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allfou | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you begin to find contracts as a freelancer?

offer your service for free at first. People will pay you anyway (without asking) if you do a great job. Then you get one client, then another one, then another. Increase your price along the way while building your portfolio.

How do you get your first lead even for free? Craigslist or find ways of going to events where people aren't technical at all. It'll come.

There's no magic trick you can't make big money without a network in life.

allfou | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do you hire H1-B workers instead of natives?

You don't like numbers and facts, then let's take it to the next level.

Majority of the Dev community in the San Francisco Bay Area (for example) is of Asian/Indian descent. We're not even talking about foreigners here. Children of immigrants (immigrants who probably came through H1-B) - the second generation, American citizens.

So, bringing people via H1-B actually helps fulfilling "high-level" jobs with American citizens. Does it make sense?

allfou | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do you hire H1-B workers instead of natives?

You're obviously trolling but here is something you could learn:

H1-B = 62'000 Visa allocated per years

Last Oct about 160'000 new jobs where created in the US (270'000 during the month of June for example).

Under Obama (8 years) 9 million jobs were created total, which is above 1 million jobs per year. So, 8 x 62'000 = 496'000 H1-B under Obama. Versus 9 million new jobs in the US...

allfou | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you look for jobs?

Just search for new startups in your area on google. Send them an email directly saying you want to help them and love what they do. It's that simple...
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