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I think there's a couple of issues. First, there's probably a bias on the part of graduates to take a job with what they perceive to be a safe, secure company that will look good on their CV. I think that tendency is a cultural thing here in the UK - there's more of a tendency for people here to work for companies for their entire career and, hence, there's traditionally been a cachet attached to working for big companies. That's something that's likely to change over time, though.

Another factor is likely to be a bias on the part of universities towards building relationships with larger employers who are seen as prestigious. An unheard-of startup won't garner anywhere near the interest and attention of a large, well-known company.
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My main feedback is that I don't know which step to take next. I see 6 links in the yellow bar ... be a little more deliberate/forceful in directing me on what to do next.

I agree with this one. There's already a "Now Click Here" button at the start. I'd suggest extending that concept to successive pages until the seller has filled in whatever info you think most pages should have. Sidebar and config come to mind as two that most people will want to fill out.

And perhaps during that first time there should be a stronger visual emphasis on the top buttons so that customers are more likely to link them to the options they're seeing.

On the whole, though, it looks great. Nice MVP.
As far as I remember, Nintendo always did that, selling each console at profit, however small that may be, starting from NES, to Super NES, N64, Gamecube and now Wii (and I guess, soon WiiU).

So Nintendo was the only manufacturer who did not apply the "razorblade" model of the other console makers, which is understandable since they were and are a videogame company only and thus never had any other branches which could have been able to subsidize their console business in the beginning (unlike for example Microsoft).

I think the first console Nintendo made that actually sold at a loss is the current 3DS handheld and that may be after the very fast initial price cut after the slow reception on the market.
I think only Android devices ship with >512MiB RAM. More RAM is more expensive and eats your battery. The iPhone seems to work fine with 512MB, perhaps it's just Android that needs it?
I've never understood how people manage to mess up cases so badly - especially other (supposedly) technical people. I have never replaced a computer because of physical failure. --Even my first laptop, which lasted me 5 years, was replaced because I was moving overseas and didn't want to have to worry about paying higher prices for a laptop in the UK.
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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?
Great idea on touring, there's a probably a non-student-stereotypical type reason why banks/companies come to the students, instead of the other way round. Good opportunity to bring awareness to the start-up world
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I'm sure some guys at the UCL Hatchery would be willing to help spread the word too. Email me at smile@saintsal.com and I'll put you guys in touch.
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I think this would create a lot of interest in the start-up area.
As part of my course there was a compulsory 6-month placement in industry. Most of the students were blissfully unaware of the start-up opportunities available, especially when the big players were dangling large money incentives and holding big promotion events. Also, if you took a typical internship with a bank, etc, the chances are that you got offered a graduate job. This in itself would prevent a lot of the students looking further for other opportunities even if they were being promoted.

The only time I even had a hint of the start-up world was the odd email from the career officer. (I actually remember the SongKick advert. I was really tempted to apply, even though you were just looking for a graduate position. In hindsight, I should have tried my luck :))

What would be useful in promoting the internships would be a start-up demo-day, where bunch of start-ups would come in and showcase their product/vision, development technologies, and any other 'cool stuff'.

Edit: To clarify, rather that a start-up fair, where students stumble about, the demo-day would be contained in a lecture room with a proper presentation and QA session. These types of events were always packed in uni.
As a kids iOS dev, I'd also like to thank Lorraine of "Moms With Apps" for her support. "My PlayHome" & "Pocket PlayHome" are just starting to be profitable but at the start Lorraine really helped get things going and is still actively helping me get the app out there.

Lorraine also gave me some advice which I think is really the "secret" of your success: Make a really good app.

Tangentially, I've found Twitter to be remarkably useless for marketing. For the most part on Twitter, nobody is listening. Everyone has thousands of followers but nobody is actually reading. Thanks to bit.ly's public analytics, I can see it's not just me either.

The biggest event for me on Twitter was when @glinner (Father Ted, IT Crowd, hugely influential tweeter) tweeted a recommendation: https://twitter.com/#!/Glinner/status/103123278650028032
...and that resulted in about 40 extra sales. 40.
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 a good job of reaching that community.

