Montalvo Machado
6 HN recommenders · recommended in 5 months, 2013–2017
38:40 · 299K views · May 9, 2013
Mike Monteiro's Creative Mornings talk "Fuck You, Pay Me" with his lawyer Keith Levine, on contracts, scope creep and making sure designers and freelancers get paid. This copy has Portuguese subtitles.
Recommended to freelancers and consultants as practical advice on contracts and getting paid.
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I'll attempt to add to this. I might be stating things that are a bit controversial here. 1 thing we are always transparent with users about is how our business model works. 1 of my favorite videos on the internet about this is [1]. We are very much based on closed source for making revenue. This has actually helped with our community a lot. We are basically focused on closed source solutions for specific verticals. The only way to get clients to pay is to make something more efficient or don't open source/core it. For open source companies there is always a trade off of community vs customers. You have to find a hard line and stick to it. Community is great, but most of those people won't want to pay you. You can try to convert them, but that takes a lot of time and isn't the best path to market. We strive to provide a great base line experience to our users, but a few of the things we have found in practice that helps: 1. Features have customer names on them 2. There's a mass of community interest in a specific feature You have to be careful about where time is spent. It's very easy to mistake "users" for "customers". I wish slava and co the best of luck and really appreciate their post mortem. 1 thing we've learned as an infra company is "be as close to the app as possible". In our case the bulk of what we focus on is banking/telco anomaly detection. It's a straight forward revenue making product that can benefit from deep learning. The great thing is we can grow in to oth
There's your first problem. You had a shitty contract that isn't paying you for billable hours. If you quit paying me, or on net 30, you will pay for the work I've done. And if you don't, I'll take your ass to court. "Fuck you, pay me." Very relevant video: this video
Mike Monteiro - "Fuck you pay me" this video See his comments on contracts, starting generally at 7m 20s Scope creep is included. Renegotiate. It's a new project.
It's from: Mike Monteiro - "Fuck you pay me" talk. Here's a link to the relevant bit in the video: this video I would however, recommend the whole vid.
There are a lot of things that you need to do to start your own consulting firm. One of those things to do needs to be: * Watch this video: this video