CBS News
Ian explains to CBS what vWorker (the company he founded and led) does, and how it saves customers money over traditional hiring.
FOX News
FOX news talks to a vWorker user (and Ian) about the perks of working on the vWorker site.
UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science
Serial entrepreneur Ian Ippolito was awarded the College of Engineering & Computer Science's Distinguished Alumnus Award by the University of Central Florida on March 19, 2015, in Winter Springs, FL, during an event informed by high technology.
BrightIdeas
Ian Ippolito explains how he exited from vWorker, including planting the seeds that maximized the final sale price of the company.
Mixergy Succesful Entrepreneurs Series
Andrew Warner interviews Ian about how he started from scratch and built vWorker into one of the largest outsourcing sites in the world...
BrightIdeas CEO Interview Series
Ian Ippolito explains how he beat out companies outspending him ten to one in this interview.
Joseph Warren Interviews of Succesful Startup Founders
Joseph Warren interviews Ian about his early life experiences and how they influenced his later entrepreneur endeavors...
The Eventual Millionaire
Jamie Tardy interviews Ian about his numerous entrepreneurial endeavors.
USA Today
"Ian Ippolito has become an expert on crowdfunding, He's researched 150 crowd real estate investing opportunities to date, and writes The Real Estate Crowd Funding Review to share his knowledge"...
Bloomberg News
"Calling yourself a crowdfunding platform and actually functioning as a marketplace are separate things, according to Ian Ippolito, a real estate investor in Tampa who has been tracking the proliferation of real estate crowdfunding platforms"...
Curbed
"In the nascent field of real estate crowdfunding, Ian Ippolito is probably the most knowledgeable investor"...
Entrepreneur magazine
Ian Ippolito saw the potential of crowdsourcing. Now his company is raking in millions. More than $24.7 billion of outsourced...
Fast Company magazine
Ian Ippolito hestitates to claim he founded Rent a Coder. It's more like the idea found him. Ippolito was running a software development firm in Tampa, Florida ...
Asian Business Leaders
Ippolito created a crowdsourcing service for hundreds of thousands from every corner of the world. In 2001, faced with an avalanche of business, Ian saw in opportunity in the fact that he was being forced to give up business that...
Knoxville News Sentinel
Ian Ippolito created his business with a $2,000 loan from parents. He’s built to 150 categories of remote workers and 2011 gross revenue of $11.1 million. His no-strings money-back guarantee stands out. ...
Old dawgs Real Estate Network Podcast with Bill Manassero
I call myself a passive investor. But there are investors who are even more passive...and who may not know the asset manager but invest through crowdfunding. That type of investor is precisely who our guest is today: Ian Ippolito...
Back in Black Podcast
Ian Ippolito is an American serial entrepreneur and the founder of numerous successful tech companies. His best work includes vWorker (formerly RentACoder), an onlline portal for outsourcing computer virtual work projects that was later purchased by Freelancer.com.
Publishing Profits
Ian Ippolito founded Rent-A-Coder (now vWorker) and grew the company to millions of dollars a year in sales. vWorker is one of the leading websites in the world that connects businesses and entrepreneurs with high quality freelancers, contractors, and virtual assistants.
The Story of the Sale of VWorker.com
vWorker was recently acquired by Freelancer.com. Creator Ian Ippolito shares the important factors he found crucial to selling a business the right way.
The American Entrepreneur
So you need a worker, but the ones who show up to your door just aren't the right fit. What do you do? Ian Ippolito had an idea. He's the founder and CEO of vWorker.com an e-commerce site where you can find and rent effective personnel for yourcompany.
Increase My Small Business
Ian Ippolito started vWorker as a small business out of an extra room in his house. Today it has 15 employees and did $11.1 million in revenue last year.
Inside Digital Media
Our guest today is Ian Ippolito who is the CEO of Exhedra Solutions, (d/b/a vworker.com and Rent a Coder.com). His company provides an online marketplace where remote workers can sell their services like guild workers to buyers who need custom programming...
My baby and I agreed not to spend any money on each other on Christmas. So that gave me the perfect cover to hatch my nefarious plan! It started as a scavenger hunt to all our favorite places...
After making our way through town, the clues took us to a book. It was hollowed out in the shape of a heart and there was a poem inside. And also something else...
I was so psyched that such a sweet, intelligent and talented woman who was also my BFF had said "Yes"! Here are the engagement photos from a beautiful historic hotel in Ybor City...
K + K photography
It was indescribable to be marrying the woman of my dreams and best friend, while also being surrounded by all the people I love and treasure the most! K + K did their usual incredible job on the photography ...
Elan Event Studio
"The happy couple recited their vows as Palma Ceia Presbyterian, then were whisked off to a fabulous reception at Avila. The newlyweds and their guests were entertained by Asian-inpsired cusine, a magician, a renowed plate-spinner, yo-yo performer and the ancient Chinese Lion Dance..."
Inspire a Bride Magazine
"K and K Photography captured this stunning pink and blue Oscar de la Renta gown affair. The slender bride looked gorgeous in her sweetheart neckline and beautiful blue stone and diamond bracelet, and a dazzling metal, diamond and pearl necklace" ...
Viola Cinematic
"Elise and Ian's gorgeous wedding found inspiration from the Asian culture. From Elise's dress to the sushi chef to the dragon dancers and plate spinners, this wedding set the stage for a dramatic film"...
There are lots of less fortunate people all around us that we never normally see. So we volunteered ourselves and the entire company to help out 35 hungry, low-income children. We also donated lunch, distributed it to them, bought a week's worth of groceries for their families...
Micro-enterprises vastly improve the lives of their owners, by giving them self-sufficiency. This gives them the ability to provide for themselves and their families and the dignity that comes with that. It also creates a wider positive social impact that affects their entire communities...
We are proud to support the following worthwhile organizations and encourage you to do so, as well: Direct Relief International, The Junior League of Tampa and The Hillsborough Education Foundation.
"It was one of those timeless nights -- somewhere between 1920 and 2010. The big daddy boss man himself, Ian Ippolito, turned his pad into the swinging speakeasy Elysian, hosting an open bar hootenanny to rival The Great Gatsby"...
My sweetheart and I were hanging out under one of the comfortable covered outdoor chairs in downtown Sarasota when a photographer from "Spotted" snapped a picture of us.
"Obama’s stimulus dug us out of the huge hole he inherited (from losing 900k jobs/month to creating 100k-200k/month)... Romney’s policies are rehashes of the failed reduced-regulation and trickle down policies of yester-year. They got us into this mess in the first place.”
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