Comments on: 5 ways to save money on your start-up http://www.16thletter.com/2008/02/14/5-ways-to-save-money-on-your-start-up/ thoughts on how the Internet intersects with work, play & life Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:12:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Consulting sucks, but thanks for the work » 16th letter » Blog Archive http://www.16thletter.com/2008/02/14/5-ways-to-save-money-on-your-start-up/#comment-6533 Consulting sucks, but thanks for the work » 16th letter » Blog Archive Thu, 22 May 2008 18:01:16 +0000 http://www.16thletter.com/2008/02/14/5-ways-to-save-money-on-your-start-up/#comment-6533 [...] a company is tricky because there is never enough money. There are ways to raise money, and ways to save money, but usually you are thinking about both of those things because money is [...] […] a company is tricky because there is never enough money. There are ways to raise money, and ways to save money, but usually you are thinking about both of those things because money is […]

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]]> By: Josh Breinlinger http://www.16thletter.com/2008/02/14/5-ways-to-save-money-on-your-start-up/#comment-2185 Josh Breinlinger Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:27:30 +0000 http://www.16thletter.com/2008/02/14/5-ways-to-save-money-on-your-start-up/#comment-2185 Hiring contractors vs full-time: I couldn't agree more, my team right now consists of 0 full-time employees and 7 contractors, all distributed. (India, Russia, Brazil, US) I use our own service, oDesk.com, to build my team and can adjust weekly limits and start and end assignments any time. The nice thing is that it's hourly time-based work, so I don't waste time spec'ing out a $50 project every time I need a short task done. How do you manage your 20 contractors? How do you keep them on task? How do you monitor progress? -Josh Breinlinger oDesk Hiring contractors vs full-time:

I couldn’t agree more, my team right now consists of 0 full-time employees and 7 contractors, all distributed. (India, Russia, Brazil, US)

I use our own service, oDesk.com, to build my team and can adjust weekly limits and start and end assignments any time. The nice thing is that it’s hourly time-based work, so I don’t waste time spec’ing out a $50 project every time I need a short task done.

How do you manage your 20 contractors? How do you keep them on task? How do you monitor progress?

-Josh Breinlinger
oDesk

]]> By: Chris Tackett http://www.16thletter.com/2008/02/14/5-ways-to-save-money-on-your-start-up/#comment-2170 Chris Tackett Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:37:06 +0000 http://www.16thletter.com/2008/02/14/5-ways-to-save-money-on-your-start-up/#comment-2170 I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you. Chris Tackett I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Chris Tackett

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