[SiliconBeach] Re: US$, payment gateways and other things to keep a start-up team up at night

2008-12-14 Thread spellrus
On Dec 15, 6:05 pm, "Mike Nicholls" wrote: > Hi Kevin > > Danny Lavecky the founder of Pure-Commerce is a mate of mine, I have BCCed > him on this, no doubt he or one of the team will get back to you shortly, Great thanks Mike. Will let you know outcome. Odd why Danny didn't pop into my head

[SiliconBeach] Re: Decision/relevancy algorithm... help!

2008-12-14 Thread Pat Allan
Hi Mike I think Chris' email is going to be far more useful to you than Sphinx, even if it's not a ready-made solution - it just doesn't sound like what you want to do fits Sphinx's approach. Cheers -- Pat On 15/12/2008, at 1:45 PM, gradconnection wrote: > > Thanks Pat, > > I had already

[SiliconBeach] Re: Decision/relevancy algorithm... help!

2008-12-14 Thread Chris Miles
Hi Mike, You might like to look at "Programming Collective Intelligence" http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ It contains a bunch of methods for ranking data and finding similarities based on user feedback and other relevancy factors. There should be enough information in there to keep you

[SiliconBeach] Re: US$, payment gateways and other things to keep a start-up team up at night

2008-12-14 Thread Mike Nicholls
Hi Kevin Danny Lavecky the founder of Pure-Commerce is a mate of mine, I have BCCed him on this, no doubt he or one of the team will get back to you shortly, Appreciate if you could share the outcome of your search as we need to US transactions shortly as well. Danny - Kevin is running a really

[SiliconBeach] Re: US$, payment gateways and other things to keep a start-up team up at night

2008-12-14 Thread spellrus
On Dec 15, 9:10 am, Luc Marin wrote: > Hi Kevin, > Your post has compelled me to finally press the "Join" button to > Silicon Beach :-)) Luc Thanks for your valuable insights. Even in these times of Web2.0 it seems like global ecommerce is not a simple thing! Apperantly AMEX Australia does

[SiliconBeach] Re: Decision/relevancy algorithm... help!

2008-12-14 Thread gradconnection
Thanks Pat, I had already come across sphinx when looking which is a good start. I am unfortunately using Java but there is an interface to sphinx for java. Not for searching, more to generate relevancy based on user requirements. So for example, we want to present graduate programs to graduates

[SiliconBeach] Re: US$, payment gateways and other things to keep a start-up team up at night

2008-12-14 Thread Luc Marin
Hi Kevin, Your post has compelled me to finally press the "Join" button to Silicon Beach :-)) I can give you some insight on how we set up things for DxO Labs (dxo.com) a software start-up based outside of the US (France) but where the US quickly became our first market. We operated through an e

[SiliconBeach] Re: Appxweb Meta - Am I Deluded

2008-12-14 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
I'm gonna be the voice of gloom, I'm afraid ;) Speaking as an OSS techo, I have a few comments, and they're all rolled into roughly the same point: There's a lot of competition in the space you appear to be positioned in, and you're going to struggle to get mindshare. Firstly, IE only suc

[SiliconBeach] Re: Job Board

2008-12-14 Thread Michael Specht
Casey, While I would recommend the guys at 2Vouch (not just cause they are a client of mine), go for Jobreel but also look at other approaches for getting your job out there (the SB Mailing list is a good one) there is also http://www.webfreelancers.com.au/ and many other small niche job boards

[SiliconBeach] The Big 100,000

2008-12-14 Thread Ross Hill
Whenever I hear about a web startup doing well the 100,000 number always seems to come up. Do you think a startup needs 100,000 members to be taken seriously? http://www.rosshill.com.au/article/lets-fill-the-melbourne-cricket-ground/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You recei

[SiliconBeach] Re: Job Board

2008-12-14 Thread casey
Riges, I have set up my http://2vouch.com account. Nice! Alex, I have put my job ad on http://jobreel.com.au/. Here is my pitch to the Silicon Beach Community: We are currently seeking a PHP developer. Job ad can be viewed here: http://jobreel.com.au/jobs/view/159 If you like our vision (below),

[SiliconBeach] Appxweb Meta - Am I Deluded

2008-12-14 Thread Ian Hart
Hi, I have recently released the next beta version of software that I have been developing. It’s essentially been a private project, which has taken me over 10 years to get to the point where the concepts are now a reality. It’s time to fully take the wrapping off it. The project is called Appxw

[SiliconBeach] Re: iPhone AppStore - Profitable Developers?

2008-12-14 Thread antonymd
Pure iPhone only apps are a waste of time and do not make enough to recoup the initial investment - I agree with Nick in that the environment is similar to f8, a bunch or junk no-one uses. Having said that games are doing okish... but that's about it, so perhpas build a good game, but it better b

[SiliconBeach] Re: Job Board

2008-12-14 Thread Alex North
Aussie start-ups might also like to post for free at http://jobreel.com.au/. You'll get many fewer applications than an ad on Seek, but of a much higher quality. Bring a little bit of web goodness to your search for employees with photos of your office, products and people, and be alerted of new po

[SiliconBeach] Re: Job Board

2008-12-14 Thread Riges Younan (JobGenie)
Hi Casey Our company 2Vouch is an Aussie start-up that has build a job referral site to do exactly what you've outlined below, but rather than just forwarding an email - we have built a platform that allows the advertiser and the referrer to track and monitor the job referrals they make and recei

[SiliconBeach] Re: iPhone AppStore - Profitable Developers?

2008-12-14 Thread Nick Holmes a Court
IMO The market for iPhone apps seems similar to the market for Facebook apps... I would speculate that other than a few outliers, the majority of the iphone/platform apps will be small value businesses that probably don't reward the developers with any real multiples of their time/cost :( I certa

[SiliconBeach] Re: Job Board

2008-12-14 Thread Elias Bizannes
Great idea! Sent from my iPhone On 14/12/2008, at 6:11 PM, Casey Butler wrote: > Welcome to the SiliconBeachAustralia job board!? > > I was thinking that Aussie startups could post job openings under > this topic. BUT, before each startup describes their job opening, > they should concisely