During an enlightening conversation with another Boulder entrepreneur yesterday we had a short side conversation that concisely exemplified a concept we're all familiar with, but often get wrong when hiring. In my mind, at the highest level of role characteristics abstraction there are two categories of positions, "

Gnip is growing, so I'm face-to-face with the beast that is hiring. Finding smart, compelling, passionate, committed, persistent people is hard. Assuming you find one (big assumption), testing your thesis is the big gamble. Even if you do a half-dozen face to face interviews, some "try before