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Episode 8 - Finding the Right Development Talent, Building Highly Functional Development Teams - with Andy Abbott

Feb 12, 20171 hr 5 minEp. 8
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Episode description

In this episode we look at what it takes to grow, build and retain a development team and how software developers identify product opportunities in the marketplace. Our guest Andy Abbott (@asabbott) is technology entrepreneur in Chicago who has co-founded multiple startups including BookedOut ,which was acquired this past fall the Chicago based firm Shiftgig. Andy is also the founder of the Chicago .NET Developers group (http://www.chicagodev.net).

Andy talks about his latest project Heretik (heretik.io) and how him and his team were able to identify opportunity in the marketplace and also shares his experiences of building out software teams for startups and enterprise firms.

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