Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Squarespace....for Australian businesses...latency, integration etc...reviews, thoughts, opinions, advice.

2010-09-26 Thread Nick Marfleet
Hi Liam, Not trying to make your decision even more painful, but if you want a SAAS CMS that is australian built and hosted (low latency!) then you might want to take a look at www.blocksglobal.com - Disclaimer: Yes I am part of the Blocks team! Not trying to sell to you here - we may

[SiliconBeach] Re: Is there really a lack of VC funding in AU?

2010-09-26 Thread Humphrey
Well said Dan. Totally Agree. On Sep 26, 3:37 pm, Daniel Purchas purc...@gmail.com wrote: From what I've seen so far in my travels and from my experiences, I would definitely for a first time founder favour bootstrapping until you get market fit for your services/products and then if you're

[SiliconBeach] Re: Squarespace....for Australian businesses...latency, integration etc...reviews, thoughts, opinions, advice.

2010-09-26 Thread SoccerFit
Thanks Nick, Initial reaction...oh no here we go again...but it's great to know that there is something local-based available. Actually, and I don't know why I didn't put this in earlier...here is a useful comparison table I found...

[SiliconBeach] Director's Insurance - anyone have experience with it?

2010-09-26 Thread Malcolm Lambert
Hi SB's. I'm preparing my company, Intresto (www.intresto.com.au), for its first outing in front of investors/JV partners and have asked an experienced business owner friend/advisor to come on board as a non- executive director. I want to reduce his exposure to any potential future liabilities the

[SiliconBeach] This week's Startup Digest Sydney and Melbourne

2010-09-26 Thread Bart Jellema
Highlighted Events Sydney Lean Start-up Circle When: Tuesday, September 28, 6:30pm - 8:00pm Where: Pollenizer Offices, Level 1, 65-67 Foveaux St, Surry Hills More info:

Re: [SiliconBeach] Director's Insurance - anyone have experience with it?

2010-09-26 Thread David Jones
Having recently built a few sandstone retaining walls this would have been very handy - could you do a SaaS version with a iPhone/Android client? :) re:DO DO is the standard method. Its normal for investors to write DO requirement into a term sheet anyway (if they take a board seat) so you could

[SiliconBeach] CRM system suggestion (real experience)

2010-09-26 Thread Jeromy Evans
Hi everyone, We recently purchased a 3 month trial of salesforce.com enterprise edition to see if we can establish some systematic processes and automation before making a larger commitment to a tool. Half-way through I've been disappointed with it. Salesforce.com has a strong model tracking

[SiliconBeach] Re: Paypal Australia Contact?

2010-09-26 Thread Jeromy Evans
I had no luck with @PayPalXau, which is understandable as they're not likely to respond to a random person with an account question. After a 48 hour wait, their compliance team sent the exact same template email, so Paypal and I are parting ways. (The issue was that the Pty Ltd company is a

Re: [SiliconBeach] CRM system suggestion (real experience)

2010-09-26 Thread Chris Were
Hi Jeromy, I don't have a silver bullet, but I regularly build and deploy hosted SugarCRM instances for clients that can do all the things you are after. Overall SugarCRM works well, but can also be a bit clunky at times. Either way, check it out if you haven't already. Cheers, Chris On Mon,

Re: [SiliconBeach] CRM system suggestion (real experience)

2010-09-26 Thread Matthieu Stone
Hi Jeremy, One side of our business does pretty much exactly what you describe. We also looked at Salesforce.com thought it just was not for us. We now use SugarCRM, hosted customised by ITonTap.com - they have a number of other event based companies as clients so we all share the benefits.

[SiliconBeach] Re: Director's Insurance - anyone have experience with it?

2010-09-26 Thread Malcolm Lambert
Thanks David for the info on DO. So you've felt the pain. That's goodin a perverse kind of way. Yes, a SaaS version is possible and maybe even a stand-alone hand-held version. Still pre-product prototype, but it works, which is good. Malcolm On Sep 27, 12:06 pm, David Jones