Reply to: Has the UK got Tech Talent?

[Bee]

Need immigrants?

[LondonManc]

It could just be the case that techies over here see more money in safer sectors or are traditionally more risk averse and prefer the safe routes. A good quant techie doesn't need to take risks.

We're also seeing our brightest bods go elsewhere, discovering graphene and pushing other science boundaries as tech routes.

[minestrone]

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

And I'm not sure they can distinguish genuine start ups from foreign people opening UK subsidiaries.

The article seems to be positioning support for remain so I'm going to go ahead and claim that it is bulltulip.

[DodgyAgent]

Opening up a phone repair shop is probably counted as a tech startup.

as is changing from perm to contract in IT

[minestrone]

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

Opening up a phone repair shop is probably counted as a tech startup.

[DodgyAgent]

If I owned a start-up and had the opportunity to cash-in in the short term for gain I'd certainly take it. Who needs the headache of managing a global company when you can take the money and run off to do something more interesting

I am with you on that OS. I am happy with one car lot

[oracleslave]

A nice comparison of what happens when startups are sold for short-term gain.

If I owned a start-up and had the opportunity to cash-in in the short term for gain I'd certainly take it. Who needs the headache of managing a global company when you can take the money and run off to do something more interesting

[DodgyAgent]

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

Does that mean we should leave the borders open?

[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

[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.

[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...

[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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[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]

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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[BrilloPad]

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