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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

I wouldn’t say it’s 1999 or even 2007, but it certainly has turned around. I’ll leave that for another discussion as the inquiry that I keep getting is more about local talent than offshore talent. One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? And funny enough, I wrote this post this morning and had it scheduled to come out the next morning.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

socalTECH

It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. How Ranker came about, is I love to make lists.

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