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deelix
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Thinking that too... ill work for some years and get some more XP.
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2008 11:50 Post subject: |
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Startup companies tend to be middle aged guys who are at their 3rd or 4th attempt. The tiny amount of uni-student-in-garage stories are just much more interesting and get more play.
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2008 11:53 Post subject: |
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You can make a lot of money inbetween being a middle man. I know a guy who basically does no work but gets payed almost $1500 a week. He runs a ring of webdesigners and coders and creates his money by collecting clients, syphonning it to these guys he trusts to do the work, gives them their money (me included), then gives the finnished project back to the client taking a 20% cut on top of each one. When its only say 70$ yet he does 20 or so a week, it adds up pretty fast. Its a fucking simple idea yet he makes LOTS of cash from it, and it is pretty limitless doing so. Yeh its hard work if you consider sending out 100 emails a day and posting on countless forums, but shit, at least hes sat in the comfort of his room.
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2008 12:03 Post subject: |
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...not to mention that you have to be better, faster, more flexible etc than your competitors
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2008 12:32 Post subject: |
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...and that intertwinement makes you also less attractive for big customers. The key argument is always reliability or quality of service. If you only have a well known name and behind the name lies emptiness or only a bunch of freelancers then what kind of reliability are we talking about?
One thing is to create the web solution...the other thing is to maintain it for the rest of it's life cycle. Are the same freelancers available after 5 years? Is the company itself around after 5 years? Then what?
Therefore freelancing or siphoning freelancers is in its essence...a dying form of entrepreneurship. Most big companies will take ongoing concern more and more seriously making the life of freelancers more and more complicated. Then you'll have to compete with really big guys who have an army of workhorses for the big money or live from scraps creating web pages for gas stations etc. It's up to you what you want to do with your life and with your company.
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Don't know the proper therm. Easier to get a permanent pretty good paying job =)
be an entrepreneur ffs 
its 2008!
