Has the UK got Tech Talent?

[scooterscot]

Fair point. I do not think rational debate with you is possible

That's a fair comment. Could you expand on that?

[blackeye]

Interesting, we certainly don't have a silicon valley equivalent.

Brexit ought to change it things though, those pesky immigrants have been holding us back for 20 years.

God bless Farage.

[Paddy]

No mention of ACT (Apricot) that was killed off by Sir John Harvey-Jones' advice.
What an over-rated c^*t he is.
Apricot was more advanced than IBM PCs.

[BrilloPad]

At least the UK has got AtW! He is as British as the queen.....

[MrMarkyMark]

Of the loosing ones mentioned in the article? None

The successful one the article does not mention, Sky-scanner, Fanduel, Mallzee, Money Dashboard, PureLifi, ZoneFox.. the list goes on.

Give me a call when yo are ready to ketchup.

So successful I haven't heard of them, with the exception of Sky-scanner






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[SueEllen]

So successful I haven't heard of them, with the exception of Sky-scanner

You don't need to hear of them for them to be successful, you just need to be using them unknowingly.

[MrMarkyMark]

You don't need to hear of them for them to be successful, you just need to be using them unknowingly.

Yes, but the only one I'm using, knowingly or "unknowingly", is Sky Scanner.

I mean, really, a game, a couple of E commerce sites, free accounting software and some security software, hardly the success story that he claims.
Especially when he was mentioning all the silicon valley start ups, its like comparing premiership football to the local league side.





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[bobspud]

It would be interesting to better understand the number of actually useful tools that have come out of the valley verses the money sank.

Im not talking about the likes of Google/Facebook that just want to mine data from you to sell adds I mean companies that have a product that makes the consumer say this is a great tool I would like to buy it or subscribe...

Uber is quite good until you are back in the sticks but other than that...

[minestrone]

The SNP are more interested in funding disastrous wave power projects to virtue signal their green politics than support technology start ups. Scotland has the worst start up record in the UK just now.

And Sky Scanner are almost as old as Google, you would be laughed at if you called Google a start up.

[darmstadt]

Maybe immigration is the answer:

Immigrants far more likely to be entrepreneurial than British born 

One in five UK tech start-up founders are immigrants - Startups.co.uk: Starting a business advice and business ideas


(US) 16 Iconic American Companies Founded By Immigrants | Huffington Post