Was brought into a meeting with a client that we had done some small time work for. He pulled up a major brand name e-commerce website on his desktop as an example of what he was looking for his upstart clothing business…
Client: If you can just get us a website, pretty much exactly like this, selling maybe 100-150 products at launch and submitted to all the top search engines that would be great!/p>
Me: Ok, what’s your budget?
Client: Well, we can’t pay you in money, but we could pay you in an ownership stake in the company, like stock.
Me: But the company doesn’t exist yet…
Client: It will when you complete the site.