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flondon | 15 years ago | on: Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup

The interesting discourse here is why graduates find the big IBs/Consultancies so appealing, more so that joining a startup. In my opinion, this is due to the perception that a high flying blue-chip career gives - 99.9% of graduates would prefer to say ‘I work for Goldmans’ rather than ‘I’m going to work for an unknown technology startup around Shoreditch’ - this impresses grandma and the parents who have subbed the £30-40 university costs for their kids.

I think the counter to this is that within the UK, there is a dearth of success stories involving young tech entrepreneurs - the big one that sticks in my mind is the million-dollar-pixel guy, who as the name suggests made a million! (There are of course others, but I've not seen them as widely covered in the media)

Looking at the example of silicon valley, there are so many examples of tech entrepreneurs making it big at a young age - maybe once the London scene has a healthier number of well known (i.e. the Daily Mail writes about it) exits, the perception will improve and we will see a higher number of bright graduates preferring to join a startup.

flondon | 15 years ago | on: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia

This is a enterprise apps positioning play for Accenture and not really a move to acquire additional symbian talent. Taking on a few hundred developers is not a big deal for a company which hires 60k workers every year...

Long term outsourcing revenues whilst Nokia restructures and a foot in the door around the enterprise smartphone/tablet app space with the MS gang.

flondon | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: made a html5 game, polished it many many times

This was really fun! Addictive enough to have me spend 20 minutes completing all 5 levels.

Suggested areas to work on: 1 - The FPS reduces significantly when battling the tanks and shooting the officers - almost to the point of wondering if the game will crash. 2 - There was 1 prisoner on level 4 who I'm sure was unreachable. 3 - Improved sound effects i.e. different level music, mood music when facing the tanks etc

Looking forward to the next installment.

flondon | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Please review my app: Scheduling (employee scheduling software)

A feature you should strongly think about is around MI functionality. Smaller organisations, who I presume you are targeting, would typically use Excel for their MI needs.

If you could automate the generation of pretty and useful MI, perhaps through a dashboard on the site, it would be a great route in.

Better still, if you have paying customers how about meeting them and understanding first hand what they would find useful.