Like other successful start-ups it has emerged in a relatively short time to completely transform a certain segment of industry: in this case, freelance work.
Beryl Richards, who has directed various popular TV series, including ITV's Wild at Heart, blamed the freelance nature of the industry, which she said was "completely unregulated".
Deutsche Post has expanded package delivery networks to profit from the uptick in online shopping and has also progressively expanded its offerings into completely new areas, like running online marketplaces similar to eBay for freelance writers.
"I was completely devastated when it disappeared the first time," said Louise Rozett, a freelance book editor in Brooklyn, who had used the sponge to avoid hormone-based birth control pills.
I have gone from being VICE's freelance non-official comics expert to the part-time, completely official art editor.
A single freelance writer in New York, Mr. Marchese decided to buy and completely renovate a house somewhere near his hometown, Scranton, Pa., where his parents still lived.
He added, "All those ideas are now completely part of the mainstream system, so that you don't actually need freelance curators anymore in order to make radical statements".
"The decision to bring charges of piracy against two freelance journalists and 28 Greenpeace activists including five from the UK is completely outrageous," said John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, in a statement.
"It was completely impractical and terrifying to jump off that cliff into the abyss, and go freelance and follow the creative inspiration instead of the dollar".
Conrad Heine: freelance correspondent.
