Becoming a Consilience Ventures expert makes freelancing work

Consilience Ventures offers freelancers with 20 years of experience a new and exciting way to get rewarded for their work. Let’s find out more.

Working for yourself isn’t easy. The challenges you face include finding clients, pricing your services correctly and, of course, actually doing the work.

If you’re a freelancer who works primarily with startups, there is another challenge — sweat equity. To save valuable cash, startups may offer you equity in the business as payment for your work. This is an exciting prospect, but it’s also a risk. How do you know that your equity is actually going to be worth anything? Why should you take the gamble on someone else’s success?

At Consilience Ventures, we’ve created something new — an ecosystem that allows Experts to work with startups with far less risk — where clients who need your skills are waiting for you; where you set your prices and workload. That’s the only way for you to be compensated for the value you create for startups.

In this article, I’ll explain how the Consilience Ventures model makes Experts’ life more effective and more rewarding. If it resonates with you, you can sign up to join.

How it works

You need to be invited to become a Consilience Ventures expert, but if you have the skills and experience to be accepted by our panel, here’s what you can expect:

Consilience Ventures is an ecosystem linking early-stage startups, investors and expert practitioners. Our experts have the skills that startups need to scale quickly. They are CFOs, CTOs, salespeople, marketers, accountants, lawyers, business strategists and much more. If a startup in our ecosystem needs your services, they’ll get in touch and you can reach an agreement on deliverables.

The crucial difference is that instead of being paid in cash or sweat equity in the traditional way, you receive CVDS as payment for your services. CVDS is the currency of the Consilience Ventures ecosystem — a tradeable token that represents the value of the whole carefully selected startup portfolio. You can collect and trade your CVDS, which will rise in value as the CV portfolio’s value increases. In time, you will receive cash from any startup exit proportionally to the amount of CVDS you own.

Here are three reasons why our alternative model represents an exciting opportunity for Experts who want to reconcile what they earn with the value they create.

1 — Sweat equity with less risk

When you receive CVDS as payment for your time and expertise, you’re receiving startup equity. However, rather than equity solely in the startup you’re working with, it’s equity in our entire portfolio of startups.

This greatly reduces the risk associated with traditional sweat equity — that the startup you work with could go out of business (through no fault of yours) before you can realise your equity. With Consilience Ventures, your risk is diversified. To gain a return on your investment of time and expertise, the value of the portfolio has to grow.

2 — You become an investor

When you receive CVDS, you own a share of the Consilience Ventures portfolio. You are now an investor in our ecosystem of startups. You have the option to keep hold of your CVDS or exchange them for cash further down the line. This is a dramatic improvement over the more prevalent startup accelerator model, where experts and advisors take a back seat to investors.

If you hold on to your tokens, you can see the benefit of the value you provide to our startups. The value of your holding increases with the startups’ valuations.

3 — Grow your network

When you join Consilience Ventures’ network, you can begin professional relationships with high-quality connections that can help you grow your career. As part of our network, you can meet startup founders, high-calibre investors, as well as other experts.

The breadth of knowledge among our experts is considerable. Investors are frequently experts as well. We have CTOs and CFOs in our expert network. And the best thing? Thanks to the unique way we exchange portfolio equity for time and expertise, each expert owns a stake in the ecosystem’s success.

The ecosystem’s transparency cultivates knowledge sharing inside the network, providing valuable opportunities for learning and professional growth, both invaluable for freelancers. Plus, we can help you avoid those famine or feast periods so common when you work for yourself.

Work with us

At Consilience Ventures, we are creating a new way to work — and we’re always recruiting!

Visit our site today or complete our experts questionnaire. It could be the best step you ever take in your business.