Title: I guess it was bound to happen eventually..and i’ve just been lucky.<p>But after 10yrs of consulting.. I finally have my first major deadbeat client!<p>long story short..<p>I started smelling something bad, when they decided to suddenly fire their main backend guy ( just 1week before we would release their MVP which they wanted asap ) and without this dev, we could not continue fwd.
This was the same time our invoice became overdue.<p>When I asked what happened, they said that without any notice, their main investor pulled out and that they were going to work on some new financial docs to present to them for reconsideration…and that i should be patient and wait - as the company is now downsizing.<p>When I requested a small 5k “good-faith” payment..or that i would pursue “other” paths,
their COO ( my main point of contact ) called me to say she too was not getting paid, but that she was positive, and that i should just be patient.<p>some details:<p>1 - been working with the client for the past 6-months.<p>2 - they’ve been paying us on time for the last 4.5-months.<p>3 - they love our work. no issues there.<p>4 - they had a seed round 2-yrs ago for 3.5M ( which i guess they burned already )<p>What kind of options do i have?<p>What tactics have worked for you?<p>*I want to avoid a long drawn out process ( since i just blew all my extra savings on paying my in-house devs )<p>thanks!
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