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How would companies in Europe go about finding new team members from Asia? What would you recommend?
You need to know someone in Asia (obviously). Ideally you've worked with them before, but if you got a contact in some other fashion, obviously you need to interview /talk to them, look at their code (I strongly suggest this), read their blogs etc, just the same as you would if you were hiring them for your startup in the USA/Europe. If anyone is looking for good developers (no PHP folks, but say, RoR, Django, Java,…
If if you were a headhunter they'd have to pay you 20%. But as a developer, they'll have to pay you 100% of your salary. ;p