designers and percentages

Hi John,

I am a student of your from years ago............I have your book, I also have a
successful
online business. We are designing a new product that is much more complicated
than our
prior ones - and will require us to hire an engineer.

I know you do not like hiring people who are friends but this person is
qualified and we
know what we want, and what our customers want.................

My question is this: My partner and I have the product pretty much designed, it
is made
up of 7 parts all of which we are having made in India by a vendor we have a
very good
relationship with. We want our friend to work the parts into Cad drawings,
design with us
all the details, maybe help with packaging. We can not afford to pay upfront,
what would
you say is a reasonable percent of the profits of each sale would go to him to
pay for his
time? Since he has not done freelance work before he can not give us a
quote...............

Any help or quidance would be appreciated.
Sincerely Susan

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