Business

General

• Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing)
• First month freelancing.
• Ask HN: How do you sell yourself as a new freelancer to clients?
• Rethink your Startup Website: Make a Net, not a Funnel
• http://mrooney.github.com/blog/2012/07/01/freelancing-a-6-month-retrospective/#content

Job markets

• Careers 2.0
• oDesk
• http://www.freelancer.com/

Estimation

• http://civicactions.com/estimating-worksheet
• http://london2011.drupal.org/bofsession/drupal-estimating-techniques
• http://www.lullabot.com/articles/art-estimation
• http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/books/1-agile-estimating-and-planning
• http://dev.nodeone.se/node/561

• http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pricing-strategy-for-creatives/

Legalities

• How to: register a company in the UK

• Company Registration - Companies House

• Docracy - Open Legal Documents
• http://www.businessinsider.com/document-center - american

• A summary of the Data Protection Act 1998
• ICO: Need to notify under the Data Protection Act?

• TL;DRLegal (Beta) -

Lookup any software license shortly summarized in plain English.

Money

• http://www.invoicejournal.com/

Payment

• https://gocardless.com/ - 1% per transaction up to a maximum of £2.00
• http://simplifiedecommerce.com/

• Authorize.Net - Payment Gateway

• Google Checkout

• https://www.gittip.com/

Tax

• Class 2 National Insurance contributions

Funding

• Funding Scotland - Signposting funding opportunities for Charities, Community Groups and Businesses around Scotland.

• Independent Students' Bursary (ISB)

Trading

• Trading Standards - Fair Trading advice for businesses

Hiring

• Hiring your first employee (a UK guide)
• How I hire writers
• http://ryancarson.com/post/26412233938/hiring-your-first-employee
• http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/

• Velocity 2010 - Adam Jacob on DevOps

Ideas and other

• Ask HN: Is a starting an enterprise software startup worth the hassle?
• Don't Follow Your Passion: A Smarter Way to Find a Product to Sell
• Making Sense of Minimum Viable Products
• Finding Your Voice With the Media: How to Pitch a Journalist

• Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?
• Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

• http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/1733220/ask-slashdot-documenting-scattered-sites-and-systems

• http://www.learningjar.com/publishedSkill?learningPathId=4f960132e4b02d171fd681e1
• http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/gamification-the-art-of-attracting-and-k/240003409

• https://brandyourself.com/