I really like the idea of using alumni as an awareness vector.
as a vaguely recent graduate, and living in london, I was surprised that I hadn't heard of this until I read it here on HN.

Also (and this is totally personal) the Brick Lane location would have put me off a) because it's the other side of London, but mainly b) I have always perceived brick lane (and there abouts) as a London counter-culture/socialism/arty/etc scene, and events there abouts tend to follow that stereo type (for example look at the difference between the New Designers (http://www.newdesigners.com/) show and Free Range(http://www.free-range.org.uk/)). I have no problem with that now, but straight out of uni I was obsessed by money and one thing that a brick lane location doesn't scream to the high heavens is just that: money...
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I just spent a year in Cape Town, and one thing I found interesting was that due to the utter incompetence of the monopoly telco (Telkom), people tend to get their internets from mobile-based technologies. I've heard that Nairobi (the major non-SA tech hub in Africa) is much the same way.

As smartphones become commoditized, I expect mobile social networking to become dominant quicker there than in the EU/US, or at least to 'skip a technology' and move straight to mobile without an intervening landline-based phase.
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Yeah highly recommend on sending some cool figures down or arrange a presentation, although if you have 3 days maybe too late.

If you email me at gbfjcaeakq@mailinator.com (temporary email address) i can put you in contact with head of techsoc.
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That Versio site is terrible. For start, some of its facts are just plain wrong, the 4S has 512MB RAM not 1GB. It also has HDMI mirroring and video output. Branded Lens? Who cares? Why is a bigger screen better?
As a soon-to-be graduate in Germany I can second all of your guesses. ANYONE I know is going to either join BigCorp Inc or staying at Uni. I had a feeling for a long time that that was not for me and I started looking into doing a startup. For now I am not ready so I am going to work for one, but I am really the odd one among my peers. Parents also think it's weird when you had this opportunity to work for a big name. So in Germany a lot of it is definitely cultural and perception, I imagine its similar in the UK.
> 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 of the others have been a lot less engaged and willing to promote to their student body, vs the tried and tested options of banks & consultancies.

If the "official" university authorities refuse to engage, go through the student societies.
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I'm currently a student (in Holland), and I've been to a few recruitment fairs and if I were to get an email or see a flyer about another one I would probably not even read it. Most recruitment fairs are just terrible. Companies will send the prettiest girls they can find in their HR and PR departments with the sole goal of getting your contact info plus some buzzwords so they can add those to their database. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against pretty girls, but they're not actually interested in me as a person nor do they have a lot of knowledge about the company which usually makes recruitment fairs a big waste of time.

On campus presentations on the other hand are a fantastic way of putting yourself on the radar. I don't mean the recruitment fairs that some Uni's will have on campus, but rather smaller events. I recently went to the final presentation of a phd project and there were 4-5 companies giving a short talk what they did in that field and afterwards they had stands with demos and the actual people who get their hands dirty were there to talk to you (extensively). To me the latter (where it's directly related to a topic I might be interested in) is much more interesting and inspiring than some impersonal recruitment fair.
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Well, I found myself flooded with feeds. That was the idea behind feed2mail - get the important stuff by mail. You are right, this is a pretty interesting reversal.
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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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There is a second page, but when ordered by price it's not available and I'm in a rush right now unfortunately.
Since everybody makes mistakes, would you throw that resume in the trash?

IMHO, the best people are the ones that learn from their mistakes and being honest about it in a public way goes a long way towards that.

