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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#409 – Electronics Consultant Impedance Matching
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		01:24:21
	Publish Date:		2018-09-30 23:16:35
	Description:		Welcome (counterclockwise) Piotr, Eric and Dave! Dave is 30% local to 70% remote, 75% fixed, 25% hourly 0h 16m 20s Eric is 80-90 local, 10% remote. 50-50 split on hourly vs fixed. 0h 17m 55s Piotr was 100% remote and , but his remaining job is local and hourly 0h 19m 21s Client archetypes 0h 20m 34s Stability 0h 22m 34s Past guest Philip Freidin wrote about being a consultant 0h 24m 04s “So you want to be a consultant?” 0h 25m 43s Do you bill for software? 0h 27m 17s Time tracking 0h 28m 51s Consulting specialty 0h 29m 31s Dave: likes diversity and depth of work 0h 29m 47s Eric: smaller projects beginning to end 0h 30m 36s Piotr: Vertically integrated 0h 31m 4s 0 hour billable weeks 0h 36m 51s Let’s figure out what’s best for that 0h 37m 59s Learning the personality of a client 0h 40m 58s Playing the timeline all the way forward 0h 41m 37s Client communication 0h 43m 16s Setting expectations 0h 43m 22s Firing a client 0h 43m 52s 3 strikes 0h 43m 56s Growing empathy for customers 0h 45m 24s Language barriers with clients 0h 47m 37s “This SHOULD be done by…” 0h 48m 2s Dealing with impostor syndrome 0h 51m 58s Known risks 0h 53m 18s Communicating to the client about lack of knowledge 0h 53m 39s When your startup client who suddenly gets funding, is woo’d and ultimately stolen by a bigger design firm promising the world….how does one manage ones anger? 0h 55m 22s Working through some of the design houses 0h 56m 57s Focal points – distributor FAEs, design houses, contract manufacturers 0h 58m 32s Getting recommendations from past clients 0h 59m 38s How to get started 1h 0m 36s Judging potential hires by their pull requests 1h 2m 56s Insurance 1h 8m 51s Usually on a product basis and not the design basis 1h 9m 35s LLCs all around 1h 10m 53s Good resources from IEEE 1h 11m 31s Consultant survey 1h 12m 28s What I really want to know is: why engineers feel they must undercharge for time as a consultant? No one should be blanching at $100+/hr. 1h 14m 4s Hourly rate goe down for billing more hours 1h 14m 18s Dave changes billing for if there’s more risk 1h 14m 35s Lowering hourly rate for things you like. Piotr does this for open source hardware. 1h 16m 25s Should you work for equity? 1h 17m 18s Working with startups 1h 18m 12s Changes the nature of the relationship 1h 18m 38s Rainy days cash 1h 20m 17s Getting personal finance stuff in order 1h 21m 42s Check out our guests’ sites to learn more: 1bitsquared.com LowVoltageLabs.com YoungCircuitDesigns.com
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