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Aks HN: What's the right process for context transfer between co-founders

We are an year-old pre-seed startup building in the AI space. I lead sales/bd and my co-founder leads product. One of the biggest source of tension between us is sharing of context.We consciously chose our product build strategy as — build a basic MVP, get continous customer feedback and iterate the product based on that. This means there is tons of customer feedback, input, and discovery...

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I don't think the pay will be the same, you can be the best paymaster but you should also look at local wage benchmarks and stay within ballpark.
Agreed but will you be wiling to put in their additional oversight (at least in the beginning)for more cost effective labor and potentially more work output (if effective systems are in place and there is good oversight).

Note that the same devs are able to compete with their US peers in companies like Google, MS etc. who have local presence.

I totally relate to your challenges. But things have changed a lot of now. Developers are more exposed to product development environment and while they will still need to understand the US business culture there is a far greater willingness to learn. When I look at my friends who did their education in India but now working here in the US and compare them with their peers in India, I don't see a difference in skills, only a lack of exposure.

Ask HN: If you are fully/partially remote, would you hire devs in India?

There is so much talk around companies going permanently remote. If that is really the case then what's the need to compete for talent in the Silicon Valley? Keeping aside the challenges due to different time zones, if a person's skill can be validated would you hire developers in India, or for that matter any other country?

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There is a bug with the tool, I have list data in this format (modified data for privacy)

abc, The Institue of

xyz, The school of

nbc2, The college of

jor5, School of

and if I try to extract just the name of the person it gives me the following

abc

xyz

nbc

jor

It's missing the numbers