{"id":955,"date":"2011-04-18T01:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T05:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2011-04-18T01:02:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T05:02:25","slug":"doing-business-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/doing-business-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Business 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent, lengthy presentation from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mike_ftw\">Mike_FTW<\/a> about doing business as a freelancer designer (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/\">Zeldman<\/a>). This applies to any field, especially startups.\u00a0<em>I am not a lawyer, nothing here is legal advice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=22053820&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=22053820&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22053820\">2011\/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me.<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/sanfranciscocm\">SanFrancisco\/CreativeMornings<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get a contract in place before you perform any work that is reviewed by your own lawyer. Contracts are in place to benefit <em>both<\/em> parties and remove uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent, lengthy presentation from Mike_FTW about doing business as a freelancer designer (via Zeldman). This applies to any field, especially startups.\u00a0I am not a lawyer, nothing here is legal advice. 2011\/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from SanFrancisco\/CreativeMornings on Vimeo. TL;DR: Get a contract in place before you perform any work that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[498,611,619,614,613,615,618,617,620,612,616],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-business","tag-contracts","tag-design","tag-law","tag-lawyers","tag-legal","tag-mike-monteiro","tag-mike_ftw","tag-mule-design","tag-protection","tag-zeldman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}