Could you talk a little bit more about your situation and how you work with these guys?
I assume you are a contractor, can you tell us a little bit about your background and give us an example of how they helped you find work? Thanks.
I assume you are a contractor, can you tell us a little bit about your background and give us an example of how they helped you find work? Thanks.
I have an engineering background building machine learning/NLP services (think ad servers, chatbots, search engines etc), including at a few startups and on an ads quality team at Google (linkedin.com/in/sbrother). I had taken a few consulting gigs throughout my career, but I finally quit to pursue full time software consulting two years ago. At that point I signed up with 10x management in an effort to bring in leads to supplement those from my own network.
They have a loose network of ~100 similar freelancers, running the whole gamut of software development niches. They do their best to match clients (that's us) with customers, but will send leads out over an email list if not sure. They'll set up the first meeting, and if that goes well they'll help with rate negotiation and later on billing. For all this they take 15% of each invoice. From my perspective it is a fantastic deal -- they helped negotiate my standard rate up by 75% and have brought in some very large contracts for me. Their business has helped me scale mine to the point I've been able to hire an employee and take some time off for "paternity leave" without losing my entire income stream. I highly recommend working with them if their services look useful to you.
I’m a mobile engineer who used to work at Apple/Facebook who’s gone down a similar path and now I work as a consultant/contractor. I think I’ve done a pretty good job sourcing work for myself but I’d love to talk shop with you sometime if you are interested.