Ask HN: Anyone based in EU remotely contracting with US clients?

9 pointslabarilem3 comments

Has anyone managed to get into contracting with US clients while being physically based in EU?

1. I think contracting should be easier than employing wrt bureaucracy and other regulations (e.g. no visas and the likes).

2. Timezone might be an issue?

3. What about rates? I guess US companies would prefer US contractors when they have the same rate as EU contractors?

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Contracting is mostly a matter of relationships.

Contracting with US companies from the EU will be easier or harder depending on the number of relationships you have with potential clients and the strength of those relationships.

It will also depend on specific market conditions of course.

And the overall economic climate.

Good luck.

Would agencies help getting started with foreign relationships? I don't really think so, I mean it's their job. But it might be a different way to get contracts.

Different ways of getting contracts are unlikely to work.

For example, an agency’s clients are the agency’s clients.

They are not your clients.

The agency is your client.

And you are a fungible commodity.

There is no easy button.

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