[SiliconBeach] Re: any news on Commerialisation Australia grants

2010-02-15 Thread David Vandenberg
Also.. what do people put for "Explain why you cannot obtain financing from other sources."? I mean aren't there always other ways of financing commercialisation? They're just not as desirable as a repayable government grant. eg taking secuirty over personal assets, giving away equity, paying inter

[SiliconBeach] Re: any news on Commerialisation Australia grants

2010-02-15 Thread David Vandenberg
We're putting together an application at the moment for Wunderkind. The current application is for further commercialisation of our online training platform. However, we've got a second project for branded video recruitment which could also really do with financial help for commercialisation. Does

[SiliconBeach] Re: StartupCamp III - 19-21 Feb - Signup open now.

2010-02-15 Thread Jacob Watkins
Just noticed mor tix are now avalible! Cheers, Jacob On Feb 12, 9:43 pm, Tristan wrote: > If all the designer tickets fail to sell out, is it possible to use > remote designers who weren't able to make it?  I'm sure it wouldn't be > too hard to work with them on a brief if they're not at the eve

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: Learning salary expectations for developers

2010-02-15 Thread Bart Jellema
> Just remember if you are a start-up then the developer is going to want extra compensation > for the risk that you might be out of business soon. Really? I don't think every developer values the same things. And I don't think this will always reflect in the salary. It would seem more likely tha

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: Learning salary expectations for developers

2010-02-15 Thread Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems
Or they're going to appreciate being able to shape something and not just be a cog in a wheel they don't believe in... -Original Message- From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-austra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dale Sent: Tuesday, 16 February 2010 1:3

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Learning salary expectations for developers

2010-02-15 Thread Matthieu Stone
>>Just remember if you are a start-up then the developer is going to >>want extra compensation for the risk that you might be out of business soon. Share options are one way to cater for the risk. However thanks to some recent tax changes its not quite that simple now. -- You received this mess

[SiliconBeach] Re: Learning salary expectations for developers

2010-02-15 Thread Dale
Just remember if you are a start-up then the developer is going to want extra compensation for the risk that you might be out of business soon. Dale On Feb 16, 11:10 am, Jeromy Evans wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We're hoping to recruit a Java programmer with about 3 years > experience into a "sweep

[SiliconBeach] Learning salary expectations for developers

2010-02-15 Thread Jeromy Evans
Hi everyone, We're hoping to recruit a Java programmer with about 3 years experience into a "sweeper" role for our startup. I was wondering what techniques others use to suss out salary expectations to see when/if we can afford it. I don't won't to go down the recruitment process if we can't affor