Filling the roster of your development team is a lot like being the GM of a small market baseball team. You can’t compete with the for profit companies on salary. So, you have to field a team with the best players available in your price range. But that doesn’t mean you can’t field a winning team.
So, how do you get quality people at a discount?  First, if you’ve never read the book Moneyball by Michael Lewis, I recommend starting there. It follows the Oakland A’s baseball team as Lewis tries to …