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Re:10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire by jamesaguilar on Sunday December 12, 2010 @05:43PM (#1998334)
Laziness is an important positive quality in a business that already has too much to do. Teaching kids without the disposition or inclination to learn programming for themselves on the off chance a diamond in the rough might be found is not a good business proposition. There's a reason why no one does it. You are far better off just doing less.
Re:10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire by rhizome on Sunday December 12, 2010 @06:59PM (#1998563)
That would be an interesting kind of conservation-minded business: just small enough. Why have a 20 person company doing a variety of things mediocre than a 5 person company doing one or a few things very well? There are larger scale versions of this in the AAA game developer world as the studio model has taken hold.