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By The Financial Times, December 20, 2010
Calling itself "America’s premier on-demand workforce", Solvate allows you to find people capable of doing all kinds of work, ranging from the purely clerical to 3D modelling and social media programming. Solvate matches a broad array of talent with those who need it in a much more efficient way than the traditional temping agency. Read more >
By The Atlantic, September 17, 2010
The recession is pushing millions of people to work part-time, but Freelance America isn't all push. There are also those pulling the Gig Economy toward them by eschewing an office and taking multiple jobs at once, because they want to. In this new movement, nobody is pulling harder than Solvate. Read more >
By Gigaom, September 16, 2010
Solvate, a company that businesses looking for resources with professionals looking for work, today announced the launch of its “Talent Engine.” Read more >
By BusinessWeek, August 20, 2010
Instead of bringing on full-time talent, small employers are increasingly using temporary workers based in the U.S. and overseas. Read more >
By MLive.com, June 16, 2010
Solvate.com, an ecommerce startup that contracts top independent professionals across the country and makes them available to work on an hourly basis for small businesses and startups, is seeking people who are Microsoft-certified. Read more >
By Inc.com, May 26, 2010
Temporary workers can help small businesses weather economic ups and downs. To get great ones in the door, you need to choose the right temp agency. Read more >
By NY1, May 26, 2010
NY1's Employment reporter Asa Aarons talks to Solvate about how they help freelancers find work and build lasting connections. Read more >
By PR Newswire
A jobless recovery no more, New York City Based start-up Solvate will recruit 500 independent contractors over the next 90 days. Read more >
The American labor pool is turning way from the 9-to-5 and going toward start-to-finish. Online businesses are just starting to catch up, but one - Solvate.com - is ahead of the pack. Read more >
By The Atlantic
"What if we aren't talking about a jobless recovery? What if we're talking about the emergence of a part-time lifestyle?" That's the concern of many Americans forced into part-time work by the downturn. It's also the question Julie Ruvolo at Solvate wants to answer. Read more >
By AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn announces Solvate as a winner of the innaugural OnDemand100 award, which recognizes emerging Internet companies that are pioneers in cloud computing and SaaS. Read more >
By CNet.com
Solvate is a contractors' marketplace, along the lines of ODesk and Elance. But it's got a gorgeous Etsy-like interface as well as a very clever option that lets you only see contractors from your LinkedIn network. It'll be tough to fight the established players in this market, but this is a strong effort - Rafe Needleman. Read more >
By PC Magazine
Solvate has a staffing engine for connecting companies with consultants and other freelancers. Companies can post a request for a person who can perform a specific task, and individuals can sign up with their information. Then the service will search its database and let you narrow down the search by looking at previous employers, specific skills, and more. It can also be limited to your LinkedIn network, and you can find people who have worked together before. It seems like an interesting concept. Read more >
"I've been following Julie Ruvolo ever since she was a freelancer herself at VentureBeat," said Matt Marshall, Executive Producer of DEMO. "I am convinced that we are moving to a labor model that is on demand, and SaaS-powered, with lower overhead and increased mobility, for millions of small businesses like mine, and I think Solvate is taking a promising approach in that direction." Read more >
Unlike its competitors Elance and oDesk, Solvate focuses on nurturing quality talent and connecting them with the right clients, instead of making the entire selection process automated. Read more >
By Inc.com, March 1, 2010
Lessons from 16 super-efficient and highly-productive entrepreneurs, including tips from Julie Ruvolo of Solvate. Read more >
By Inc.com
Julie Ruvolo of Solvate on hiring for flexibility. Read more >
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Consider the gift of time, in $25 increments, from Solvate Customer Service Haggling. This startup VC-backed company takes on numerous phone-related haggling challenges, with impressive case study results. Read more >
By Tom Abate SFGate ,November 18. 2009
"What if we aren't talking about a jobless recovery? What if we're talking about the emergence of a part-time lifestyle?" Read more >
By Aaron Crowe, AOL Finance blog WalletPop, November 17. 2009
As Ruvolo put it, Solvate is "setting up a system that helps workers to work on demand." For businesses that can't afford full-time help, that's the best system in the world. Read more >
By small business writer Laura Petracca, USAToday, October 15. 2009
By peHUB, October 11. 2009
Solvate (www.solvate.com), a micro-staffing firm pioneering a new labor model for business owners and executives to delegate their w ork, raised $2.3 million in Series A financing from DFJ Gotham and RRE Ventures.
“Solvate makes it easy for companies to tap into a pool of experts with experience that is relevant to their business, so they can focus on priority tasks,” said Michael Paolucci, co-founder and CEO (Paolucci also co-founded 24/7 Media, which sold to WPP Group in 2007 for nearly $650 million). “Businesses are already used to buying software as a service. Now they can buy staffing as a service, even in small quantities, when they need it.” Read more >
By Anthony Ha, VentureBeat, October 8, 2009
A lot of us are in a constant battle with busy work, where random administrative tasks end up consuming as much time as the stuff you care about. But not everyone can afford to hire an assistant. Now a startup called Solvate wants to connect people with outsourced assistants who can do this work.
The basic idea is pretty simple. You tell Solvate what jobs you need done, then the company finds the right person for the task, and charges you for each 5-minute increment of work, with a base rate of $25 an hour. Solvate emphasizes doing things your way — you can contact the company via email, phone, or fill out a request form; the assistants (called Timesmiths) work on the software of your choice; and you can log into the Solvate website to see how the work is progressing. Read more >
By Dan Frommer, Alley Insider, October 8, 2009
Tech companies are increasingly buying some computer hardware as a service -- like Amazon's Web Services -- and software-as-a-service is obviously a huge industry. How about staffing-as-a-service? That's the idea behind NYC-based startupSolvate, which just raised $2.3 million in series A financing from DFJ Gotham and RRE, and is trying to take a bite of the $120 billion U.S. staffing industry. Read more >