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Re:How to (Not) Hire Freelancers for Your Startup by mjolk on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @12:24PM (#6284404)
>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.

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Re:How to (Not) Hire Freelancers for Your Startup by chasing on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @12:39PM (#6284519)
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.
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Re:How to (Not) Hire Freelancers for Your Startup by mjolk on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @01:43PM (#6284951)
>"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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