It's very possible they could have turned into something great and we were cutting losses too soon. That said, I have fairly high expectations and expect people to be motivated, tenacious and smart. We have such a broad spectrum of what we do (in a nutshell: infosec and data mining), it's difficult to simply train people for the myriad of scenarios they might encounter. This year I'll be stepping up my recruiting from the infosec community directly, up to now I've focused on polyglot devs with a background in security & web.