Patrick McKenzie on Hiring Awesome Developers and Launching Businesses (Podcast 017)

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Episode 017 with Patrick McKenzie of StarFighters.io. Patrick made the leap from grinding it out as a white-collar worker in Japan to being an entrepreneur by solo-shipping two SaaS products. In that journey, he also has become one of the top contributors at sites like Hackernews. Today Patrick is Co-Founder and CEO of Starfighters.io which matches large employers to talented developers in a unique way which you’ll hear about in the episode.

In this episode:

• How he built and ultimately sold a software business that helps teachers create bingo cards for the classroom.
• Getting past the chicken or egg problem in match making or marketplace based businesses.
• The best way to find a quality developer and how much you should expect to pay them.
• What to do when you can’t afford the $20,000 fee needed to develop your software and more.

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Mentioned In this Show

• http://www.starfighters.io/
• http://www.kalzumeus.com/
• https://twitter.com/patio11
• http://www.makandra.de/
• http://mixergy.com/interviews/patrick-mckenzie-interview/

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