Timeline for Working for free?
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| Aug 16, 2011 at 14:59 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by user7519 | ||
| Aug 2, 2011 at 14:54 | comment | added | John MacIntyre | @Steve314 - " if you're providing something for free (not starting a business), that's probably not a big deal" ... that was exactly my point. The cost is the same (your time), but at least there's some possibility of an upside. | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 2:08 | comment | added | Michael Trausch | I have for a long time made my living by severely undercutting the competition. Once, someone told me "you have such problems getting your clients to listen to you because you undercut so badly. You must charge enough to convey your authority." That was several years ago; suffice it to say that in the time since then I have learned that he is correct. | |
| Jul 31, 2011 at 22:43 | comment | added | user8709 | It may be easy to start a business, but it's very very easy to fail. There's a whole load of stuff that has to happen for a business to work that most employee developers never have to deal with. Just because you have a nice product doesn't mean that people will magically start buying it. OTOH, if you're providing something for free (not starting a business), that's probably not a big deal. | |
| Nov 20, 2010 at 19:14 | comment | added | Malfist | +1 for "the less somebody pays, the less they appreciate you." | |
| Nov 20, 2010 at 19:01 | history | edited | John MacIntyre | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 20, 2010 at 18:45 | history | answered | John MacIntyre | CC BY-SA 2.5 |