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Not really. Tech stocks are more volatile because more of their value (compared to someone like GE or P&G) is based on hypothetical growth projections- revenue and profit. Any mark…

Like many others have mentioned, the client companies don't want to be involved in hiring 1099s directly because of the liability (lookup google/odesk). What our startup http://www…

Aww- my 5 year old twin boys had picked up their "Don't drive like my brother" from listening to their show and the Cars movie- and use it often. So sad they won't get to enjoy the…

There's already plenty of laws to regulate them and they work pretty well for the most part. The problem is if a large company wants to hire contractors directly- and not use a sta…

I'm not aware of how it works in those fields, but as I see it, trying to burden companies with unclear laws and force artificial behavior is what is causing the problem in this ca…

They don't want job-seekers cherry picking or getting confused between full-time jobs and contract jobs (You can sometimes get a higher pay-rate contracting than as a full-time at …

I believe these laws were first put in place to prevent factory owners from exploiting poorly paid workers- and weren't really meant for highly paid tech workers. The problem with …

There are two reasons (both sort of hard to fix) for why contracting is screwed up. 1. Co-employment- Large companies like Google or Apple would love to hire contractors directly b…

I'm sure I could learn but I'll never be at a level to be really productive, so I find it better to use my time on doing customer development, product management (which I can do), …

The best recruiters at staffing agencies function like talent agents and prefer to place contractors on gig after gig because they know what they are looking for and won't waste th…

As expected. Single non-coding founder. Why do i bother? For a few weeks after the rejection I find myself very highly motivated.

Maybe it was to preempt something like this. Seattle City council calling out Amazon to treat its security guards better and to let them unionize. http://www.geekwire.com/2014/seat…

The host was Mark Haines, a long time host of Squawk Box, a daily morning business program on CNBC following the stock market. He passed away recently. He had a no-nonsense intervi…

I think they took IT staffing companies like Adecco, Manpower(contractors that work 40hrs/week at clients) instead of IT Consulting (Accenture, etc.) or freelance tech consultants …

May I humbly suggest my site http://www.oncontracting.com I'm still testing it in Seattle but would happily work on adding new content from elsewhere.

Ah- No horror story - but I did have to bid my time in Corporate America for 10 years waiting to get my greencard and eligible to start my own business. So now I'm in my 40s doing …