2009/1/23 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
I'm curious, how did that happen exactly? You didn't get the office that long ago and most of the recent hires have been planned a fair amount of time in advance.
Growth can be unpredictable for a number of reasons - changing assumptions about capacity needs, revenue, etc.; the normal unpredictable factors in any hiring process, etc. This is all expected and normal for an organization that was, last year, essentially in start-up mode. The Stanton usability grant, specifically, was not a planned or anticipated opportunity: we always expected that we'd be doing significant work in that area, but we were lucky to find a funder whose goals were lined up with ours to allow this to happen on a larger scale and sooner than we expected.