Comments on: APB for Developers: Make Yourselves Known http://www.startuphouston.com/2008/04/28/apb-for-developers-make-yourselves-known/ Let's Get Started! Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:03:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Josh Tabin http://www.startuphouston.com/2008/04/28/apb-for-developers-make-yourselves-known/comment-page-1/#comment-17930 Josh Tabin Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:50:30 +0000 http://www.startuphouston.com/2008/04/28/apb-for-developers-make-yourselves-known/#comment-17930 Billy, you make some excellent points. There seem to be two different needs: developers as hired guns and developers as co-founders. I am less concerned with the former and more with the latter. I know several people with great ideas that need a developer partner to build the application with them. It takes a leap of faith but the developer businessperson tandem will have the most success IMHO. Billy, you make some excellent points. There seem to be two different needs: developers as hired guns and developers as co-founders. I am less concerned with the former and more with the latter. I know several people with great ideas that need a developer partner to build the application with them. It takes a leap of faith but the developer businessperson tandem will have the most success IMHO.

]]> By: Billy http://www.startuphouston.com/2008/04/28/apb-for-developers-make-yourselves-known/comment-page-1/#comment-17924 Billy Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:02:37 +0000 http://www.startuphouston.com/2008/04/28/apb-for-developers-make-yourselves-known/#comment-17924 The opposite is also true. I know several developers looking for business contacts, but it seems the two groups don't have a lot of overlap. Also, most of the opportunities I run into have unrealistic expectations. Most are paying way too low (and pay is usually the only compensation), or they have impossible requirements. Now being a developer, I have lots of contacts within my own industry. Still opportunities come up that I don't know a good candidate for. That's when I use my network of contacts to find someone. Usually I start at www.linkedin.com, then try the local user's groups (http://php.meetup.com/121/ or http://www.houstonrb.com/, there's others for other languages too). This is usually as far as I have had to go, but from there I'd probably go to an actual recruiter (I do know a few good ones, too). The opposite is also true. I know several developers looking for business contacts, but it seems the two groups don’t have a lot of overlap. Also, most of the opportunities I run into have unrealistic expectations. Most are paying way too low (and pay is usually the only compensation), or they have impossible requirements.

Now being a developer, I have lots of contacts within my own industry. Still opportunities come up that I don’t know a good candidate for. That’s when I use my network of contacts to find someone. Usually I start at http://www.linkedin.com, then try the local user’s groups (http://php.meetup.com/121/ or http://www.houstonrb.com/, there’s others for other languages too). This is usually as far as I have had to go, but from there I’d probably go to an actual recruiter (I do know a few good ones, too).

]]> By: Peter http://www.startuphouston.com/2008/04/28/apb-for-developers-make-yourselves-known/comment-page-1/#comment-17922 Peter Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:17:28 +0000 http://www.startuphouston.com/2008/04/28/apb-for-developers-make-yourselves-known/#comment-17922 How about a former developer, now into tech support engineering and other human-oriented tasks? :) How about a former developer, now into tech support engineering and other human-oriented tasks? :)

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