The Ruby Freelancers Show 012 – Getting Starting as a Freelancer

by woody2shoes on April 13, 2012

Panel

  • Charles Max Wood (   )
  • Eric Davis (  )
  • Evan Light (  )
  • Jeff Schoolcraft (  )

Discussion

  • All you need is a client
  • Business entity
  • Startups for the Rest of Us
  • Business Insurance
  • LegalZoom
  • Get a Contract
  • Health Insurance
  • Dave Ramsey ELP’s
  • Aflac
  • Group policies for companies
  • SERP
  • 401k
  • Find a CPA and talk to them
  • INGDirect
  • Pay Down Debt
  • Get some savings
  • Disability Insurance
  • Bob Walsh
  • Marketing
  • Start a Blog
  • Pay it Forward
  • Don’t oversell your abilities
  • Take a reduced rate if you’re not experienced
  • Subcontract to someone who is more experienced
  • Chad Fowler
  • Explain that they’ll have to pay for you to learn to do the work
  • Contribute to Open Source
  • Experiment with the code

Picks

  • Pick an Open Source project, find a feature request, and build it and give it to the project. (Eric)
  • If you don’t know about business or marketing, take a day a month learning. (Eric)
  •  (Evan)
  •  (Evan)
  • (Evan)
  • + (Evan)
  • The Power of Habit (Jeff)
  • If you’re not a Ruby person who is a designer, donate some time to an Open Source project. (Jeff)
  • Startup Marketing (Jeff)
  • Remote pairing (Jeff)
  • (Chuck)
  • (Chuck)
  • (Chuck)
  • (Chuck)

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

April 17, 2012 at 2:30 pm

The comment about me isn’t right. I’m not offended in any way by it but I wonder where it came from :)

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Jez September 27, 2012 at 11:51 am

Thanks! ..very helpful and informative podcast.. :)

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