Working with startups

[oversteer]

I'd like to get involved with startups - specifically on the technical side, being a jack-of-all-trades has to be useful for something (I worked for 4 yrs on a startup and enjoyed it a lot).

But, my LinkedIn is full of recruitment agents and entrenched middle-management, sites like MeetUp just seem to be full of geeks swapping Linux stories, none of my friends have the inclination to do anything (or provide any good ideas).. where else to look for people with good ideas but no technical knowhow?

Networking groups? 4networking, BNI etc?

[SupremeSpod]

I'd like to get involved with startups - specifically on the technical side, being a jack-of-all-trades has to be useful for something (I worked for 4 yrs on a startup and enjoyed it a lot).

But, my LinkedIn is full of recruitment agents and entrenched middle-management, sites like MeetUp just seem to be full of geeks swapping Linux stories, none of my friends have the inclination to do anything (or provide any good ideas).. where else to look for people with good ideas but no technical knowhow?

Networking groups? 4networking, BNI etc?

Haven't you posted this question before?

I know MF replied to something like this a while ago...

Hmmmm

[oversteer]

Christ, did I? I'm going mad.

edit: ah no, I posted about MeetUp, to see if was a good place to network - but after looking, the groups were either made up of total geeks, or in it for mass self-promotion

[SupremeSpod]

Christ, did I? I'm going mad.

I don't know if you did but someone posted something similar and MF was particularly helpful iirc. I think he was ill or something on that day.

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...reenfield.html

Oh, sorry, my mistake was MF who started the post...

Mind you, your original post didn't garner much feedback...

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-meetings.html

[HairyArsedBloke]

Christ, did I? I'm going mad.

Welcome to my world.

Anyone tried the MiniBar thingy of MeetUp ?

[Clippy]

Oversteer - you say you are a 'jack of all trades' but what technical area of IT.
i.e. Networking, Client/server, databases, SAP

or is it really a little bit of everything across IT?

[oversteer]

Oversteer - you say you are a 'jack of all trades' but what technical area of IT.
i.e. Networking, Client/server, databases, SAP

or is it really a little bit of everything across IT?

I'd probably term it 'small business IT', so aspects like LAMP web development, server deployment, office IT etc. It's what I did for 4-5 years when I worked at one startup and enjoyed it a lot. (Maybe because I owned a third of it - not that it did me much good)

[Clippy]

I'd probably term it 'small business IT', so aspects like LAMP web development, server deployment, office IT etc. It's what I did for 4-5 years when I worked at one startup and enjoyed it a lot. (Maybe because I owned a third of it - not that it did me much good)

Do a search for First Tuesday London.

I believe they still exist.