Hiring good tech people: Where to start?

Paul Nickelsberg told a room full of attendees at this week's Innovation Unconference in Boston that he’s on the prowl for good tech people to add to his firm’s electronic product design team.
“Just good?” inquired one of the session’s facilitators. 
Nickelsberg, president of Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting in Maynard, Mass., said he certainly wouldn't turn away excellent talent -- “but I’ll take good.”
Such is the