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contract

"Send me your standard contract or the company I consult through has an MSA and we'll attach my mini-proposal as a SOW."

sample contract

Varies widely based on your locality. In Japan it's literally shorter than this post is. In the US most of the ones I've seen are 2~3 pages long and most explicit about IP assignment, for the obvious reason.

resume

I'm sufficiently well-known to decisionmakers at my clients that the conversation is generally more about what I can do for them than where I went to school or what the exact name of my previous employers were.

city

I live in Ogaki but work across Japan, the US, and (very occasionally) Europe.

big biz vs. startups

Software companies with $10 to $50 million in revenue is sort of the sweet spot for me: ability to pay like megacorps, agility/relative-lack-of-process-BS akin to startups.

on-site or remote

First engagements are probably 90% on-site, existing relationships closer to 50/50.



Thanks in particular for this! A perspective from Japan can be hard to come by and (as others will observe) tends to be different than elsewhere.




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