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Darbyshire: SmartSuite contracted its entire design team exclusively via Upwork
“He is. His team. So he's got a team of three or four people that work with him. Very reasonable rates for that team. And they got rid of everything else about a year and a half ago, so they, that's basically our design team.”
Rawson: Screenshot monitoring is not the future of remote productivity
“We do have a screenshot feature similar to Upwork and the, that's great. And but I don't actually feel like that's the future. Like I say, I think the artificial intelligence part is the future because you can more accurately determine what What's actually goi…”
Tartt: Upwork Clients Generally Have a Really Bad Experience
“You can go to Upwork and you can hire somebody, but you're going to, Generally, from what I've heard, have a really bad experience as a client.”
Nathan Latka tests Upwork contractors by paying 10 simultaneously
“What I do is I put filtering in place and I click on the most expensive hourly rate. And I pay 10 people to do the same task. And then I look at the work quality and then I use the one ongoing, which would, who gave me the Best hourly rate for the best value o…”
Nathan Latka: Freelance developer hiring should target the highest price tier
“That is the mistake most people make is they give the project out and they go and try and find someone in the middle or the bottom price point, just hire the most expensive, but it's still way cheaper than a 300,000 dollars San Francisco engineer.”
Latka: Test 30 Upwork freelancers with paid specs to find top talent
“This is a great way to find great talent, because you put up the same project, so you have a design spec, To 30 people on Upwork, you pay them all their rate, you collect all the designs, then you pick the best one.”
Clayton: Very few companies succeed at being both a marketplace and SaaS
“And so one of the kind of conundrums that you face when you're building a marketplace is you kind of almost have to bet am I a marketplace or am I a SaaS business? There's very few examples of people doing it well at the same time, and so, you know, you might …”
Jackson: Braintrust targets multimillion-dollar enterprise projects over competing with Upwork
“We're not trying to disrupt Upwork or Fiverr. Those are sites where you get a logo or a website We're looking to build large, you know, and facilitate building large software platforms, big, big projects, multimillion dollar projects that could never touch a m…”
Fiverr and Upwork compete for just 6% of the freelance market
“And the other drivers really is that if you look at the freelance market in general, is it like Still happens outside of online marketplaces. And so the Fiverr and the Upwork and so are really competing within these existing six percent right now.”
Verblio targets 50% marketplace margin vs. Upwork's 10%
“We're shooting for more of a 50% margin range versus the 10% up work range.”
Apfelbaum: Paid Upwork contractors $2/hour to build targeted lead lists
“I have there's a website. It used to be called Odesk. Now it's called Upwork. And I would just hire people for two dollars an hour to build it for me.”
Tartt: Upwork, Elance, and Freelancer Take 10% to 40% Cut
“So the other sites, Upwork, Elance, Freelancer, they all charge a percentage of a project. So if you're going to be spending, you know, five to 10 grand on a project, that's, they're going to take, you know, anywhere from 10 to 40% of that.”
Samet: Upwork and Yelp use TrueAccord for debt collection
“We're being used by, we have Upwork that's doing services. They use us. We have Yelp.”
Masood: Freelance developers on platforms like Upwork averaged $200 per widget project
“We found that the average developer was being paid about 200 dollars on the leading freelance marketplaces like Upwork. And they had to 200 dollars for a small widget project. Okay. And so they would need to take at least 10 to 18 of those projects in a month …”
Gian: PacketZoom won Sephora, Glu Mobile, and Upwork as enterprise customers
“We started with enterprise selling. We were able to attract Customers like Sephora and Glue Mobile and Upwork”
Lawyer for Your Debts Built Its MVP in Six Months via Upwork
“We start we start in April, May, April, May, and in November we had the MVP.”
Bullhorn launched in 1999 as a creative talent marketplace before pivoting
“So we started Bullhorn in 1999 and we were originally We were a online service, kind of like if you've ever used or seen Upwork or Fiverr, we were an online marketplace and specifically we were focused on creative talent and it was really too early for that bu…”