$10 Million Spent To Date On oDesk OutSourcing Projects
Until recently oDesk only allowed projects to be priced on an hourly basis. Two weeks ago they launched fixed price jobs as well, which is something many comments here requested in our previous posts about them. After a month of quiet beta testing, 750 jobs were posted at a fixed price, with an average price of around $500
The company says their top markets for buyers are the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia, while the most popular markets for providers are India, Russia, the Ukraine, the U.S. and the Philippines. The programming skills most in-demand are PHP/MySQL, C#/.Net, ASP, Java/J2EE and C/C++/Win32SDK.
oDesk is based in Menlo Park and they have raised $6M from Sigma Partners and Globespan.