[SiliconBeach] Re: Startup Weekend Melbourne - anyone going to this?

I will be there. It sounds interesting. On May 4, 3:02 pm, Matthew Ho wrote: > I've registered for this event called Startup Weekend Melbourne > > Its on this Friday night through til Sunday. > > Anyone else going? > > http://melbourne.startupweekend.org/event/ -- You received this message beca

[SiliconBeach] Re: Startup Weekend Melbourne - anyone going to this?

I thought we all had to pitch and then form teams based on those pitches? I haven't been to a startup weekend / startup bootcamp event before, so I'm not really sure what to expect. I'm in Melb for the next few days, and thought i'd sign up. If anyone has any advice on what to expect and how to g

RE: [SiliconBeach] Startup Weekend Melbourne - anyone going to this?

Yes I am! Are you pitching? Dominique du Maurier -Original Message- From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Ho Sent: Wednesday, 4 May 2011 3:02 PM To: Silicon Beach Australia Subject: [SiliconBeach] Startup Week

[SiliconBeach] Startup Weekend Melbourne - anyone going to this?

I've registered for this event called Startup Weekend Melbourne Its on this Friday night through til Sunday. Anyone else going? http://melbourne.startupweekend.org/event/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discus

[SiliconBeach] Re: Job with Better Place in Melbourne (C# and Java)

It is an interesting company, which I am sure we will hear much more about in the coming months and years. Shai Agasi name is synonym to success in hebrew... not just some guy that worked in SAP :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi The story says the Shimon Peres, Israeli president, talk

[SiliconBeach] EA acquires Firemint!

Nobody's posted this, so in case you haven't seen: Firemint, the big iPhone game studio in Melbourne, just got acquired by EA! http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/03/ea-buys-firemint-creator-of-flight-control-mobile-game/ They'd been doing really well -- winning Apple Design Awards, and announcing 4+

[SiliconBeach] Intro

Hi all, A little intro, so I am not tarred and feathered as a lurker :-) I'm a JavaScript developer and not long returned to Oz from Silicon Valley. I was most recently at AdMob, a mobile ad network acquired by Google last year, which was fun for a while (and then things got interesting, http:

[SiliconBeach] Job with Better Place in Melbourne (C# and Java)

Pretty interesting company here is hiring a programmer for what looks like a bit of a mixed role doing web apps and some application integration work. Would be a pretty interesting place to work I reckon. They're the guys trying to bring electric cars to the masses. Founded by an ex- tech guy ca

Re: [SiliconBeach] Tech company tax structures

Hi Mahesh, Look up the term Double Irish and how Google is using it to their advantage. It's the reason that most of the major software corporations have their European headquarters set up in Ireland. Microsoft, Facebook, Dell to name a few of them. Jonathan On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:03 AM, mah

[SiliconBeach] Tech company tax structures

Hi guys, Mahesh Sharma, freelance journalist I write a column on startups (zdnet.com.au/blogs/bootstrappr). How's it going? I just wanted to sound out the community about technology company tax structures. The Herald recently published a piece about Google's corporate structure and how much tax i

[SiliconBeach] Member Value Management

Thought some people here might be interested on this content around designing a member based business, from last weeks Churchill Club event in Melbourne. I thought it was significant that of the 3 organisations with paid up members: - Artshub with 7,000 members had 3 membership packages, - Environ

[SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Friday in Melbourne on 6 May (a female-focused event)

Thanks Matt. Will take a look. I always try to keep across great content on the subject matter, and for anyone else interested – there's quite a collection of 'women+tech' links in my Delicious here: http://bit.ly/lkAmBA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Be

[SiliconBeach] Mark Suster addresses the Dilemma Services or Products ?

very interesting considering the AUS early stage VC drought and the path many tech businesses here in AUS take starting out in services http://ceomag.in/mark-suster-addresses-the-dilemma-services-or-products/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach

[SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Friday in Melbourne on 6 May (a female-focused event)

There is also Mary Brittain-White from Retriever Communications (http://www.retrievercommunications.com/) who started Retriever using the SaaS model prior to 2000. On Apr 24, 8:28 pm, Kate Kendall wrote: > I just wanted to post this event in the odd chance there are female > entrepreneurs and sta