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Ask HN: How to fix Startup Britain?
Yesterday the UK Government launched a new web initiative called startupbritain.org. The premise of the site is to "...provide everything you need to know about start up, in one place".
On the surface this appears to be a site offering useful information. However dig a little deeper and as one prominent blogger puts it "...StartUpBritain is nothing more than a government backed link farm" http://postdesk.com/debates/why-startup-britain-is-nothing-more-than-a-government-backed-link-farm/
How very disappointing and appallingly executed this promising initiative has been. Many potential entrepreneurs and businesses have come away with a bad taste in their mouth - but this need not be the case.
As entrepreneurs shouldn't we try and fix problems? Clearly there is demand for some kind of British focused start up web site. Couldn't we borrow principles from US sites like Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com), et al. and give entrepreneurs a suitable starting point - driven by a community?
Therefore why not make some suggestions and open up a debate.
Startup Britain needs your ideas... and why not let us present the best of these to Mr Cameron?
- oceanician 16y agoThere was a site called Jedi Britain earlier....or maybe it was called JFDI Britain. Liked that more. I think the hard part is finding collaborators. I'd lilke to see more side-project startups, with multiple collaborators. Yes, you can do it on your own. But maybe it's viable as a sideproject until it takes off if there's a few of you?
- emson 16y agoThanks for the comment. I was thinking that it would be useful to create a site where companies could pledge a small amount of help, or entrepreneurs could post their top 5 tips? Anyone else have any interesting ideas?