I'm in Edinburgh. Working on a collaborative web search startup.
Ask YC: are you a UK-based hacker, or working on a startup in the UK?
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#32I'm london - hedge fund.
not sure i trust a 2-h old account with 1 karma... but it's nice to offer.
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#33Irish hacker here. We are currently in stealth mode while we work on our project.
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#34Irish hacker here. We are currently in stealth mode while we work on our project.
Heh, I'm in Ireland too. We should meet up.
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#35Hi. We're here - based in Newcastle. Existing business, however we've two startups underway that are being run by two independent teams. I'm trying to oversee them and help where needed as at 37 years old I get too tired for all-nighters!! Just as a note though, I often go out to San Jose etc to meet up with people
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#36I'm dropping out of the University of Bath to work on tech startups full-time in London. Also in Winchester quite a lot as from there.
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#37Hey, i hope the sponsors of this site don't mind me offering help to anyone interested in building an international software brand. I was the development director at Codemasters and built and sold M$$$$$$$$$ software brands with hackers. I'm a follower of master hacker Paul Graham...see me....www.cibermole.com. Kent/England.
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#38I am just starting out and trying to get a couple of start-ups off the ground. I am based in Leeds ( http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=leeds&oe=UTF-8... ) and my current concern is about finding talent in the north. Everything I have read so far - including most of the stuff on YC News - suggests that I will have to go down south to London or Cambridge, or up-sticks and move to 'the valley'. However, recent netwo…
A hacker who lives in the north (in the countryside between leeds and york), and commutes weekly to London on contracts. There is talent in the north, you just have to be quick to snap it up, coz the first place we all look for work is in the biggest and best paying market, which of course is London.
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#39Come and check out London OpenCoffee
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#40There are several UK startups funded by YC, so we exist! Auctomatic, Sitepass, Songkick and a few in the new batch. Visas are difficult but otherwise I'd recommend moving to the Valley, or at least visiting. How about getting together at this? http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/Silicon+Valley+Comes+to+Oxfor... Myself and Harjeet will be there.
To be honest. That event just doesn't interest me at all. The speakers are not going to say anything that is not already on the web. ...and if they do, it will be on the web the day after.
I want to meet hackers. The best way to do that is probably over coffee. Not in the context of someone delivering a speech.