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Growing a team by utilizing a marketplace with highly vetted freelancers in a gig economy… Nathan Hirsch, Founder and CEO of FreeeUp (FreeeUp is a marketplace offering pre-vetted freelance talent) joins Thomas Kutzman for a conversation about growing a business with the right talent. MouthMedia Network studios are powered by Sennheiser. Presented by Prevu.In this episode: The gig economy, and accepting the fact that entrepreneurs are not equally good at every part of their business How FreeeUp provides access to great talent all over the world to help build business FreeeUp’s original start in ecommerce, then marketing, then real estate agencies (10-15% of their current client are in Real Estate) An example of a virtual assistant What’s driving the trend of freelancing The way FreeeUp provides a lot of vetting, only takes the top 1%, and when they let them in How FreeeUp started with $2k and grew to millions – only using freelancers from their own marketplace, and running a virtual company How they didn’t look at FreeeUp company as a software business initially – looked at it as people who matched people — but when they looked at it as software and kept improving it, the company turned a corner Why freelancing is part of the next wave of the business economy How FreeeUp has a good foothold — pain points tough to fix, and hard to copy when fixed – looking at any competition in the business—and the vetting process is challenging to get right Freelancers have multiple clients each with their own styles, agendas Spending extra time at beginning setting best expectations will help save countless hours of clarification Solid communication, feedback to freelancers is critical when employing them The biggest error: assuming everyone’s expectations are the same Diversifying is important different people for different functions What would you do with extra hours? An important business lesson, and how Hirsch’s entrepreneurial career began with — selling baby products out his dorm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.