I live in rural Massachusetts, way too far for a Boston commute. I found that if I really got to know the local market, I could find great local developers --

I live in rural Massachusetts, way too far for a Boston commute. I found that if I really got to know the local market, I could find great local developers -- I actually prefer that to NYC (where I started), where you can find devs, but it's hard to compete with the other companies there. Our strategy was to make our place the absolute best place to work and pay appropriately -- perhaps not all the way to SF market, but at the high-end of our market. Word gets around. We were also aggressive with the local colleges.