Comments on: Leave Canary Wharf – Join a Startup!

By: mike

mike — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:29:56 +0000

ouesvf hi! how you doin?

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By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:57:11 +0000

So where is the best place in the UK to find people leaving the city and wanting to join a start up?

I’m looking for someone with sales and partnership experience for my start up Photolate Photo Retouching

By: Business Plan Pro

Business Plan Pro — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:40:24 +0000

Its a little soon to try and work out where this is all headed. Hopefully we’ll get some stability back. I think that the government will start to tackle those investors who have helped drive stocks down. We need leaders and entrepreneurs now more than ever before.

By: Spiros

Spiros — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:45:17 +0000

People lost their job Mike, what a terrible opening sentence. Are you honestly that naive – do you consider the perks that a major multicorp will offer equal to what a startup can offer, especially to people used to the first kind of lifestyle for several years?

By: jas

jas — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:10:31 +0000

@ David Stobs-Stobart

How the hell do you make a living from that start up….you have only just launched it………where you been for 2 years…..spending all them fat bonuses on your big fat yacht in the med

By: We’re hiring at Nestoria Blog

We’re hiring at Nestoria Blog — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:28:14 +0000

[...] be lost in “the City“, and across the interweb we’re already seeing the calls to quit Canary Wharf and go join a start up. I’m not sure that’s viable advice for your average trader (not least because of the [...]

By: RichB

RichB — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:27:56 +0000

There were stock options at Lehmans too…

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:27:12 +0000

Amazingly, Google mobile is requiring bids higher than £18 per click to catch the Lehmans keyword. I wonder if its people offering jobs to the 5000 (via Mippin Mobile)

By: David Stobs-Stobart

David Stobs-Stobart — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:05:46 +0000

I left Canary Wharf 2 years ago to start Pintarget.com.
Never looked back. Just had to ween myself off the lifestyle!

Cliched but true: the greatest journeys all start one step at a time.

By: stewart townsend

stewart townsend — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:52:52 +0000

Most of the financial services technical people would make excellent startup employees, just need to get them out of the pub for more than a few hours a day hahahaha. Having worked in that sector, they will fit in great with the startup scene….

By: jim - ki work

jim - ki work — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:43:45 +0000

We currently have opportunities for people in the financial services to become ‘marketplace leaders’ of the financial categories in ki work – to essentially lease, build and profit from their own global marketplace of virtual work in their field of expertise.

see our recent blog post at http://ki-work.com/blog

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:38:26 +0000

Sadly the website is US only.

Get some more start up jobs for London or the UK listed.

By: David Petherick

David Petherick — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:59:58 +0000

I hope startups will remember the contracts of employment for such individuals should certainly include a specific clause to ensure that the new employees are not tempted to start buying up and selling on the debts of other startups’ customers.

By: Liam Lowe

Liam Lowe — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:57:01 +0000

I left Credit Suisse some four years ago. Gotta say some weeks I look back frequently! but hey ho, onwards and upwards.
On a serious note: probably a 9 month acclimatisation period required to adjust from marbled halls to start up heaven (mayhem)

By: Ville Vesterinen

Ville Vesterinen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:56:18 +0000

Thanks for the timely and important perspective Mike. It is not all as gloomy as it might seem.

For those that are able to see how the markets have shifted it’s an great opportunity that others can only see after months or years when the dust has settled.

If one looks back the best companies were always found not when the economy was booming, but rather when the markets have gone south and the prospects for quick promotions and bonuses were slim. Thus, finding skilled and experienced individuals to assemble a killer team for a startup is easier than before, since even skilled workers are not as up beat about their career prospects as they were before Monday. If ever, this is the time to go after that dream and assemble a killer team around your idea. Go for it!

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:42:23 +0000

I left Merrill Lynch about 6 months ago to work on NewsCred full time. Have never looked back – the best decision of my life probably. Startups are proof that ordinary people can do extraordinary things!

By: Stephen Kelly

Stephen Kelly — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:37:40 +0000

You forgot to mention that many startups are changing how things are done.

At a startup – you get more control over what happens with the company and you probably wont need to wear a suit

Steve