Only problem was, I couldn't quite afford an employee yet. By then I had been
working a couple years by myself, earning good profits in the $200K range but it
was based on just one or two sales a year, and each sale took 6-12 months to
finalize. With so few customers I could easily go a year without sales, I
feared, so had to set aside my profits to cover that. And if I were going to
hire someone, I'd really want six months or a year's payroll set aside for them
as well. I just couldn't afford that yet.
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Building a Software Company: How to hire an idiot
Wow, I remember how idealistic I was when I was about to bring on my first
employee! After dealing with bad bosses over my career, after doing a whole lot
of thinking about how I was going to be a great boss, and after doing a whole
lot of reading about how to hire effective people, I was really looking forward
to it. I was going to:
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Assembla Blog | The number one developer qualification: Can build from scratch
If I ask a candidate "have you ever designed and built a piece of software by yourself", and they respond enthusiastically with a description of the project, then it is very likely they will succeed in a trial. If not, then there is some probability that they lack the ability to design software. However, it is almost certain that they lack the creative joy that comes from laying down whatever kind of code you want to lay down, and the rush that comes from conjuring something out of formless bits.
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