From experience, part time / contractors for early stage startups are usually counterproductive. They just won’t be committed, loyal, and giving 120%, while incurring massive management overhead. Don’t believe I’ve ever seen a success story.

Proper full time employees or don’t hire at all.

not quite seeing the massive management overhead

They can bury me deep, but I always grow back.

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yes esp if hiring senior contractors 

if you have to train, sure

but if you have clearly delineated specs and projects, a senior contractor can kill it. w/o all the obligations of taking on an expensive FTE.