One way around the billing issues is to act like an attorney, and go with a retainer. Disclosure: I've worked with stickfigure and we've both been on a job whe

One way around the billing issues is to act like an attorney, and go with a retainer. Disclosure: I've worked with stickfigure and we've both been on a job where we got stiffed because we didn't use the retainer model. Lesson learned. ;-)