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by timedoctor 5002 days ago
We're just starting as a competitor (www.Staff.com) and kind of starting in the same way by helping companies to find staff with personal interaction. The competitive advantage that we are focussing on is: 1. Focus on full time hires with technology and staff that are oriented to working full time for one company. One of the issues with oDesk is that great freelancers are in high demand working for several clients and so are not focussed on your work. On the other side of the coin, most freelancers on the platform do not earn enough to make ends meet, because they only get a couple of jobs for $2 per hour to try and get started and they never get traction 2. More of a managed solution where we help companies to find the right staff member. This is possible because we are focussed only on full time hires.

Then as a second stage of the business build a platform that has some advantages over oDesk and other existing remote staffing platforms.