[SiliconBeach] Google Sydney Contacts

2011-06-05 Thread Humphrey
Hi All, I am testing the waters on a new project and would really appreciate it if anyone has a direct contact within Google Sydney HQ who deals with earning cash from embedding Google Search Box. I have read about Adsense for Search and Adsense for Content but I was looking more people involved

[SiliconBeach] Re: Scrum Indonesia gathering

2011-06-05 Thread Joshua Partogi
I am terribly sorry. Please disregard this message. I posted it to the wrong mailing list. Kind regards, Joshua. On Jun 6, 12:32 pm, Rai wrote: > Email ni untuk Silicon Beach atau siapa? > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > > Hola, > > > Awal Juli saya rencan

Re: [SiliconBeach] Scrum Indonesia gathering

2011-06-05 Thread Rai
Email ni untuk Silicon Beach atau siapa? On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > Hola, > > Awal Juli saya rencana ke Jakarta. Ada yang mau gathering ndak? Saya > pengen ketemuan ama temen2 scrummers buat sharing2 implementasi scrum > di organisasinya, terutama yang januari kemar

Re: [SiliconBeach] Scrum Indonesia gathering

2011-06-05 Thread Joshua Partogi
Whoops. Sorry, posted to wrong mailing list. =D On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > Hola, > > Awal Juli saya rencana ke Jakarta. Ada yang mau gathering ndak? Saya > pengen ketemuan ama temen2 scrummers buat sharing2 implementasi scrum > di organisasinya, terutama yang januari

[SiliconBeach] Scrum Indonesia gathering

2011-06-05 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hola, Awal Juli saya rencana ke Jakarta. Ada yang mau gathering ndak? Saya pengen ketemuan ama temen2 scrummers buat sharing2 implementasi scrum di organisasinya, terutama yang januari kemarin ikutan workshop. Kemungkinan gathering di daerah Citos gituh buat ngobrol2. Tanggal pastinya nanti saya k

[SiliconBeach] Re: Is social networking commercially viable in Australia?

2011-06-05 Thread Matthew Ho
Yes, but there are several factors at play here. There are social networks that make money, its just harder to do. You need significant scale for a social network to make money from ODA (online display advertising). LinkedIn and RSVP have a niche audiences and also multiple revenue streams. Linked

[SiliconBeach] Re: Congrats to Elias on his new role

2011-06-05 Thread Phil M
Great job Elias! We should try to catch up in SF in the next few weeks, once you settle into your new role. In addition to my work at VMware I am advising a venture fund and about to join the board of another startup - VMware is extremely supportive of entrepreneurial activities. Phil Montgomery

Re: [SiliconBeach] Is social networking commercially viable in Australia?

2011-06-05 Thread James Hilton
Interesting.. LinkedIn makes money from paying members. And Whirlpool.net.au must make a fortune from it's 30 million post forum. There's also dating sites that charge for membership and they don't seem to be going anywhere.. RSVP comes to mind. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Joshua Partog

Re: [SiliconBeach] Finding your first customers

2011-06-05 Thread James Hilton
Hi Adam, I personally don't see value in the site the way it is right now, but I could definitely see the value in a site where one startup is shown every day, and a community of passionate founders/designers/programmers have the opportunity to give constructive criticism on it in the form of a di

Re: [SiliconBeach] Finding your first customers

2011-06-05 Thread Richard Buggy
My personal favourite is building a landing page that subscribes people to a mailing list. You'll want to make the landing page look like you have a product in private beta and that by registering they'll get an invitation soon. Finally you buy traffic using PPC to test it. This works well on so m

Re: [SiliconBeach] Finding your first customers

2011-06-05 Thread nickhac
Want new customers? 1. Make a list your dream customers by market segment 2. Segment them by how much they are likely to pay and how quickly they could purchase 3. Pick up the phone to the most valuable and fastest purchasers and go and meet them face to face. 4. Ask them to purchase and docume

Re: [SiliconBeach] Finding your first customers

2011-06-05 Thread Richard Buggy
Hi Adam I think it sounds a lot like http://startupli.st/ or http://betacandy.com/ with elements of http://appsumo.com/. Rich On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Adam Brimo wrote: > Hey all, > > I've just started a company with one of my friends and now we are > working on getting our first cus

[SiliconBeach] Is social networking commercially viable in Australia?

2011-06-05 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi, One of the criteria for submitting application to Startmate is that it must be a business that does not depend its revenue from advertising. >From what I can see, social networking is one type of business where it gets its revenue from advertising. Looking at that criteria, does that mean busi

[SiliconBeach] Re: Introduction + topic starter

2011-06-05 Thread cie-unsw
Here are a few additional thoughts we pulled together on how and at what age entrepreneurship can be taught: http://www.bhert.com/publications/newsletter/BHERTNews29.pdf (p. 12 is where it's at) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list.

[SiliconBeach] iOS Developer Conference - One More Thing

2011-06-05 Thread Anthony Agius
Hey guys, There's probably a few of you here who are thinking about some sort of iPhone or iPad related business - so you may be interested in a conference I'm kick starting called One More Thing: http://onemorething.com.au The focus of the conference is not on code, or design, but mainly on tell

[SiliconBeach] Re: Congrats to Elias on his new role

2011-06-05 Thread Roy Hui
Grats Elias! On Jun 5, 10:34 am, "Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer)" wrote: > Oh dear, back to the big, safe, corporate world for Elias. What, can't > hack the startup pace? Why don't you just go back to PWC! > > ;-) > > Congrats mate. See you in the Mission for a burrito the size of a > small c

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: Introduction + topic starter

2011-06-05 Thread Dominique du Maurier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U A great point of view - By Sir Ken Robinson Dominique -Original Message- From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Darren Sent: Saturday, 4 June 2011 8:30 PM To: silicon-beach-a

[SiliconBeach] Finding your first customers

2011-06-05 Thread Adam Brimo
Hey all, I've just started a company with one of my friends and now we are working on getting our first customers. I read a lot of articles about the topic and it seems everyone faces the same challenges. So I was thinking of creating a place where startups could post their upcoming or newly rel

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Introduction + topic starter

2011-06-05 Thread Darren
Hi Brendon and to the rest of the gang particating in this tread. Just want to say, if there was a facebook like button here (Yeah! Right!) I would be liking the last quote Brendon made alot "There's no point learning about entrepreneurship in a classroom unless you're actually trying to ru