In my own resume that I send out whenever I'm required I am listing some thoughts on a project that was an utter failure. My online resume also contains a couple of words about it, but less explanations. I like it like that and it doesn't really bother me since:

1) I never apply through recruitment agencies,
unless contacted with a concrete offer that
stands out (and in such a case, the recruiter is
already interested in me)

2) Failing to answer about your failures really
stands out in an interview, catching you
unprepared. By putting a failure on your resume,
you're the one leading the conversation (the
interviewer will either ask you about it or
not ask you about your failures at all)

3) You don't want to work for companies with
brain-dead filtering mechanisms

Personally, I also hate bullshit. I used to interview people and it's a good thing I haven't done so in a long time, because I hate it. I hate listening to people about how awesome they are, while being incapable of writing a FooBar sample.
IE getting punished by the marketplace for not adhering to standards?! The prayers of a hundred thousand angry webdevs have surely been answered :-)
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Yes. It's a very hard problem.
Language is an evolving, organic thing. In casual use, I consider "funner" valid. It only sounds weird when you're not used to hearing it.
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I've recently purchased a WP7, initially the browser was horrible, now they've upgraded it to IE9 it's much better, but I've still noticed problems on some pages, most notable of which is the new version of the Facebook Touch site. It's much better on my Android and IOS devices than it is on WP7, I'm not sure whether thats IE9's fault or Facebooks for not testing it on those devices, but it looks worse and has a bunch of rendering errors.

So the varying opinions are probably both Mango vs older WP7 versions, and also certain websites not being tested on it (perhaps using mobile webkit specific stuff)
Wow that is interesting regarding Twitter. It might be more useful longer term for customer engagement though?

Do you think it is specific to your market to suffer from this or is it a wider problem?
Fair comment, part of the point of the article is to challenge the notion that it takes X long to build something. I think sometimes we talk ourselves into believing it is going to take longer to build something than it could.
Comparing specs for phones with different OSes could be misleading. I think both iOS and Windows Phone are less hungry for RAM than Android.
On the other hand, there is a rumor about another Nokia model, codenamed Ace, which is supposed to be the ultimate, hi-end one (probably some kind of a N8 successor, but that's just my guess).

Regarding buttons: personally, I love Android's "Back" button and wish iPhone had one like this as well.
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Looks like they chose to increase battery life and keep the phone relatively small rather than go with more powerful hardware. It's a good trade off. My iPhone 4 has never felt slow and it's a good size. I'd really like more battery life actually.
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I'm a recent graduate and I attended the previous milkroundabout.

Let me start by saying that I've always hated recruitment fairs — you're treated like cattle and rarely get to speak to companies (read: HR departments) properly. I found it to be a similar situation with the milkroundabout event only instead of HR departments it was founders and developers.

I don't agree with "selling the brand" of milkroundabout as it will easily be confused with similarly named events/sites/companies. Instead aim to do guest lectures at universities on topics that are bound to get students interested.

If you're the ones with interesting work, why aren't you talking about what you do? Students already get told that they are under prepared for what working life is like and you can expose them to what you've done. You could easily compare this to what life was like at <insert safe boring company> before. If you're so inclined.

Pick topics that are interesting to the students that you want to attract. Then go on a tangent about start-ups, the culture, and the experience. If you show students what it's like to be in a start-up, they'll get involved and tell their friends.

In summary, sell them a better lifestyle than the usual suspects.
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A pet hate of mine - the companies page just has a list of icons. Put a short mission statement next to each so people don't have to click through to a hundred different websites just to find out if they are interested.
Hi Guys,

I'm a recent grad (just over 2 years ago now) and I have a startup in the UK. I'll be honest this is the first time I've heard about the event.

I think grads / final years are even more scared now than ever about finding a job and while that makes it a perfect time to try and start you own thing, I worry it just adds even more risk to a what they feel is already a dismal employment situation.

At Bath Uni we had an excellent Career's service however and if you wanted to do campus events or even just mailers, I would recommend getting in touch with university career centres. You can even ask them to pass your details on to the CS department and getting them the mail the event (yes, spam in a way) it to all the CS students. They did that at Bath if it was particularly relevant.

It may just be a case of students getting tired of all these career fairs which often don't amount to anything. I know in my final year, by the time I'd seen KPMG/Accenture/Deloitte/Barclays/BT/HP/etc I couldn't take any more being deceived about "fantastic opportunities". Perhaps posting this question to HN and undertaking some Twitter buzz if you can will attract the right sort of people to your event more than career emails.

Anyway, good luck with the event! Great that these things even happen in the UK,
Rob
It depends. A shooter? Yeah, piece of cake. An RPG? Sorry, but depending on the country no that many people could understand it well enough to follow the story.

