Shoreditch - Silicon Ditch - is a great area to work - it has a great buzz and creativity - and living is not too expensive if you head further into east london - you don't have to live in west london, which admittedly is too pricey.
This is not quite right:
1. In the UK you are not required to work three months after giving notice unless it is a provision of your contract of employment. If you don't have a written contract - then you will be entitled to a statutory notice period that roughly accrues in weekly units depending on years worked - but with cap. However,you can be paid in lieu of notice. It is fine to employ someone on one months notice - and less if they have worked for you for less than twelve months.
2. Restrictive covenants are unenforceable in the UK if they are unreasonably wide. ie you may be restricted for a year from hopping into a company that does the same thing in the same area. But not from using you transferable skills in a different company or different area.
If someone tries to get you to sign to a two year, 200 mile radius, transferable skill / different business restriction - sign it and don't worry as it will not be enforceable.
Silicon Muskeg? According to wiki: Muskeg is an acidic soil type common in Arctic and boreal areas, although it is found in other northern climates as well. Muskeg is more-or-less synonymous with bogland but muskeg is the standard term in Western Canada and Alaska (while bog is more common elsewhere).
That would be better for the tech hub near Cambridge, UK - Silicon Fen - not Shoreditch, East London
I still prefer Silicon Ditch - where we already have the pure essence of innovation permeating the landscape. Its just a grimey landscape, with fewer palms.
How about "Silicon Ditch?"
"Silicon Roundabout" is one name that has stuck for the tech cluster around the ugly traffic circle in the Old Street area of Shoreditch, East London. I think "Silicon Ditch" is catchier and maybe articulates the British penchant for self-deprecation better...
Any votes for Silicon Ditch? "Silicon Roundabout" is one name that has stuck for the tech cluster around the ugly traffic circle in the Old Street area of Shoreditch, East London. I think "Silicon Ditch" is catchier and maybe articulates the British penchant for self-deprecation better...
Yes but Silicon Ditch definitely evokes the grimey feel of Old Street. A founder of Huddle described Silicon Valley as Reading (UK) but with sun and palm trees. Even if you filled Old Street with sun and palm trees - it would still be grime - central (though I love working there).
Really easy to forget this stuff so thank you.
When I feel the answer to my success lies with other people I tend to overask. When I am confident my success lies with me my perspiration andinspiration, and a little luck, then I'm less likely to over-reach a relationship.
My wife has a beautiful friend who wants to marry a nerdy guy... her phrase .
So your strategy could pay off!
There's a great song by an English band: "sit down next to me" by James, which works for me when I feel dorky.
Genuinely surprising - though with the cuts that have just been announced by the chancellor, government spending on IT infrastructure (which makes up a meaningful part of these numbers I imagine) will fall and our numbers will take a dent. Even so it is an encouragement to people selling to and into the UK.
These are great questions. Exactly the ones I am asking myself right now as a non technical guy trying to work out which piece of the puzzle to start with in building out my project .
