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South African here. We tend to use products, integrate systems and do custom dev. There's really no reason to pay crazy salaries because "pretty good" is good e
by richardw 7y ago
South African here. We tend to use products, integrate systems and do custom dev. There's really no reason to pay crazy salaries because "pretty good" is good enough.
When you're competing on the output of developers and the difference between first and second is Facebook and MySpace, get the best you can afford and pay them. You're spending VC money and need the best output as fast as you can get it. Good enough will kill you.
- mikorym 7y ago> We tend to use products, integrate systems and do custom dev. As a young South African, this reality is something of a let down. In the US, it's like you have a country with (if you normalise to mean) 30 cities the size of JHB economically. The access to cutting edge tech jobs is just incomparable. The upside is that if you do break through, your relative success is greater. In the US, someone else is already trying your idea.