With hundreds of technology companies in the area, skilled workers with Internet or computer-programming experience are in short supply. Thus, desperate recruiters besieged Productopians with e-mails and phone calls almost immediately. No sweat, whatsoever. Love decided to move back to his native Colorado and become a marketing director at Circadence Corp., a Boulder-based video game company. It s still very hard to find quality people in the entire space, he said.
People can pretty much pick and choose what they want to do.
There is a sense, however, that the party is over. Stock options the wampum of the dot-com explosion have become less attractive than a steady paycheck, and few Internet workers now expect to retire as multimillionaires at age 40. Making enormous amounts of money for doing nothing has never made sense. There s a solid business here for people who have solid business models, he added. A lot of people are going to more stable companies than startups because stability is a wonderful thing.