[SiliconBeach] Re: Legal doc kit for startups

2010-10-27 Thread Mei
Interested and happy to help. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to silicon

[SiliconBeach] Special guest Lars Rasmussen, inventor of Google Maps/Wave, at Silicon Beach drinks tomorrow!

2010-10-27 Thread Kim Chen
Tomorrow is Friday and that means Silicon Beach drinks are on starting at 6 pm sharp at Bar77! Our special guest for tomorrow is Lars Rasmussen, inventor of Google Maps. He and his brother Jens were also originators of that other small project, Google Wave. Lars is leaving Australia in just a few

[SiliconBeach] Special guest Lars Rasmussen, inventor of Google Maps/Wave, at Silicon Beach drinks tomorrow!

2010-10-27 Thread Kim Chen
Tomorrow is Friday and that means Silicon Beach drinks are on starting at 6 pm sharp at Bar77! Our special guest for tomorrow is Lars Rasmussen, inventor of Google Maps. He and his brother Jens were also originators of that other small project, Google Wave. Lars is leaving Australia in just a few

[SiliconBeach] Re: NSW government @ it's best

2010-10-27 Thread alan jones
I'm still so angry about this decision I don't know where to begin. What an insane way to both announce and introduce new pricing policy. Cuba could have done it better. My brother sells and installs solar panels and he's probably just lost his job. And NSW just lost a chance to gradually start we

[SiliconBeach] Re: NSW government @ it's best

2010-10-27 Thread alan jones
I'm still so angry about this decision I don't know where to begin. What an insane way to both announce and introduce new pricing policy. Cuba could have done it better. My brother sells and installs solar panels and he's probably just lost his job. And NSW just lost a chance to gradually start we

[SiliconBeach] Need a second opinion on our Financial Projections

2010-10-27 Thread Aulay
We have been busy getting our startup (JustRosters.com.au) ready to pitch to potential investors. Part of that process has been creating a financial projections spreadsheet based on a popular template we downloaded. It would be great to get it checked by someone (preferably a qualified accountant)

[SiliconBeach] ANZA conference

2010-10-27 Thread Elias Bizannes
Hi everyone, I don't normally like to pimp out conferences, but there's a great Aussie-only conference that I think anyone in the US should attend (or watch remotely). Bardia Housman who is one of Australia's more recent successful tech entrepreneur's (the company behind Good Barry and before that

[SiliconBeach] Re: CreditorWatch is now Live

2010-10-27 Thread Dale
One more note: It turns out that B2B defaults is such a big problem the NSW Gov is looking for new solutions to servicing the needs of businesses: http://www.betterregulation.nsw.gov.au/targeted_reviews/review_of_the_debt_recovery_process Kind regards, Dale Dale Hurley Chief Technology Offi

[SiliconBeach] Re: Sydney based mobile marketing startup seeking entrepreneurial developer to help us take the next step

2010-10-27 Thread Digital Ministry
Bumping. Anyone? Developers with SMS/SMPP experience...call me. 0438 333 061 On a side note, things are blowing up here at Burst, we have been learning a lot and having fun along the way. We have made all the startup mistakes and hopefully are starting to break through. If anyone is interested in

[SiliconBeach] Re: Legal doc kit for startups

2010-10-27 Thread drllau
check out blog post by Brad Feld, also Angel List is supposed to have a set for essentially book-building angel syndicates. http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/03/the-proliferation-of-standardized-seed-financing-documents.html On Oct 28, 8:50 am, Marko wrote: > We need to put together an early

Re: [SiliconBeach] Legal doc kit for startups

2010-10-27 Thread Ben Sand
Very interested in the final product. Going full time on business in 3 weeks, will be able to help then. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Marko wrote: > Hello everyone, > > this idea started from my personal need to get together a legal doc > kit for our startup, but I think that there is a larg

[SiliconBeach] Legal doc kit for startups

2010-10-27 Thread Marko
Hello everyone, this idea started from my personal need to get together a legal doc kit for our startup, but I think that there is a larger problem that needs to be solved. We need to put together an early stage startup and seed funding document kit that is relevant to Australian startups. This d

[SiliconBeach] Re: CreditorWatch is now Live

2010-10-27 Thread Dale
Hi All Thank you for your feedback and comments. We have had some great feedback directly through the site to. Yes we do have plans to link into ASIC in 2011 through a sister company of ours. We understand that there is a likelihood that there will be some document uploads which are not truthful.

RE: [SiliconBeach] CreditorWatch is now Live

2010-10-27 Thread Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems
The ratio of malicious to scumbag in a B2B context is prob 1:1000. And it is scumbags being pointed at that make the most noise. Yelp has had similar issues. It you get push back and complaints then the business model is working, and you can address support and disputes. Given the scumbags have

[SiliconBeach] Re: Is it hard to get the money out of the Australians pocket?

2010-10-27 Thread drllau
Good question On Oct 13, 11:41 pm, Joshua Partogi wrote: > Can you share > your experience on approaching Australians to subscribe to your SaaS? > Do you find it harder or easier to convince Australians to get their > money out to pay for your products? I don't think Australians are any differen

[SiliconBeach] Re: Introduction

2010-10-27 Thread drllau
On Oct 26, 11:40 am, Geoff Langdale wrote: > I'd be > particularly interested to hear about any startups with more than the > average level of 'depth' in terms of algorithms and computer science. whilst not exactly common, the winner of the UQ Enterprise competition (Southern Innovation) is what

Re: [SiliconBeach] CreditorWatch is now Live

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Guilfoyle
Steve you raise some good points but I still think this is a good service and such things can be ironed out. It's not wrong, it's in it's infancy. D&B have been doing this for years along with a number of other agencies and they all do it on the quiet and people who have been reported never find o

Re: [SiliconBeach] CreditorWatch is now Live

2010-10-27 Thread Stephen Young
I'm sorry, I imagine these guys have the best of intentions but this is just wrong. There's no protection against malicious use of the service (load up a document? Oh please) There's no transparency - you can't easily explore or find out about any malicious use. There's no recognition that some di

[SiliconBeach] NSW government @ it's best

2010-10-27 Thread rgh....@gmail.com
Today the NSW Premier announced an effective of cancelling the NSW solar energy market. http://www.premier.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/101027-Solar-Bonus-Scheme_0.pdf It reduced the solar Feed-in-Tariff from $0.60 to $0.20. This decision has probably cost up to 5,000 jobs and up to $4 billion

Re: [SiliconBeach] CreditorWatch is now Live

2010-10-27 Thread Nick Gonios
Nice work Dale! Seems like a simple yet important business need you're solving. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Dale wrote: > Hi All > > We have launch CreditorWatch - http://creditorwatch.com.au > > As friends of Silicon Beach we have setup a promo code that will not > be ever matched aga