Heuristic: if you have to ask for partial payment upfront to derisk a gig, it's almost certainly a bad gig
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Correct. I never like to for my own motivation, but have occasionally had to.
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Also unrelated: when you have to ask for cash-flow reasons or they want to make you take for commitment reasons
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I think it frames the nature of the arrangement; all the people I know who do project work take ~30-50% up front
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