[SiliconBeach] Re: apps4nsw dev day

2011-02-01 Thread Jeromy Evans
Their tweet stream suggests the winner was announced in June 2010: http://twitter.com/#!/apps4nsw I think the competition was launched in about December 2009. Their heart's in the right place. Coincidentally the CTO behind NuMaps lives near me and I remember him saying the announcement was timed

Re: [SiliconBeach] apps4nsw dev day

2011-02-01 Thread Rex Chung
I remember when I checked for the winners last year, they had no updates 3 months after the competition? When did they finally announce the winner? Rex Chung --- ph: +61 421 591 943 http://www.rorcraft.com  - Ruby on Rails

[SiliconBeach] Australian Startup Show

2011-02-01 Thread Owen Kelly
Hey everyone, I received a bit of feedback from my introductions post last week about a startup show. I have been looking at producing one, so I am pretty keen to get it off the ground, but I will need your help. At the moment I am planning 2 shows. The first of which is a radio style show in

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread David Lyon
Hi Dylan, It's not so much about complaining. It's just startups can be entry level things. Startup type people might be looking for jobs for themselves to fund their own startup or might be looking for people of a similar ilk to do work in an existing startup. This isn't really a category of jo

[SiliconBeach] Re: Australian IP Litigation

2011-02-01 Thread Guy Tucker
Hi Ben, I've just recently joined this group. IP lawyers are the people usually responsible for handling litigation matters (however, they may also enrol the services of a barrister). An IP lawyer is different to a Patent Attorney (I am a Patent Attorney) who provides advice on how to protect yo

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread Dylan Jay
Option 5: don't prematurely optimise. I've not seen anyone complain about too many people posting job ads or looking for work. There are plenty of options out there to find people or jobs. --- Dylan Jay Technical Solutions Manager PretaWeb: reducing duplication in the government web. P: +61

[SiliconBeach] apps4nsw dev day

2011-02-01 Thread Jeromy Evans
Developers on this list looking for something to create may be interested in the new apps4nsw dev day: http://bit.ly/f0IlZi (link to an eventbrite page for the event on 19 Feb 2011, via Web Directions mailing list) The main apps4nsw site is down at the moment but here's an article on techworld ab

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread Clifford Heath
On 02/02/2011, at 10:23 AM, David Lyon wrote: Well, I think there are three schools of thought: Option 4: Provide a second email list, but aggregate it into a daily digest forwarded to SB. Limits SB postings to one per day, discards incorrect ones, can still be filtered based on ta

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread David Lyon
Well, I think there are three schools of thought: Option 1 : Direct email to this list of a job by anybody with a set subject that can easily be filtered by the user by adding a subject filter. Very simple. Would work with multiple external sources. D

[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread Geoff Langdale
Jeez you guys overcomplicate things. All of these proposals involve a whole lot of moving parts when everyone already is used to using Google Groups and has identities here already. For what it's worth, I think we should just make a sub-group that people can read as they see fit. If the tumbleweed

[SiliconBeach] Re: Where to buy a trade show booth?

2011-02-01 Thread Jason Seed
Mike, In the past I have managed to get great 2nd hand booths, there are a bunch of companies that deal in them. e.gg http://www.exhibittrader.com/ On Jan 31, 2:25 am, Mike Zimmerman wrote: > We are thinking of buying a trade show booth for our various > conferences. > > Anyone have any exper

[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach or other startup gatherings in Melbourne

2011-02-01 Thread Humphrey
Hi Andrew, Thanks for the mention. Yuval maybe subscribe to startupdigest.com and select melbourne as your city of preference. We then send an email each monday listing events happening in Melbourne each week. There used to be a Silicon Beach melbourne drinks but I think some people tried to move

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread Paul Jones
Andrew - no worries. The Synadias address (silicon-beach-j...@synadias.com) is live now, so I think the first step for implementation would be for anyone with jobs to offer (or needs for one) to vote with their email clients and send details to it. If we can establish precedent, then I'm sure it w

[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread Andrew Dowling
@Paul -- I wrote my last post without having seen your post about synadias. This looks very interesting & would be worth trying out. Would still need a mention on the home page that this was the preferred approach for SB with appropriate instructions though ... which I'd be fine with as long as it

[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread Andrew Dowling
Pleasantly surprised to see such a quick response to my far-too-long post. Several suggestions in there, any of which would work as an acceptable solution. (Shame snowballer is down right now -- looking forward to when it's back up so I can check it out.) I think the key, though, is SB getting beh

Re: [SiliconBeach] Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread Paul Jones
As Elias mentioned, we've been discussing ways of improving communication on SiliconBeach - especially around topics that have the potential to become quite noisy. To that end, myself and Ash Angell have been building an application for curating and distributing content within communities - http://

[SiliconBeach] Re: Interesting stats on US VC firms

2011-02-01 Thread David R
Hi Lawrence, The figures here are consistent with another set I have seen showing that venture capital funds overall have sucked more money in than they have ever turned out. However, discussions I had with VCs when I was at business school was more around the venture capital business model than

[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Rules for Job Postings

2011-02-01 Thread Matthew Ho
there's a few options out there disclosure: I run a job news aggregator website called www.jobcrunch.com.au there's white label job board websites you can use. for example 1. http://www.jobberbase.com/. real life example: http://socialmediajobs.com.au/ which is run by a contact of mine @servan

Re: [SiliconBeach] Structures for For Profit Companies with a Social Mission

2011-02-01 Thread Brendan Quinn
Hi Ben, Not really answering your question, but to give you a UK perspective: For what it's worth, CICs in the UK don't have any tax benefit status, they are taxed like any other limited company. The only real benefit is in "state of mind" and marketing purposes. It does have restrictions on how