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I am working on my own company that sells a news API. We've launched a month ago, it's fully bootstrapped. I have money for a few more months but at some time might search for a "job".
Does anyone here works as a "self-employed" consultant?
How do you find your clients?
http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-ge...
What distinction do you mean to make between freelancing and consulting? Those terms usually describe the same thing. http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-ge...
And FWIW I like the product, and I'm a potential customer. The news that the founder(?) lacks faith in it is less than ideal.
I was tempted at times to do consulting when we were in the early days of the business. If I had, we wouldn't still be here 11 years later, I'm sure.
Good luck!
What distinction do you mean to make between freelancing and consulting? Those terms usually describe the same thing. http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-ge...
Not OP, but in my book consultant and freelancer are orthogonal terms. You can be both at the same time. Consultants are brought in to address specific problems -- often on a freelance basis. I believe what OP is trying to avoid is being "expensive furniture", "body shopping", essentially being a long term employee without any of the benefits, that sort of thing.
So, hiring a freelancer when you do not understand what a solution should be is usually a misstep.
What distinction do you mean to make between freelancing and consulting? Those terms usually describe the same thing. http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-ge...
What distinction do you mean to make between freelancing and consulting? Those terms usually describe the same thing. http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-ge...
Consulting to me carries connotations of much higher skill and much higher pay by orders of magnitude.
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Consulting to me carries connotations of much higher skill and much higher pay by orders of magnitude.
Then call yourself a consultant and raise your prices ;-)
What distinction do you mean to make between freelancing and consulting? Those terms usually describe the same thing. http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-ge...
Consulting to me carries connotations of much higher skill and much higher pay by orders of magnitude.
It's funny how people understand terms differently. To me, consultant says mostly "working for a large-ish consultant company on large projects for large companies", while freelance is "self-employed", working on your own.