Taskrabbit looks for more revenue with plans to shake up the temp industry
You can still hire a TaskRabbit to pick up your groceries or walk your dog, but now businesses will able to hire temps through TaskRabbit’s new platform as well. Read more »
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11 steps for scaling a startup
Establishing a startup’s business infrastructure early provides a number of critical benefits, including smoother financings and effective employee management. Sections of this paper discuss each of the above benefits and provide suggestions for management teams that will facilitate establishment of an appropriate infrastructure. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Causecast takes corporate philanthropy beyond the Fortune 500
Los Angeles-based startup Causecast this week debuted its Employee Impact Platform, a web-based program that connects companies and their employees with non-profits and charitable causes. With Causecast, small businesses can compete with larger, more established companies when it comes to offering employees ways to give back. Read more »
How do you hire great engineers? Give them a challenge
Good engineers are tough to come by, a fact of life for many startups. That’s why Quixey invented the Quixey Challenge, a coding puzzle for engineers that gives them a minute to fix a bug in a famous algorithm, which it uses as a recruiting tool. Read more »
Study: Social networkers have more ethics problems at work
Employees who are super active on social networking sites have a very different idea of what is appropriate workplace behavior than other workers, and run into on-the-job ethical violations more often, according to a new study published this week by the Ethics Resource Center. Read more »
Apple Supplier Audit Reveals Child Labor, More Violations
Apple has been criticized in the past for not doing enough to ensure that labor conditions in its supplier factories were up to international humanitarian standards. Today, it released its 2010 Supplier Responsibility report (PDF), in which it provides the details of audits it conducts at […] Read more »
Crowdsourcing from the Developing World
Last month saw the launch of CrowdFlower, an interesting venture that applies Dolores Labs’ Labor-as-a-Service platform to the non-profit “micro employment” foundation Samasource. We’ve previously covered web-based labor and outsourcing services — notably Shorttask and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk — that match-make workers and tasks, and I’ve […] Read more »
