Re:Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?
by spydum on Saturday March 11, 2017 @04:33PM
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The great irony in tech is that we all rail on tech outsourcing, but no qualms about it elsewhere (marketing, sales, finance, HR, etc). I get it if you aren't quite big enough for a full time person, but just remember incentives are usually against you.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?
by tedmiston on Saturday March 11, 2017 @04:36PM
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Outsourcing is a useful and necessary skill for entrepreneurs. Outsourced dev has a bad reputation overall but there are also good devs in other countries. That said most business work is far less complicated than dev work, and the risks of doing it wrong are lower.
If a dev turned entrepreneur values their time @ $100/hr and a 10-hour business task can be outsourced with a 15-minute description to someone else for $15/hr, it's the "right" decision.