Comments on: The Business World http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2009/02/26/the-business-world/ Thu, 20 May 2010 00:42:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Fort Worth on the Web for Wednesday | Fort Worth Renaissance http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2009/02/26/the-business-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5452 Fort Worth on the Web for Wednesday | Fort Worth Renaissance Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:45:44 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/?p=624#comment-5452 [...] Wann of Cowtown Chronicles writes that it’s important for a business to pay it’s subcontractors,...replying to a post from Penelope Trunk telling how she paid a bunch of freelancers in stock because [...] [...] Wann of Cowtown Chronicles writes that it’s important for a business to pay it’s subcontractors,…replying to a post from Penelope Trunk telling how she paid a bunch of freelancers in stock because [...]

]]> By: Sonja http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2009/02/26/the-business-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5445 Sonja Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:34:29 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/?p=624#comment-5445 No no stick to your guns Pete. You're right on the money. No no stick to your guns Pete. You’re right on the money.

]]> By: Pete Wann http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2009/02/26/the-business-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5424 Pete Wann Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:09:32 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/?p=624#comment-5424 Thanks for the comment, Penelope. I do love your blog, and I appreciate that you're sharing the joys and heartaches of starting a business with the whole world. I've been in a weird place lately, what with all the partisan political bickering (which is double-triple multiplied since neo-cons are such sore losers), the economy, and a whole bunch of personal stuff. Thus my visceral reaction to the inherent unjust-ness of the whole situation. I guess I'm going through a life growth spurt, and it's been a little painful. Thanks for the comment, Penelope. I do love your blog, and I appreciate that you’re sharing the joys and heartaches of starting a business with the whole world.

I’ve been in a weird place lately, what with all the partisan political bickering (which is double-triple multiplied since neo-cons are such sore losers), the economy, and a whole bunch of personal stuff. Thus my visceral reaction to the inherent unjust-ness of the whole situation.

I guess I’m going through a life growth spurt, and it’s been a little painful.

]]> By: Sonja Cassella http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2009/02/26/the-business-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5423 Sonja Cassella Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:41:52 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/?p=624#comment-5423 I have to say as a former freelancer who decided to teach school instead of keep waiting to get paid that I *used* to always be paid. Yes, that's right, before 2008 no one ever welshed on me. Then I had three magazines go back on promises to pay in 2008. My husband, who teaches at UNT, says the ethics of the students have changed over the years he's been teaching, so maybe our corportate "values" are changing too. I don't know. I think businesses having access to freelancers is based on the expectation that you will pay them. And if businesses stop paying freelancers, freelancing is going to stop seeming attractive. I have to say as a former freelancer who decided to teach school instead of keep waiting to get paid that I *used* to always be paid. Yes, that’s right, before 2008 no one ever welshed on me. Then I had three magazines go back on promises to pay in 2008.

My husband, who teaches at UNT, says the ethics of the students have changed over the years he’s been teaching, so maybe our corportate “values” are changing too. I don’t know. I think businesses having access to freelancers is based on the expectation that you will pay them. And if businesses stop paying freelancers, freelancing is going to stop seeming attractive.

]]> By: Penelope Trunk http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2009/02/26/the-business-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5420 Penelope Trunk Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:12:29 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/?p=624#comment-5420 Here's what the investors told me when I brought up the argument you make: Startups are very risky. Freelancers who work with very early startups generally do it because they need the work -- they don't have a big contract with a Fortune 500 company, for example. So freelancers understand going into it that they are working with a risky company. I was a freelancer for five years. And I have to say that I approached startups exactly this way. Penelope Here’s what the investors told me when I brought up the argument you make: Startups are very risky. Freelancers who work with very early startups generally do it because they need the work — they don’t have a big contract with a Fortune 500 company, for example. So freelancers understand going into it that they are working with a risky company.

I was a freelancer for five years. And I have to say that I approached startups exactly this way.

Penelope

]]> By: Free Money – Atomic Glee Studios http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2009/02/26/the-business-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5417 Free Money – Atomic Glee Studios Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:01:09 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/?p=624#comment-5417 [...] Atomic Wouldn’t have been my first choice for an ad to place on my friend Pete’s blog post about economic troubles, [...] [...] Atomic Wouldn’t have been my first choice for an ad to place on my friend Pete’s blog post about economic troubles, [...]

]]> By: Kevin Buchanan http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2009/02/26/the-business-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5415 Kevin Buchanan Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:58:23 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/?p=624#comment-5415 I have to say, the ad that Google decided to slip into your feed as it came up on my reader actually drove home the madness that this country is in: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3441/3311084165_408107cb7b_o.jpg I have to say, the ad that Google decided to slip into your feed as it came up on my reader actually drove home the madness that this country is in:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3441/3311084165_408107cb7b_o.jpg

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