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Do I trust these founders with this market?(soundboy.tumblr.com)
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Looking for a young Mark Cuban.
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by ian 15y ago
I'm not looking for a machine to summarise text for me. I'm looking for a human to help me become a better writer. Have you seen any examples of the latter?
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TL;DR as a service?(soundboy.tumblr.com)
7 points by ian 15y ago|3 comments
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What Muhammad Ali can teach fighters everywhere.(soundboy.tumblr.com)
6 points by ian 15y ago|0 comments
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One exciting thing about having two internets(soundboy.tumblr.com)
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Same time, online. On building Synchronous Social Services(soundboy.tumblr.com)
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by ian 15y ago
Sean - thanks very much for stepping in and for the suggestions. We can send some people along to the careers fair today but have also fliered over the college. In general Imperial Careers have not been very responsive so perhaps there's a
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by ian 15y ago
look forward to hopefully meeting you on sunday and would love any feedback you have on how it goes for you. I think the idea of a central list is a good one, and others have suggested that too.
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by ian 15y ago
We are, and have contacted a large number of list moderators for careers/CS/entrepreneurship etc. I'll double check if we have reached out to that one. Thanks
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by ian 15y ago
Great feedback, thanks. I think some kind of on campus event is the next step and I love the idea of making it about product demos not standard booths.
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Silicon Roundabout Lures US Talent(wired.co.uk)
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by ian 15y ago
I'd be curious to hear how you found the last event? Our goal was that all the start-up booths would be staffed by developers at the start-ups, so you'd be able to find out what the culture and experience of their start-up was like, directl
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by ian 15y ago
Good feedback. We are distributing a document to all who register with more details on each company & their roles prior to the event.
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by ian 15y ago
For this event, all the start-ups are London based, but there's no reason this couldn't be replicated nicely at Nottingham and other emerging UK start-up hubs
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by ian 15y ago
will do, thanks
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by ian 15y ago
I think many of the current registrants (of which there are thousands) are people who are 1-5 years into their career post uni and are realising they maybe went in the wrong direction by joining a bank/microsoft etc. So we're actually doing
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by ian 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We'll consider adding a list of all available jobs, that's a good idea. Re Leeds - how did your friend who is coming hear about the event? Are there email lists that we should have targeted that we didn't?
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by ian 15y ago
what could we do in the next 3 days to really crank up awareness at UCL? We have posters, fliers and can send someone from Songkick or another start-up down to speak about the event and the start-ups that will be represented. Thanks!
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by ian 15y ago
I think we'll start looking into it. Should be possible. Maybe create a rota scheme where a couple of founders staff each table which would allow us to hit hundreds of milkround events over a year.
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by ian 15y ago
These are all great points. On a) perhaps we need to use the milkroundabout brand to start sponsoring stuff during the year, similar to how the larger corporations do. On d) I totally agree with that. My main hack around that has been to tr
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by ian 15y ago
We've hit quite a few entrepreneur societies but not really student unions. We'll look into that. Thanks.
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by ian 15y ago
Paid summer internships is a smart point. Many of the companies exhibiting at the event are keen to having summer tech interns, and perhaps if we packaged that up better we'd get more engagement from university tutors. Maybe we should creat
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by ian 15y ago
We've reached out to a ton of university career services and CS & engineering departments. Some have been very helpful, for example the team at Queen Mary have been amazing and probably 50% of their CS students are coming down. But many
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by ian 15y ago
We have set up a twitter about the event, and would love if you could help retweet it to your coursemates. It's here: http://twitter.com/#!/milkroundabout Which university are you currently studying at, and outside of twitter, what would
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by ian 15y ago
I think that's somewhat mitigated as the UK develops a few more household name brand start-ups like Moshi Monsters and Shazam but I agree it's an issue. I think the key point we need to make there is that as a developer you want to go where
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by ian 15y ago
That was my experience too. I studied machine learning at Cambridge and didn't know a single person from my class or years above me doing anything other than a phd, joining microsoft research (who were aggressively for computer vision grads
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Ask HN: Why don't more UK graduates want to join start-ups?
52 points by ian 15y ago|84 comments
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by ian 15y ago
we are testing a fully logged out version of the songkick experience with our new iPhone app. would be curious to hear how that works for you.
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by ian 15y ago
if you're open to exploring other possibilities drop me a line. we are looking for talented people who share our passion for live music. [ianATsongkick]

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