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"The bottom line is this: Not every talented programmer in the world is from a city with “Silicon” in its nickname. But many of those programmers would love to live in one."

This makes tons of sense. Apart from Forrst and GitHub (and Dribble), good old fashioned 1st or 2nd degree connections can be gold in non-coastal centers for tech and design talent. My co-founder is located in Pittsburgh and has begun to see lots of interest from other founders who want to key into the scene there (CMU, etc) and he is very happy to help, because well, it's cool to help startups, but also it's a forcing function for him to engage with top talent in his own backyard.

I'm willing to bet if most of us went into our contacts we would find a "hub" like my co-founder in cities like Pittsburgh, Austin, places in upstate NY, etc, who would be keen to help out.

PS: Do people find the job board at Dribbble useful?