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The feedback we've been getting from employers is that they're much more comfortable paying on an hourly basis. They're worried about a team abandoning a projec

• aik 15y ago
  That's interesting. Isn't one of your primary benefits (from the employer point of view) the fact that you are a premium supplier of great talent? "Great talent" including "reliable"? If not, what separates you from any other freelancer website?
  • whather 15y ago
    Yes, and that's the primary reason we chose startups as a source of talent. They're a highly skilled, self-sufficient "swat team" that already have proven team fit. Nonetheless, renting a startup or (team for that matter) is still a new concept for employers and they are used to paying an hourly rate for consulting gigs. If we start to see way more demand for flat-rate project from startups, we'll move in that direction.
• nickzoic 15y ago
  +1 to the previous comment: time is an illusion, billable hours doubly so. You know what would be great? A trusted-third-party for judging whether a project meets its requirement milestones, and payments escrow to make sure that the money is actually there when it does ...