I realize that - I was being sarcastic. If someone is a great coder but didn't finish the sixth grade, I'd love to talk with them. But in all honesty, there is definitely an entrepreneurial mindset present at Stanford that is lacking at many other top schools. I wish more of my friends at Berkeley wanted to take the plunge to go at it on their own. Big names and comfortable salaries entice too many recent grads -it almost happened to me.

Craigslist also hasn't been the best for me. It's not that there aren't good people, its just that you get inundated with literally hundreds of replies. It's tough to sort through the riff raff.

I've had better luck getting help through entrepeneurship groups like SVASE, because at least the people there truly want to be a part of something rather than earn a few bucks as contract labor. Again, I realize there are good people on Craigslist, but I've learned the hardway that one bad hiring decision while your product is in development can grind you to a halt. It's all about boosting the mean and decreasing the standard deviation of your applicants; picking out a diamond in the rough is hard.