I have been lurking on silicon beach for a little while and figure its
time I introduced myself. I am a software developer based in
Melbourne. I have been writing software professionally for 15 years.
Additionally, I have been working on PhD relating to personalization
and the semantic web from wh
Joshua,
There are a lot of viable startups in Australia. There are some
that have even managed to stay and grow there :) I would say that if
the business lends itself to internet and word of mouth marketing like
a SaaS business (e.g. Atlassian) then you've got a good chance of
staying there. H
Thanks Niki for the answer.
It helps a lot.
-h
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From: "Niki Scevak"
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:42 AM
To: "Silicon Beach Australia"
Subject: [SiliconBeach] Re: Vesting - any impact on raising angel? Know any
good startup lawyer in Sy
Hendro, on the impact of vesting on an Angel investor's perception, I
don't know what investors you have been talking to but any sane/
rational one will look at vesting extremely favorably. Their
investment is only protected with founder vesting (if one of you
leaves his/her stake is increased as
One of the problems I often see with US software patents is that the
"non-obvious" step looks to be a bit of a joke, many seem completely
obvious to someone with any skill in the area. Perhaps a shorter time
frame would help ... or maybe different rules on what is obvious or not
for software a
Hi all,
Didn't know there was a thread for intro, so here's mine after lurking
in the forum for a while
My name is Khee Seng and I have been doing coding for more than two
decades. Done GW-Basic, Assembly, Clipper, Pascal, C++, Java, C# and
VB 6.
I have developed a call filtering software Calle
sounds like a great panel session for next growthtown.
All the comments are good and there is also a book from John Fisher called
"strategic entrepreneurism" (I've not read the book but know John - his last
company was in my segment and sold it to Oracle)
Given I've had successful and failed acqu
