I wondered if this might be a better angle - an ability to hire someone for a specific day each week. Not going to suit everyone, but it would mean that startup types could work the other 3-4 days without being distracted by the other project.

Otherwise, replacing a day job with a contract job might not be the biggest gain.

Thanks cmer! Yeah, investment can be super distracting. We spent around 5 months talking to investors for our last startup back in '08, when we could have been bootstrapping on a gig.

Just curious, how did you find your last contacting job? Did you work as a team or just allocate 1 person to do it?

Basically, there was one guy I wanted to hire but I simply couldn't afford it at the time. I found the contract through someone I knew. That new employee was the only person working on that contract. The rest of the team never touched the project. I only had to do some minor management work on it, talk to client, etc.

We didn't charge a whole lot but it was enough to cover most of his salary. We're not in California and salaries are lower here.