San Francisco-based startup AppDirect, which provides software to power online app stores, competes as hard as any company to hire engineers—especially because it’s in the Bay Area, where technical talent is at a premium.
Now AppDirect is trying a new way to lure top software developers. Late last year it announced an incubator program for developers, offering them a chance to work on the AppDirect engineering team for 2 1/2 years while also getting exposure to different parts of the business–legal, human resources, marketing and so on.
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