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
• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471030

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.

• http://www.docracy.com/doc/showalltagged?tag=freelance

• http://tos-dr.info/

• https://www.duedil.com

Job markets

• oDesk is the world’s largest and fastest-growing online workplace, ranked #1 by annual contractor earnings.

• Freelancer.com is the world's largest outsourcing marketplace,

empowering entrepreneurs & small businesses worldwide.

• • http://www.freelancer.com/u/milkmiruku.html
  • http://www.freelancer.com/jobs/Drupal/
  • http://www.freelancer.com/jobs/Wordpress/

• stackoverflow: Careers 2.0

• XING
  • Search results for: edinburgh

• Mechanical Turk
• http://crowdflower.com/channel/contributor/

• https://www.elance.com/
• http://www.vworker.com/

Marketing

• Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

• http://samuelmullen.com/2012/08/the-introverts-networking-survival-guide/

Gumtree

• http://www.gumtree.com/telecoms-computer-services/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/tuition-lessons/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/computing-it-jobs/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/marketing-jobs/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/media-design-creative-jobs/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/volunteer-charity-work-jobs/edinburgh

• http://www.gumtree.com/work-wanted/edinburgh
• http://www.gumtree.com/gumtree-fun/edinburgh

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/

Contract

• http://blog.samuellevy.com/index.php?p=post&id=21

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/

• http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/good-riddance-paypal/ - don't use paypal

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

• http://sivers.org/delegate/

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
• http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/07/traction-mistakes.html

• https://brandyourself.com/

• http://cluetrain.com/

• What’s the effect on requirements engineering when switching from Scrum to KanbanScrum & technical debt

• http://kkovacs.eu/free-project-management-template-mil-std-498

• http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators
• http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
• http://appbot.co/blog/lessons-learned-launching-a-minimum-viable-product

Social

• http://ircstartups.pbworks.com/
• http://dribbble.com/

• http://themeforest.net/
• http://activeden.net/

Other

• https://leanpub.com/freelancedeveloperbook

• http://voicebunny.com/