[SiliconBeach] Intro and Intro

2011-05-12 Thread Liam
Hi, I have been lurking here for a while now, I have met a few of you at the various SB events over the past few months. It's a pretty impressive group and Sydney would be a sad place without it. I have been involved in the startup scene in the US Ireland since early 2000, mostly in the data

[SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Ho
great insights, thanks Laurence. I've spoken to a few people, and October seems to be a good time as there's a few tech event's I'm interested in. Techcrunch Disrupt will be in Beijing for the first time and AllThingsD in HK. There's also a few local startup meetups in HK too. I read this

[SiliconBeach] Non-Technical Co Founders

2011-05-12 Thread lucractius
A while ago there was some discussion on what people could do in order to better approach the problem of needing a 'technical' person to help validate co found their startups.  I have begun to ponder the alternative situation to this. What can someone who is up to their neck in the technical

[SiliconBeach] Re: And what about the marketing/sales?

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Bayley
Re: PPC Do it yourself. Its really really important and nowadays astonishingly easy. Re: Online Advertising Try every type of ad available (PPC, CPA/performance display, Facebook ads, Adwords retargeting, YSM (Yahoo/Bing), mobile (10% of all searches in 2011 will be on mobile, get it while its

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: And what about the marketing/sales?

2011-05-12 Thread Patrick Collins
Fantastic advice Chris. Thank you. I especially like the comment re KPI'ing a curious developer on SEO results... difficult to do I'd imagine but I can see how it would drive results. Patrick Sent from my iPhone On May 12, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Chris Bayley cbay...@gmail.com wrote: Re: PPC Do

[SiliconBeach] Re: Intro and Intro

2011-05-12 Thread Humphrey
Just looked at your website and there is no call to action. What do you want me to do on it? :) On May 12, 5:35 pm, Liam liam.conno...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have been lurking here for a while now, I have met a few of you at the various SB events over the past few months. It's a pretty

[SiliconBeach] Re: Zoho

2011-05-12 Thread Humphrey
Thanks Rebecca and Liam :) On May 11, 9:38 pm, SoccerFit lia...@soccerfit.com.au wrote: Yes, I'm quite a Zoho fan. From reading around the place...it may not be as feature rich as Salesforce...but the price point probably compensates. A person suggested to me too some time ago that

[SiliconBeach] Re: Non-Technical Co Founders

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Ho
I agree with this comment. most disruptive innovative ideas products tend to come from 'product minded' 'technical focused' people, the very sort that may struggle to get their ideas 'incorporated' despite having all the technical acumen or the design skills required to make extraordinary

[SiliconBeach] Re: Non-Technical Co Founders

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Ho
apologies for the double post, but just read this blog post now from Elias on this exact topic: http://eliasbizannes.com/blog/2011/05/im-a-hustler-baby/ Worth reading. On May 13, 6:33 am, Matthew Ho matt.h...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with this comment.  most disruptive innovative ideas

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2011-05-12 Thread Trindaz
I just discovered this blog and thought I'd share it (wish I'd found it sooner). The detail heavy ones are my faves. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion:

[SiliconBeach] Call for nominations: X Media Lab Global Media Ideas Lab

2011-05-12 Thread Caroline_Shawyer
Hi Silicon Beachers! I thought you may be interested in knowing that X Media Lab Global Media Ideas conference and lab is back as part of Vivid Sydney and we are currently on the hunt for 16 digital projects to take part in our exclusive two-day mentoring lab. XML: Global Media Ideas consists of