TV Series do get around the moment they get on a torrent site, but many many people can follow them thanks to the subtitles provided by fellow viewers. If not they would have a harder time following them.
No the gap is not continuously widening everywhere. It rises and falls a lot. There is one measure and a historical chart in this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
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"Rather more revealingly, Gates concluded that the “solution” to the problem of patents was “patenting as much as we can… A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.”"

Interesting! It looks as though at least Paul Allen received the message loud and clear.

See: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20059560-71.html#ixzz1LMVQ...
I've been using computers since the days of tape drives. Personally, I've tried to use a touch screen on occassions only to find it's a regular computer screen.

I think there needs to be some recognised international symbol that touchscreens could show to indicate they can and should be touched - pointer icon (index finder extended hand symbol) with emanating circles appears to be the de facto standard. They do rather lack affordance.

I've never yet tried to pinch zoom a magazine cover or whatever though.

Reminds me of the Star Trek movie scene when Scotty picks up the mouse and talks in to it.
Good feedback. We are distributing a document to all who register with more details on each company & their roles prior to the event.
I've found Twitter to be remarkably useless for marketing

The biggest event for me on Twitter was when @glinner.. tweeted a recommendation

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In a meeting, the person who suggests a good idea and the person who recognizes a good idea are usually two different people.
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, directly. Did that happen? Sounds like it was much like a typical recruitment fair for you, which is a failure on our part.
... or indeed without reading, apparently.
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Hey,guys,I'm moving to London in a couple of weeks and would like to ask you some questions about UCL/Imperial and the startup scene in general.Is there some relevant forum(not studentroom.co.uk)?
If not,due to lack of PM system on YC,if any of you replies to my email anton_92@live.com,would appreciate it.Thank you
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Banking in UK is so ridiculous, beside of all insane overdraft charges when you enter your PIN incorrectly (Pin & Chip is mandatory in many EU countries) your bank charges you for £1
> I'm lucky enough to live in an English-speaking country, but I'm sure that if I lived in a country that typically sees long delays before localization, I'd find a way to get it early. Even if that meant learning English and engaging in piracy.

Translations are often bad and delayed. This is as true for games as it is true for movies or books. I hate it. The obvious solution is to just get the english versions.

But the worst thing is, there is often no legal or practical way to get the english version. Books are easy. You can get just about any english book through Amazon (.de, .fr, .etc). Movies are somewhat bad. DVDs usually include english language. iTunes doesn't feature (many) english movies, but Ebay sells US iTunes gift cards. Games are actually really hard. It is possible to order from Amazon UK or Amazon US, but shipping will be weeks and there is a good chance you will have to pay customs. Steam requires a VPN and a foreign account and a credit card proxy (Entropay works fine). Not what you would call convenient.
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Your app looks great, but your QA may need to be stepped up a notch.

Overall, although your app seems great (purchased it recently), there is at least one serious and extremely obvious bug. The spelling quiz feature relies on a voice synthesizer. The British accent (haven't tested the others) version fails totally on the first word (easiest) spelling list, and the short words produced are unintelligible. It would seemingly be easy to have tested this, and I'm surprised this wasn't picked up.

I'm not picking on you, and I'm glad I purchased your app for my child. However, this bug made me wary of buying your other app.
I just looked and workinstartups.com has an interns section.

http://workinstartups.com/jobs/interns/

possibly you could work with them on this? They seem to be UK based/focused.
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you assume that most websites care about standards. They don't.[1] Writing truly standards compliant html is too much hassle for most people out there, and brings next to nothing in value. What they do is test it against the important implementations: On the desktop IE 7+, Firefox 3+, Chrome. For mobile sites they test for both webkit flavors, and that's it.

Again, IE mobile is facing the same problems as Opara: Both are very decent browsers, but they have different ways of handling the strange corner cases in the tag soup out there than the market leaders.

errata: The web has become a lot better w/r to standards in the last couple of years. Like I said before, I've encountered very few glitches with IE7, and none so far with IE9.

[1]http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator...