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Easier said than done. You can create a "cookie" by simply sending a unique image to a users browser with a long cache time, and then reading that back with JavaScript on each page.

If you disable your browsers cache and/or JavaScript, I guess that would fix this particular issue.

If you want to keep both the cache, and JavaScript, then you need to stop people from doing this sort of thing, with legislation.
I have only just heard about this event and only because a friend sent me this article on twitter. I have had a quick search but can't find any accounts for this event on twitter. If you guys had an account you could send us details on there then with one retweet, all my coursemates would know about it.
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 wherever you'll learn the most, and start-ups credibly offer that - both by exposure to the broader aspects of building a successful business and also by density of talent.
Have you contacted universities directly? I studied at the University of Birmingham and they had a named contact for getting in touch with students. That person often forwarded relevant communication (job opportunities, recruitment events) to us and I took my first job based on one of those emails.

I agree with robfitz that people don't talk about startups. The companies that do the milkround are the usual suspects. Accenture, Deloitte, Procter and Gamble etc...
Yes of course there is some risks but you cannot succeed if you don't try. I just put some targets according to the money I've got in the bank. It was OK because we (family) have had enough money for more than one year without income.
When my first app was mentioned in the NYT, I realized that there was a market and it was possible to do a sustainable living. I also realized that promotions was the key once you've got a good product - OK everybody know that but when you are an indie with a software engineer background it's not easy to do it because you are reluctant to do it.

biggest challenge : designing innovative apps and doing the promotions (then artwork)

my family was a great help to stay motivated. My most important issue was money and being able to feed my family, but My wife told me that it was better if we didn't have a lot of income and I was happy with my jobs and stayed at home with her and the kids. She was so right. Doing something that you enjoy (and of course where there is some money) is the key to stay motivated (for me and I think for a lot of people).
Although IE has been updated to 9 with Mangoo which is a decent browser, i would expect the same problems Opara gets with cutting edge stuff: You are very lucky if the app got tested for IE. I never encountered serious problems though, even with IE7.
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I'm a founder of Lyst, one of the companies who will be involved in the event. I have two theories about why the traction for so-to-be graduates hasn't been amazing.

1) Location. While London is definitely business and cultural center of Britain, I believe it's a bit of a slog for students to travel down to the recruitments fair, especially since most of the best universities are located outside of the city. SO going to them would definitely help.

2) Most of the companies pitching are relatively unknown to the general masses. My best hires are people who either approached us because they like why we're doing, or people in my professional circles. Professional developers fit nicely into these two buckets, were most students don't. Great companies like Tuxebo and Conversocial don't really have mass appeal. Subsequently, it's hard to get a student who doesn't truly understand the company/space excited about being a part of the team.

The second problem is even further exacerbated as early startups don't want "employees". They want "Employee #1"; someone who is passionate and ready to help push the company forward.

It's a tricky problem.
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 have been the best way to help make you and your classmates aware of the event?
Admiring nature and animals doesn't lead to my becoming a biologist, nor drinking beer lead to my founding a brewery. You can appreciate something without having to really understand what is going on beneath the surface. We are just predisposed to an interest in technology, is all.
Just going off a little bit on a tangent here; I remember reading the Node.js port to Windows is based on IOCP, so will this affect Node in Windows 8?

Are there any benefits to Node.JS if it is to use this new API?

Does anyone know?
Yeah, that kind of blows a hole in pg's argument -- that really was a cruel thing to say.
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Nokia's non-smartphones don't have Symbian. They have S40.
Wiping the cache on browser close isn't a "good" solution. It doesn't prevent cross site tracking across a single session, which means your accounts can be linked together.

I completely disabled the cache in Firefox two months ago for this very reason. I haven't noticed any performance problems with this in my general day to day browsing, but I have a decent broadband connection, and good connectivity at work so YMMV. Here's how I did it: https://grepular.com/Preventing_Web_Tracking_via_the_Browser...
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JRuby's the only JVM language already making use of invokedynamic isn't it? Neither Groovy nor Clojure have implementations using it, and of course Java and Scala are statically typed languages.
http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n9/speci...

http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/products/phone/lumia800/specifi...

aside from the n9 case design its pretty boring spec and feature wise... but hey its got windows and kids around here are in to that.
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.

Do you think we should take the siliconmilkroundabout on tour? I'm wondering if part of the issue is that we don't have our own stall alongside the usual suspects you name.
Then there's that little voice in the back of my head saying "Cyanogenmod?"
>That thing looks like a lazy ripoff of the Nokia N9.

Doesn't that apply to iPhone4S as well?
People that don't know how to censor or write up teaser highlights of their career, is the easiest filter when going over resumes. So basically your article is stating your friends resume would go in my rejected pile.
First off, S40 isn't Symbian. Secondly, didn't you just ask for a featurephone then why do you care about the platform?
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When I left university I interviewed at a small company and a startup but in both cases they were just interviews for jobs I got through a recruitment consultant. That was all I knew of how to get a job. I think the problem is that recent graduates are unaware they could be doing anything other than looking at cwjobs and phoning a recruitment agency up.

Possibly timing is an issue, right before or after final exams may catch students when getting a job is more top of mind?

One other idea might be to organise some paid internships. If you have a large number of companies in willing to take interns on (point them to Joels 'smart and gets things done' if they want to see the benefits of getting smart people interested in their company before they leave education) then that may give the CS departments a reason to get undergraduates interested in a startup career.

Good luck with the event this weekend, it looks fantastic.
It also might be worth getting in touch with Student Unions as some students might have entrepreneur societies that have final years that would be interested. As well as Math and Computer societies.

Generally I've found that the Unions might be more willing to spread the word to the students than the universities.
Anyone actually managed to find a link to pre-order?
I have recently finished at Brighton university and so me and my mates are all looking for jobs. Other companies in the past have got students to promote for them, posting on the university intranet, facebook groups etc.
I can't make this event but I hope you do another.
Interesting how it has only 0.5GB of RAM. Is this meant to be Nokia's flagship Windows Phone product?

As an aside, I still think Apple got it right with the single hardware "home" button vs the three in WP7 and Android.
Take a picture, send it in. (I think it requires a special app.)
I noticed that you're aiming a couple of your projects at kids.

What are your thoughts about EDU platforms like SmarTots? Other than expanding the reach of your app are there any sorts of features such as click analytics, reporting for parents or achievements that are appealing to you?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/smartots-raises-750000-offe...

(Disclosure- I'm an early employee there and focus on dev support, so it's not merely an academic question!)
Very impressive, fantastic breakdown and a great post. Congratulations on your success and best wishes in the future!
what kind of promotions did you do ?
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 create a listing of all the summer internships available as well. Thanks for a helpful idea.
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I think you meant: More unequal societies have more social problems (regardless of economic wealth).

I was very impressed with the talk. This has got some fairly epic ramifications for politics e.g. under this theory progressive taxes could make you better off even if they just buried the money in a big hole and set it alight. (Though he notes that you don't need regressive taxation to get this benefit, just equality by whatever means)

And since that kind of policy outcome will trigger the same old arguments I'd recommend that anyone intending to comment watch the actual 15 minute lecture first. It's thought-provoking wherever you find yourself on the political map with lots of potential for discussion that doesn't re-tread the same old arguments you've heard a thousand times before.

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I've been really lucky, straight out of university I've managed to only work with startups. I've had the opportunity to work with a few startups to get them to a first release [I graduated and moved to Germany helping startups as a contractor].

But generally, working for startups isn't mentioned as an option to students at any point during their course. This is perhaps an issue with university faculty, they probably assume it's not an option since they don't have any contacts to any startups. Placing a call to Microsoft recruitment is easy.

Another reason might be an issue with the education students receive at university, I feel as if only 10 students out of a class of 120 people will know how to program correctly. Startups normally want people with lots of knowledge in many different areas, they don't want people who only know how to do certain things; Hiring a graduate who can only code HTML isn't normally an option for startups since they need the most out of the little money that have.

Until at least 50% of a graduating class are able to perform in multiple areas, backend, front-end, perhaps mobile in multiple languages (they don't have to know them amazingly well, but enough to program efficiently whilst checking documentation – when needed!), startups aren't really an option for most graduates. You would be amazed at how many students can't debug problems in their code, because they're taught to just copy code they find on the internet or on some sort of Blackboard style intranet app.

TL;DR: Students graduate with piss poor skills and until more students graduate with the needed skills, they'll never find themselves in a startup.
We've hit quite a few entrepreneur societies but not really student unions. We'll look into that. Thanks.
Are you working with uni staff to get the word out? Staff at programmes like http://www.ucl.ac.uk/msi/study/technology-entrepreneurship would probably be keen to promote it.
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Ha! Like the 'teapot' primitive in 3D packages?
That's great - shame on the others for not passing it on.

Clearly the big boys visit universities because they have the resources to do so. If siliconmilkroundabout were to visit on behalf of a body of startups this would clearly be more efficient than every startup trying to send one man. I'd love to see this happen and I think it would have a huge impact on students, especially given the contrast with other visitors. How it is funded would be an issue and perhaps donors would see their company specifically promoted but I think that can be worked out.
Why different OS? WP7 is a great system.
chugger == troll. A good one, but still a troll.

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A few guesses:

a) The likes of Morgan Stanley, PWC and suchlike put a lot of effort into always being at the forefront of student minds, by sponsoring societies, etc. That often means they are the default first choice. They also organise a ton of events to show students how nice they are.

b) Money. No getting away from this one. A decent starting salary might be in the region of 25k, the companies mentioned above usually pay somewhere around 35k. That 10k makes a huge difference after 3-4 years of living in squalor.

c) Inexperience. Coming out of university a job is more-or-less a job. You write some code, get paid, that's it. It takes a bit of personal experience to fully appreciate the corporate reality of legacy code, bureaucracy and incompetence. In my experience it often takes those encounters with the beast that is corporate coding to make you run for the hills or startups.

d) Peers and parental pressure. Your mates are all getting golden hand shakes and nice lunches at Big Corp, it is natural to want the same. Also, when you get that job offer from PWC or similar, your parents' eyes light up with excitement and they run off to tell all their friends about it. When you get a job at a three man company, their reaction is likely to be mild confusion at best. Sad but true.
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Ian, I think it comes down to the fact that graduates here in London and the rest of the UK aren't all that interested in startups as a whole. Having studied at a top London uni and having friends doing CS degrees at Imperial, UCL etc, none of them even considered joining a startup. It seems as though all of these graduates have their heart set on joining investment banking/trading - this is largely based on what they think the job is like, but after they join, they realise it sucks but the money is pretty good they just put up with it. This is based on 10+ of my friends working in banking and hating the hours and the work.

We need to foster more of a startup culture within university campuses, right now 99% of graduates don't even think about joining a startup - it just doesn't even come into their mind, totally focused on joining a blue chip.

Finally, many (not all!) of the startups here in London don't even have a proper business model and haven't made a profit despite being established for years. So that doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the top CS graduates they hope to attract.
I have to give a counterpoint, I recently had a great recruiter experience. The company had given him a spec of the person they wanted (someone who had been both a developer and a DBA on 24/7 trading systems), he went out and found me, made a convincing case as to why my career ambitions could be better fulfilled at his client, managed the whole process, negotiated me a great package, and I start there next week. Absolutely professional from start to finish, he's as good as his job as I am at mine. These guys are worth their weight in gold - but I'll admit, they are rarer than hen's teeth.
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Well yes, you got me. But what made you think I didn't watch the talk?
They are developing Meltemi for low-end range. They won't use WP7 for that.
If your stock drops 12% when your profits drop 73% you're doing just fine.

Anybody that thinks differently should short this stock. We'll talk in 24 months ;)
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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 try to have dinner with the parents/partners of those joining us to try to get them to buy into the opportunity and people behind the start-ups as well. That's also one area where in the UK, having brand name investors like YC and Index behind you really helps.
No doubt the attraction of big companies is strong for grads, and for good reasons. A positive observation is that post-grad Entrepreneurship programs attract a lot of people who went straight to big companies and then figured out that startups were a better option for them. So grads who get it just take a year or 3 to become aware of the option.

I wonder if the answer lies with these recent alumni, and if there's a way to share their experience with the doey-eyed undergrads job-seekers.

Maybe Milkroundabout needs to bring it into the schools, and enable alumni as the awareness vector. Or maybe Milkroundabout could turn some attention to rescuing former grads already employed at big companies, rather than focusing solely on the newest grads.
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You can have it with Meego, as the N9. It's almost exactly the same hardware (the N9 has an additional button).
Awesome Pierre! Thanks for sharing with us and giving back to the community!
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as soon as you've exhausted this source you should start hiring recruiters.

Presumably the quality of the first recruiter you hire will have a significant impact if they are going to be bringing in other recruiters as well. So how do you hire a good recruiter?
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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This made me think of an experimental aircraft design I saw once. It uses a huge ducted propeller to be able to hover while at the same time being able to fly forward, with the wings (and duct) generating lift as in a traditional airplane. The problem is that the cockpit stays fixed, so hovering would be very disorienting for the pilot.

http://www.esotec.org/hbird/index.html
In addition to the two flying modes it can roll on the ground to get to hard to reach places. I've not seen a helicopter do that before.
I don't think you can call Moshi Monsters and Shazam a 'startup' anymore.
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I'm currently a masters student at UCL and I'm too surprised at the small scale of start-up culture here. I've been talking to many london universities to bring hackers and start-up enthusiasts together to collaborate and see what everyone is working on. Numbers are small, but there is talent out there working on cool ideas.

In my opinon in this case it's a matter of exposure, here at UCL I didn't see any advertisements about siliconmilkroundabout; and I bet more non-technical founders knew about it than computer scientists. Universities are a hard one to crack, you really have to target down hard to the societies(techsoc) and the right areas (malet place).
+1 on the guest lecture point. UCL runs a guest lecture series with founders, but that's focused on business students. This could be shared with other departments like CS and Design.
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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!
Location is a good point. Never underestimate the laziness of students when it comes to transit. They're used to living in a village.
What needs more than half a gig? The 4S copes. Going up to 1GB adds an unnecessary $9 to the BOM which eats into margins.
Thanks Pierre, great stuff!

The common thread I keep seeing in app developer success stories is the app being featured in NYT or on the App Store. What do you think most contributed to you being discovered and featured like you were? What can "normal" devs like me do to increase our apps' chances of getting noticed?
far-fetched, but where are you from David?
I was a business graduate (Nottingham) & we were never pitched startups either.

I was very willing to join a startup, but I also tend to rail against the Silicon Roundabout. I'm just personally not that interested in London.

Are many of these companies based elsewhere?

It's funny because something like this would do very well with Nottingham students. The dedicated business campus also has many computer science students, but we really only ever heard of the usual companies.

Have you looked at the Institute for Enterprise and Innovation on the Nottingham Business Campus, for example?
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If someone can get meego working on the lumia I'd definitely consider it ... (an actual n9 is harder to come by, would prob be more expensive).
I think your idea is superb, but your website would be better if there was a way to search through all the available jobs to see if there is anything in particular of interest.

For instance, it would be useful to be able to see which funded companies were looking for a junior designer and then be able to look at the actual job postings themselves (e.g. via link to that company's website).

I hope you have great success with this event. I have a friend attending and there's a good chance I will come down from Leeds one day to take a look at one of your future events.
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