Re:Ask YC: How can you recruit and reward non-founder progra...
by patio11 on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @08:29AM
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1) Achieve revenues.
2) Hire freelancers for well-defined specific tasks targeted at increasing revenues, aiming at the low-hanging fruit first.
3) Repeat until you have your own private island.
This works for other skilled workers besides programmers, too. I don't make nearly enough from BCC to hire my writer full time (she has a masters degree and has commitments that make full time impossible at any price) but I get an awful lot of bang out of $100 per month.
2) Hire freelancers for well-defined specific tasks targeted at increasing revenues, aiming at the low-hanging fruit first.
3) Repeat until you have your own private island.
This works for other skilled workers besides programmers, too. I don't make nearly enough from BCC to hire my writer full time (she has a masters degree and has commitments that make full time impossible at any price) but I get an awful lot of bang out of $100 per month.