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Re:Bankers and lawyers jump ship for tech startups by yardie on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @09:27AM (#2785385)
It's a bit like being a celebrity and dealing with papparazzi. After the last bubble (and being a freshly-minted graduate) I couldn't get a job in computers and slid through the tech support back entrance. Now with lines under my eyes and a slight case of CPS I can't even bring up my profession without someone handing me a business card.

Conversation goes like this:

?: So what do you do?

me: I'm a programmer.

?: Really?! Hey, I got this great idea for site, doing warble, warble, warble, warble......

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Re:Bankers and lawyers jump ship for tech startups by diolpah on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @09:43AM (#2785464)
This does not reflect the experiences of any developer I know. Is this a local phenomenon? Do you live in silicon valley?
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Re:Bankers and lawyers jump ship for tech startups by yardie on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @11:47AM (#2786062)
It's probably regional. Any place that has a high flux of MBAs; in my case NYC, Miami, London, Paris. Usually its a copy of an already successful model or a mashup of 2 already successful models.

Recently, someone asked me about my thoughts on a location based photosharing service (twitter meets flickr). I was honestly interested in it then a few weeks later Instagram came out. Most of the time I either get the ideas that are completely infeasible or too pedestrian.

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Re:Bankers and lawyers jump ship for tech startups by davidwparker on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @12:37PM (#2786357)
It's the same scenario in Boulder, CO. There is at least a 5-1 ratio of business-types to programmers.
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Re:Bankers and lawyers jump ship for tech startups by OzzyB on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @11:33AM (#2785972)
I would venture to say that this is indeed very common. It's the same for web-design, graphic design and pretty much every creative industry out there. And now that "apps" are the mainstream buzzword, programmers are seeing it too.
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Re:Bankers and lawyers jump ship for tech startups by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @11:35AM (#2785984)
This is super common in sf bay. SV is a marketing / media term.. Most of the locals say "the bay", FYI
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