Investing in the developer #community to grow your company
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This is a story of investing in skills and #development with a twist: instead of your own skills, this is a story of investing in other people’s skills. Back in 2010, I was asked by my current freelance client if I wanted to join him in creating a company in the Philippines. I would be the first employee and due to some circumstances (and some goading from my future wife), I made a leap of faith and agreed.For a couple of months, there were only two of us in the company working on client projects. I was learning the ropes as well since I was focused on frontend before, but now I needed to ramp up my skills to also cover the backend. My boss had a vision, he expected to double our numbers every year. That meant 4 people in 2011, 8 in 2012 , sixteen in 2013 etc. When I heard of his vision, (...)