[SiliconBeach] Re: Startmate outs its shortlist

2010-12-26 Thread Roy Hui
Dave, Congrats to Chorus! On Dec 25, 11:45 pm, Trindaz wrote: > Nice. I would have totally missed this one. > > Dave (Chorus cofounder) > > On Dec 24, 1:10 pm, Andrew Brereton wrote: > > >http://www.zdnet.com.au/startmate-outs-its-shortlist-339308229.htm > > > Good luck to the winners! -- Yo

Re: [SiliconBeach] Tax incentives for angels?

2010-12-26 Thread Elias Bizannes
Good responses, but it's not about the "government" doing anything and putting the burden on them. It's about the government tweaking its existing framework so that different behaviors emerge in the Australian ecosystem. That's a very different thing. If I have $50,000 I have the option to a) put

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: National Broadband Network Comments..

2010-12-26 Thread Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems
On that political note, I've been fascinated to see how the 'media play' aspects of the NBN have been kept out of the limelight. Our Free to Air broadcasters are heavily protected, highly profitable and politically powerful creatures. In the transition to digital TV a decade ago we were sold a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Tax incentives for angels?

2010-12-26 Thread David Lyon
It's an interesting topic. Actually Venture funding in the US is incredibly interesting. Thousands if not tens of thousands of people in the finance industry on the lookout for scrappets of tech that they can raise the value on. The have an entry value point and an exit value point. They keep the

[SiliconBeach] Re: National Broadband Network Comments..

2010-12-26 Thread Matthew Griffiths
I'm a huge supporter of disruptive technologies, and conceptually (like James) I see huge advantages from a fibre backbone... However, would I rather see a Maglev line down the East Coast for the same money ? (good question - no real answer) As for the NBN - the only thing fundamentally enabled b

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: National Broadband Network Comments..

2010-12-26 Thread Phil Sim
James, liked your 2 cents :-) To me, after having had countless debates on this issue with all manner of people, I think the fundamental mistake is to try and turn this into a business or even technological debate. For how many decades have the tech community screamed out for better broadband? Whe

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: National Broadband Network Comments..

2010-12-26 Thread James Purser
To be honest I think that paper starts on a flawed premise: "A decade ago telcos wasted billions of shareholders’ money on telecoms infrastructure that was well ahead of its time – governments are now in danger of doing the same with taxpayers’ money." We've had this argument thrown up by Malcolm