Comments for Martin Saunders - iPhone developer UK, Birmingham http://www.martingsaunders.com Web designer, iphone app developer and mobile game developer, entrepreneur and nerd. Birmingham & London UK. Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:42:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on The day I tried teaching primary school kids to code (and succeeded) by Ben Guise http://www.martingsaunders.com/2012/02/teaching-primary-school-kids-to-code/#comment-59 Ben Guise Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:42:50 +0000 http://www.martingsaunders.com/?p=116#comment-59 I recently introduced programming to my first graders through Kahn Academy. I showed them how you can go to Hypnoswirl (http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/hypnoswirl/826002294) and change the values, and then they “played around with the numbers.” I know it’s really basic, but it allows them to see what code looks like and also teaches them to connect changing numbers in code to changing the program.

I thought it was pretty cool, and they did too.

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]]> Comment on How to build a successful start-up ecosystem (in the UK) by weerdboil http://www.martingsaunders.com/2011/12/how-to-build-a-successful-start-up-ecosystem-in-the-uk/#comment-3 weerdboil Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:26:19 +0000 http://www.martingsaunders.com/?p=19#comment-3 Martin,

Interesting point you make about big UK companies not driving start-ups through acquisition (compared to US where it seems every man and his dog can achieve an early exit or aquihire with just a germ of an idea).

I run a few start-ups at different stages (a couple probably couldn’t be classed as start-ups anymore), and we’ve seen ourselves the power that small acquisitions can bring to even our modest operations in terms of building viable teams and tools for growth.

Dave

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