I totally agree. I'm a designer/developer (better at design) and I have a company, I don't freelance. I make that distinction very clear. Sure, the company has

I totally agree. I'm a designer/developer (better at design) and I have a company, I don't freelance. I make that distinction very clear. Sure, the company has me as its only employee but that's temporary. Now, the article's title seems a bit misleading. It sounds more like the author is advocating that designers stop freelancing and join a startup full time, not to stop freelancing and start a company. I wish the post had touched on topics like the fact that considering or calling yourself a freelancer is short sighted and that starting a design company can be better for your bottom line in some markets. That said, I also feel a bit bad for many of the people who will read this. At least the ones who are designers. These days there are about as many people who think they can call themselves designers as those who think they have the next big app idea. I include myself in this. Anyone nowadays can read some NetTuts, get a book on HTML and think they're a designer. It sucks and it hurts the good ones out there. While I cringe lately at posts like this that give hope to people who have no business in the areas of design/development/entrepreneurship, I'm also glad they show up here on HN as I myself needed them about a year ago to get where I am today. I'm not an iota as skilled as a lot folks here on HN but I'm glad that the few who do have "it" (as in, "what it takes") get to read this and hopefully it fuels them to do things the rest of us only wish we could do.