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From bulk outsourcing to bespoke blended teams

By Flexing It : 1/03/2020

The days of bulk outsourcing of entire transactional departments to offshore locations are over but those jobs are not simpl…

Women In Freelancing

By Deepali Gupta : 11/02/2020

The general perception when you tell someone you are a freelancer is that you wake up at noon, stay in your pajamas and avoid doing an…

The Case For Flexible Talent

By Flexing It : 18/06/2018

Flexible talent comprises essentially workers who are hired by a company on a temporary, contract or freelance basis for projects. It …

Think about value you can add to a task

By Chandrika Pasricha : 28/05/2018

The brief I was given and what I did in the first 100 days at work I joined at a time when the Indian economy was slumping due to the…

Lessons on Marketing For an Early-stage Start-up

By Rohit Mathur : 28/05/2018

From my personal corporate work experience, I’ve noticed that of the 10 entrepreneurs that I interact with, almost eight say mar…

Flexibility And Freedom Will Define The Future of Work

By Rohit Mathur : 28/05/2018

Predicting the future has always been humankind's endeavour—whether through tarot cards and numerology or through business forec…

From Independent C-Suite Executives to Digital Experts, demand spikes for top Freela…

By Flexing It : 29/10/2020

Flexing It’s recent research on the professional or highly skilled gig economy in 2019–20 showed…

Crafting a Strong Freelancer Value Proposition: Are Organisations Ready- Twitter Cha…

By Flexing It : 4/02/2020

Disruption in Consulting

By Flexing It : 15/09/2017

The consulting industry is undergoing meaningful changes - advancements in technology, data democratization and evolving client expect…

Decoding the gig economy

By Rohit Mathur : 21/11/2016

The noise around the sharing economy is deafening. Rules are getting broken, industries are getting disrupted and unicorns are being b…

It's End Of Work As We Know It

By Rohit Mathur : 21/11/2016

It all started in a 2 bedroom apartment in New York, at the dawn of the freelance economy when 3 inspired engineers founded Elance in …

Supporting the Changemakers to find the talent to scale

By Flexing It : 6/10/2016

Flexing It works with social entrepreneurs solving diverse problems. Our platform helps development sector organizations find inn…

TIASG2016: 2 days of perspective

By Rohit Mathur : 18/04/2016

For a newbie to the startup world (read me), the Tech in Asia conference in Singapore (12–13 April) proved to be an orientation …

The Five People You Need to Start A Startup

By Prashant Vijay : 21/11/2016

The internet lowers transaction costs and helps us create new business models, where fewer and fewer things need to be done in-house i…

It's Winter For Startups! Here Are Five Ways To Extend Your Runway

By Prashant Vijay : 21/11/2016

Over the last few months, funding in the startup eco-system has slowed down, especially for Series B and beyond. It is estimated that …

Fundraising journey of a single #founder

By Chandrika Pasricha : 2/03/2016

“There are few factors that can make a company more successful, fun, and epic than an awesome co-founder. There are few factors …

5 Mantras for Non-Techie Founders of Tech Startups

By Chandrika Pasricha : 25/02/2016

I’m a non-techie founder of a technology startup. At the time I started (Flexing It was launched in late 2012) I didn’t ha…

Flexing It™ Startup Survey Reveals an Untapped Talent Resource.

By Flexing It : 23/02/2016

A survey conducted by Flexing It, a curated online marketplace for companies and professionals for part-time assignments, reveale…

Bringing Background Verification to the front

By Amar : 2/09/2015

Background verification has become a hot subject in India and rightly so. In the wake of a series of cases of fake credentials found i…

Introducing FlexScore™: Get that perfect fit for any role or skillset

By Chandrika Pasricha : 25/09/2014

The fact that the search for assignments and candidates has gone increasingly online over the past decade and a half is indisputable. …

A freelancer's guide to taking over the world!

By Gauri Vasudeva : 2/07/2014

A struggling freelancer or a professional stuck in a job that doesn't work for you, whichever of the two categories you fall into, thi…

A success factor for getting valued as freelancers – Negotiation!

By Nikita D'cruz : 22/01/2014

 'In business, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate'- Chester. L. Karrass   If you have chosen…

Sourcing clients and specialised talent – the top 2 challenges for niche services fi…

By Flexing It : 9/01/2014

The service sector in India is emphatically booming with a current industry turnover of Rs. 30,000 crores. More importantly, even amon…

You shouldn't treat HR as an avoidable cost. And now you don't need to!

By Chhavi Mishra : 16/09/2019

Once a business idea strikes and takes shape in an entrepreneur’s mind, he or she is in a…

Launching a new brand for the digital Indian consumer

By Chitra Agarwal : 17/07/2018

For entrepreneurs looking to capitalise on India’s new found digital dividend, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) is a truly…

What makes me unique!

By Anusha Krishnamurthy : 2/05/2018

I still remember like it was yesterday, me heavily pregnant sitting in front of the computer for a Skype interview call from ISB with …

Consultant's Log 8: 5 Qs with Rakesh Bhatia

By Rakesh Bhatia : 30/06/2017

In his 30+ years of work, Rakesh Bhatia has held multiple leadership roles in organisations such as DCM Shriram Ltd., CESC, India Powe…

Consultant's Log 7: 5 Qs with Tulika Majumdar

By Tulika Majumdar : 4/05/2017

Tulika Majumdar has 6+ years of work experience. She studied at IIT, Roorkee followed by a Masters in Science from Stanford University…

Consultant's Log 6: 5 Qs with Verticka Kohli

By Verticka Kohli : 3/04/2017

Verticka is a Leadership and Talent professional with over 11 years of professional experience across India and South East Asia extens…

What are you charging as a Marketing Consultant?

By Flexing It : 24/02/2017

FeeBee, our community-driven fee benchmarking tool, helps independent consultants remove a key source of ambiguity from freelancing an…

How to price your services as a strategy consultant

By Flexing It : 7/02/2017

FeeBee, our community-driven fee benchmarking tool, helps independent consultants remove a key source of ambiguity from freelancing an…

Too much? Too little? How to price your services as an IT consultant

By Anupriya Samanta : 20/12/2016

FeeBee, our community-driven fee benchmarking tool, helps independent consultants remove a key source of ambiguity from freelancing an…

India's Top Tier Freelancers - What They Earn

By Flexing It : 9/08/2016

  In the global sharing economy today, Gen Y, Gen Z, and even veteran professionals are partnering with organizations to create …

So, do you know how to price your services as an Independent Consultant?

By Stuti Sethi : 8/06/2016

  If the answer to the question asked in the title of this piece is no, then you aren't alone. Our recently co…

New Benchmarking Tool FeeBee to Help Consulting Industry Unbundle Costs and Optimize…

By Ranjini Sivaswamy : 13/01/2016

  The future of work is at a cusp of disruption, triggered by the rising number of independent or freelance consultants offering…