Hiring: Freelance business reporter

• You can write in a fun, engaging style
• You have experience working as a reporter covering business or startups
• You’re awesome at scrappy online research and know how to dig beyond the obvious sources
• You’re seasoned with first-person interviews: navigating phone conversations, helping sources feel comfortable, and getting answers to tough questions
• You’re creative and enjoy finding unique angles for each story
• You’re good at sorting through information and pulling out the important pieces, then weaving it into a story

• You’re comfortable with the metrics and acronyms in the startup space, for example: churn, SaaS, equity, ARR
• You enjoy being part of a small, scrappy team that’s building a business from scratch
• You’re a problem-solver who suggests solutions alongside pointing out problems
• You get just as excited (or more!) about a company that bootstrapped to a $2 million sale compared with one that raised VC and sold for $200 million
• You double-check your work, turn in clean copy, and care highly about accuracy
• Your work is upheld by journalistic ethics

You’ll write stories about online businesses that have sold for 6, 7 and 8 figures, spotlighting companies and founders the world might not otherwise learn from.

Post length: Around 600 words, though some go longer if the story is interesting and some are shorter if we don’t have many details. We prefer anecdotal or creative leads.

Assignments: We’ll assign companies for you to cover. No need to pitch us ideas.

Interviews: These are one-interview stories. We usually provide a survey form the founder has filled out, and you follow up with the founder with questions to fill any gaps. You’re welcome to conduct that interview via email, phone or whatever method works for you and the founder.

Research: We typically provide a list of resources as a starting point, and we expect you to look around for other sources as well.

Headlines & data: We ask you to suggest headlines and metadata, and we’ll provide guidance for writing them. We also ask you to add to our database any additional information you discover through your reporting.

Edits: We prefer to have one round of edits, though some stories require more.

Tools: We collaborate with writers via track changes in Google Docs and assign stories via ClickUp.

Examples of the types of stories you’ll write:

• How e-commerce fitness brand Beast Gear built a loyal fan base selling on Amazon
• After collecting $1.5 billion in donations, revolutionary Txt2Give sells for 2.1x revenue
• This blogger’s recipe site had all the ingredients for a $200K sale
• How Brian Dean sold Backlinko, with 500K monthly visitors, to Semrush
• Wordle’s founder built the game for his partner, never expecting millions of players
• This teacher built a student feedback tool and hit $55K MRR in just 2 years
• This founder turned a birthday present into a viral business and sold it 3 years later
• Julie Mathers aimed to raise capital for her sustainable retain business. Instead, she got an acquisition offer

This is a remote position on a freelance basis. Work whenever you want and wherever you want, so long as you do the job well.

We’re looking for a candidate who can submit 4 posts per month, about one each week. We’re flexible on cadence; for example, if you’d prefer to submit four posts at the beginning of each month, that works, too.

Monthly compensation (4 posts): $1,300

Our goal with this structure is to bake in reliability and consistency for you and for us.