How to (Not) Hire Freelancers for Your Startup

Post by timjahn » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 5:05 PM UTC

It sounds like the OP was burned at least once by a freelancer in the past. We come across folks like this every so often at matchist (http://matchist.com).

The biggest problem we often see (and I've seen in my previous experience as a freelance developer) is a lack of trust between the two parties. The client doesn't trust the developer to do their job and/or the developer doesn't trust the client to do their job.

The OP has some good ideas about how to establish trust between the two parties (communicating regularly and effectively, but most of his ideas appear to stem from the fact that he simply doesn't trust freelancers from the get go.

Post by mjolk » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

chasing wrote: post #39

mjolk wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Businesses require teams of talented people who can trust one another. Not everyone knows everything -- and if you think that everyone should just take advantage of each other, well, remind me to never hire you. Or work for you. Keep in mind that this article is about hiring outsourced/contract/freelance labor, not future partners/members of a team.

Yup, I know. Freelancers are members of the team, btw. And I still think it's not cool to find it perfectly acceptable for someone to scam someone else just because they can. Or to say that people who try to do things they're not good at deserve to be scammed.

>"Or to say that people who try to do things they're not good at deserve to be scammed."

It's more often the case that the hire isn't as good as he believes. Which is perfectly fine, because the person/"entrepreneur" that performed the hire is also still learning about the business.

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