Recruiting programmers to your startup

Here are some things I’ve learned over the years about recruiting programmers* to startups. This is a big topic: many of the points I make briefly here could warrant their own blog posts, and I’m sure I’ve omitted a lot.

Chris Dixon

Full Story: http://cdixon.org/2011/12/29/recruiting-programmers-to-your-startup/

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More On Recruiting Programmers To Your Startup

Chris Dixon had an excellent post yesterday titled Recruiting programmers to your startup. The post, and the comments, are full of super useful stuff that every entrepreneur should read carefully.

I sent the link for the post out to the Foundry Group CEO email list and it generated a great discussion thread, including one of the companies sharing their full day interview / evaluation process which includes a four hour coding exercise. Among the feedback was a great short list of four addition things that Niel Robertson, the CEO of Trada (and an amazing programmer in his own right) has learned over the years.

Brad Feld

Full Story: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/12/more-on-recruiting-programmers-to-your-startup.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FeldThoughts+%28Feld+Thoughts%29