Should Startups Hire Consultants?

There seems to be 2 sides to this; someone always says don&#x27;t hire contractors. Another person says yes hire contractors.<p>If you can hire an employee for less than you are paying for an contractor (include your HR time, payroll, taxes, other paperwork) there should be some semblance of a balance.<p>If you hire a Consultant who doesn&#x27;t care about you succeeding; then he is selling his future short. Any good employee or Consultant will be absolutely willing to do his part to see you succeed; as that leads to him succeeding.<p>There are bad employee&#x27;s as well as bad consultants; let&#x27;s not try and make it black and white.

Ha, for a minute I thought you might have come up with a good reason not to hire consultants.<p>One important point is that consultants can be a way to buy a slice of a skill set or experience level that you couldn&#x27;t afford to own outright, in the same way that Berkshire Hathaway benefits from buying slices of companies on the public markets that it couldn&#x27;t own 100%.