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Re:How to start a successful freelance business as a softwar... by ivanhoe on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:36AM (#29874529)
Well, of course that hiring a consultant to lead the project for you will cost you more than not paying anything to your co-founder who works for stock only. If you can find a co-founder with both the expertise and will to work just for some hypothetical money on the end of the rainbow, great for you, you should go with it.

And if not, you can always hire a consultant and accept it as a realistic cost of running the business, instead of feeling being ripped off because you could have had it cheaper "only if".

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Re:How to start a successful freelance business as a softwar... by anovikov on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:53AM (#29875671)
Thing is, anyone working for money and also acting as a gatekeeper at distributing more money will have a conflict of interest impossible to ignore. Especially when the person is from a low-trust society, as facilitated by freelance sites. And, these people are better skilled at negotiation/bullshitting AND can work "cheaper" (or so it seems) so they will always have an upper hand in negotiations vs good ones, unless the client is deeply technical - but in this case, read above, he'll manage devs himself and hire them individually => no potential for a custom software dev company there.
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