In other words, who has the greatest need for data scientists and data analysts and would be willing to hire people virtually? And what kind of projects do you think make sense in such a context?
I would copy Kaggle initially (80%) and innovate (20%). The key is to get to Product / Market Fit asap, then scale. http://www.kaggle.com/
Andrew Chen ( https://clarity.fm/andrewchen ) goes over this nicely in his presentation Zero to Product Market / Fit http://andrewchen.co/2013/10/14/zero-to-productmarket-fit-presentation/
