I dunno either. However, a while back I needed to bring a new technician on, and I was out of personal contacts, so I posted to Craigslist. I got a number of responses, and a couple of promising ones.

One of them was the "former senior software engineer" for a major newspaper in the Bay Area. The prospect of bringing on someone like that positively scared the piss out of me. I'm a young guy, my business is doing well in spite of me, and this person would probably be my senior in every way.

So after thinking about it for a day, I contacted him first. (As it turned out, the situation wasn't nearly as unbalanced as I thought.)

So I have no idea what an A, B, or C... player is, but I figure that hiring the best people you can, even if they intimidate you, is a good start.