Some advice from the street. Love jobs can kill your start up.
Definition
Love Job : Engaging friends or colleagues to perform specific, crucial tasks which one would normally pay for.
Through our journey as entrepreneurs we’ve engaged the help of friends, colleagues, professionals. In this category fall tasks like legal advice, design, advertising. They’re always happy to help, but when it’s delivery time, they got caught up, their boss was on their back, their dog died…
They didn’t make time because they weren’t getting paid. We were low on their priority list. Love Jobs are part of entrepreneurship and bootstrapping. You should and will use them. But if something is vital and you can afford it, it might be best to pay for getting it done and meeting your timeline.
Good point made. Love jobs hurt friendships too. Paying friends as one can afford as a start-up also shows that one respects their time and talent. Yes, money would also bring in accountability.
farrukh