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Retaining Startup Engineers

• July 25th, 2010
• Posted in My Experience . My Startup

In my previous post I focused on the key issues to think about when recruiting a startup engineer.  In this post I’d like to shift focus on how to keep them. Engineers jump ship early for various reasons, its usually a combination of the following three: instability in management, unclear path to an exit, and work that [ READ MORE ]

Recruiting Startup Engineers

• July 18th, 2010
• Posted in My Experience . My Startup

With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers.  People constantly ask if I know people, where to find the so-called ’startup-engineers’, or even where the can find someone like me. Here are some things to think about for those on the recruiting side: 1. When to start [ READ MORE ]