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Re:I want to get into startups, but I don’t know where to start by basicallydan on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @01:46PM (#7348894)
And we have nothing. Startups are nowhere to be found on campus colleges, maybe with the exception of Stanford and MIT.

Here in the UK we have a startup job fair called Silicon Milkroundabout [1]. At the moment it's London-based, but it attracts a huge amount of college grads. I suspect they'll soon be moving into doing or taking part in job fairs at Universities around the UK, because they're growing pretty quickly at the moment.

Maybe they also need to start making their way into the US, too.

[1] http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/

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Re:I want to get into startups, but I don’t know where to start by srcreigh on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @08:21PM (#7351210)
That part of the article didn't resonate with me, either.

I go to the University of Waterloo in Canada and as a second-year (sophomore) have already worked at a startup for an internship. I got that internship because of the co-op program at my school --- startups often hire from it. I'm not alone, either: several of my friends at UW are or have been startup interns. One friend is interning right now at a YC startup.

That's not even to mention the huge hackathon movement that has swept technical schools across North America. Startups have a huge presence in hackathons at UMich, Yale, MIT, UPenn, UW, University of Toronto, McGill University, and many others.

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