1. Imagine that you are the founder of a company and need help setting up Quick Books for your company. Quick Books is an accounting and bookkeeping platform for small businesses. Search Up work and Guru for Quick Books freelancers. Select the one that you think represents the best combination of expertise, experience, and cost. Summarize the key attributes of the person you selected.

2. To what degree is it appropriate or inappropriate to hire freelancers to fulfill some of the core competencies of a business?

3. Make a bullet-point list of the advantages of hiring freelancers to do short-term projects for a start-up?

4. In what ways do you believe a freelancer could become a partner of a company rather than an arms-length independent contractor?