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LWCARAB

Re:Ask HN: Any startup looking for a summer intern ? on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @09:29AM (#552677)
Hi there, I too am based in Sheffield but at Hallam (I can here the boo's from here...). Feel free to drop me a line: [email protected]
Re:Going to Silicon Valley without YC, is it a good idea? on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @09:25AM (#552675)
As for the visa issue, I believe you can get a lot done in 3 months and I needed longer, I could just go home and come back again to get another 3 months (I believe the rule of thumb is that you should stay longer in your home country than the US which would limit it to 6 months). I believe that if create a successful business in the US then you will find some way of staying, the Auctomatic guys managed it somehow.

As for the comments about the UK (I am British) I don't really know I just find that there is very little support for web startups generaly, we have an enterprise centre which I am part of but they don't really know what to say when they find out that you don't plan on selling anything. Everyone I know is very secretive about things, it's all about NDAs rather than actually learning from talking.

I'm based in Sheffield and my skills are most likely pretty basic comapared to most people on here but I enjoy designiing and creating asp.net sites which is how I want to do my contact site, probably not the best way but I think it's doable.

Richard

Re:Ask HN: Any startup looking for a summer intern ? on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @07:39AM (#552554)
Hi there,

  I can't offer you an internship but would be interested in talking about yours projects, I am based in France and in the UK. Email: lwcarab at gmail dot com
Richard

Going to Silicon Valley without YC, is it a good idea?

This idea all started off from reading the article below:http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/04/07/you-didnt-make-it-to-y-combinator-or-techstars-now-what/In my opinion it is true that the best part of YC is the contacts you make and it got me thinking can you really get these yourself?I didn't get accepted into this years YC like many other people here but still really want to develop my idea,...

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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? on Monday April 06, 2009 @06:19PM (#549787)
Yep this was Kulveer and Harjeet Taggar from Auctomatic, as far as I know they only met up with their hackers (Patrick and John Collison) once at Y Combinator. And Auctomatic was an extremely successful investment, I doubt we've seen the last of those guys.
Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? on Monday April 06, 2009 @06:14PM (#549776)
All the best to everyone who applied, lets just hope we see some amazing new products grow from whoever is selected.

Comparing UK and US investors

A question which has recently come to my mind is:Are American Investor more willing to take risks than British ones or is it just that there are more of them and that they are easier to get in touch with?I may be very wrong in saying this but I really do believe that investors here in the UK fear taking risks and miss out on the amazing companies that come from doing so.On a regular basis,...

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