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Selling your time doesn't scale
by hendry 4y ago
Selling your time doesn't scale
- lelanthran 4y ago> Selling your time doesn't scale Sure, but it continuously opens to you new opportunities to unearth something that does scale, but isn't available yet... In any normal employment you don't get that.
- quickthrower2 4y agoYou are not necessarily selling time
- d1sxeyes 4y agoNo, but eventually you can start also selling other people's time.
- arcturus17 4y ago> Selling your time doesn't scale a) It doesn't need to be your time exclusively b) Time-based pricing is only one pricing model for consulting businesses. I'd add that, funnily, I sometimes hear this from FTEs (who sell their time) or product entrepreneurs who eat ramen for five years and then have little to show other than the time they've spent on the product. Meanwhile, some consultancy owners make real bank... It's fine if your risk profile allows you to do product, but if it isn't obvious, a service business can be totally legit.
- noufalibrahim 4y agoYou can make a very profitable decent business that doesn't "scale" in the technology product sense of the term.
- synthc 4y agoIt doesn't have to scale if the rates are high enough.