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Women can now have it all!

By Flexing It : 7/03/2017

Women and long, successful professional careers – the two seem almost oxymoronic when seen in the context of the majority of I...

Mary Meeker Internet Trends 2016 – What it tells us about the freelance economy wi...

By Chandrika Pasricha : 21/11/2016

The 2015 edition of the Internet Trends Report published by Mary Meeker/Kleiner Perkins had a full section on how technolo...

In the world of ESOPs have employment arrangements gone from commitments to options?

By Prashant Vijay : 21/11/2016

Flipkart lands itself on the front-page of the business page yet again for something negative. This time, they defer joining dates f...

How my first job on Wall Street as a programmer trained me to get shit done

By Prashant Vijay : 21/11/2016

Many moons ago, I was a bright-eyed programmer in his first job. I worked at a major bulge-bracket investment bank. I was an “...

It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times… Thoughts on Startup Funding i...

By Prashant Vijay : 21/11/2016

We live in interesting times. The Indian startup world is going through its next evolution, and it brings a whole new lexicon. ...

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

By Stuti Sethi : 8/06/2016

So, do you know how to price your services as an Independent Consultant? If the answer to the question asked in the tit...

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...

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 e-lance 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 organisations find i...

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 organisations to creat...

The Big Four... Trends That Are Transforming the Freelance World

By Chandrika Pasricha : 28/07/2016

Amidst all the noise around rising and falling unemployment, expected hiring activity and raises p...

When less is more

By Flexing It : 18/07/2016

  Our data shows that close to 50% of the projects delivered by independent consultants and business freelancers span less tha...

TIASG2016: 2 days of perspective

By Rohit Mathur : 18/04/2016

For a newbie to the start up world (read me), the Tech in Asia conference in Singapore (12–13 April) proved to be an orientati...

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-hous...

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 tha...

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 factor...

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 ...

Flexing It™ Startup Survey Reveals an Untapped Talent Resource.

By Flexing It : 23/02/2016

In a recent survey conducted by Flexing It™ among more than 50 startups, while 58% said independent consultants were requ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Benchmarking Tool FeeBee to Help Consulting Industry Unbundle Costs and Optimi...

By Ranjini Sivaswamy : 13/01/2016

  The consulting industry is at a cusp of disruption, triggered by the rising number of independent or freelance consultants o...

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...

The Million Dollar Question – What to Charge as a Consultant?

By Gauri Vasudeva : 22/01/2015

A lot of us who are new to working independently face the problem of not knowing exactly what to charge, and may often lose projects...

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 Po...

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 Universi...

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 exte...

Consultant's Log 5: 5 Qs with Bhargavi Vijaykumar

By Bhargavi Vijaykumar : 10/03/2017

Bhargavi is a management consultant and a freelance strategist with 10 years of domain experience. She now works with seed funded / ...

Consultant's Log 4: 5 Qs with Joydip Gupta

By Joydip Gupta : 27/01/2017

Joydip Gupta has over 20 years of experience in Technology sector in USA, Singapore and India. He has hands-on experience in strateg...

Consultant's Log 3: 5 Qs with Masroor Lodi

By Masroor Lodi : 9/01/2017

Co-Founder and Director at The Entrepreneurship School, Masroor Lodi is a serial entrepreneur with significant partnerships in mult...