Is Liquid Glass not just a means to slowly force old phones to be obsolete? - My iPhone 11 is fairly slow now and they’ve probably bought forward my next phone purchase by a year
UK vs USA. You’re not wrong at all though. It’s also very interesting the lack of salary transparency that exists in the Uk. If you don’t poke your head around London, you can be blissfully unaware of the salaries that are available in Finance and broader tech scene in London. Given that many great UK universities exist outside of London, there will be PHDs who are unaware or don’t care about what they could be earning.
It looks like they recognise this failure “ In 2023 that purpose remains unchanged, but we are reassessing our founding assumptions and setting a course for the next five years”.
Quite what that course is, remains to be seen.
My personal experience is that the UK loves giving out funding to established/safe organisations that it knows won’t cause a (positive or negative) splash.
I’ve seen very few UK government initiatives funding genuinely small organisations, but of those that I’ve seen, they have been well executed.
Where in the world do you live and what social security systems are in place? What savings do you have?
Why do you want to start your own company? Is it because you’re sick of answering to people, or because you believe you have a genuine solution to a genuine need.
Aside from all of these points, the brutal reality of starting businesses is that it can be very risky and capital intensive, if you have doubts, you should consider why.
Over in the UK, many in the startup scene appear to be from upper middle class backgrounds or ex-bankers/finance. These people have security through assets they have inherited or earned.
Aside from that, you can be a contractor and grow your customer base from there, this is likely to be less risky.