oDesk. I was upset though to losing my top 4 organic Google ranking with my oDesk profile.

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