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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. Bringing in Steady engineers too early could result in a less competitive product, bringing them in too late could result in instability. So, find Scrappy engineers, hire them, motivate them, keep them happy and keep them challenged.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. Tim did such a great job of hiring the best, brightest people so quickly that our company infrastructure wasn’t keeping up. Our IT group was not able to support all of the new people we hired. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Tim was my right arm at L90.

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