Re: [SiliconBeach] How much salary for a founder to take ?

2011-07-18 Thread Jonathon Blackford
I'm glad you raised the FBT issue, although maybe Elias has some tricks up his sleeve. I like to think of it like this... You own X shares in the company. Your investors own Y shares. Z shares are unallocated. The company has $A in cash. There are a certain number of tasks that need to be done

[SiliconBeach] Tech23

2011-07-18 Thread Rob Manson
The Tech23 program was announced today and just wanted to say congratulations to all the people selected. http://www.slatteryit.com.au/Tech23-2011/program.html We're really happy that MOB's http://buildAR.com has been selected too and I can't wait to see everyone's presentations

Re: [SiliconBeach] Tech23

2011-07-18 Thread Sheng Yeo
Great! Looking forward to seeing you there Rob :-).. OrionVM will also be taking part! Congrats to everyone who is participating! *Sheng* *Yeo* Director | Founder *Orion Virtualisation Solutions* | www.orionvm.com.au | Phone: 1300 56 99 52 | Mobile: 0402 098 008 | Skype: shengyeo On 18 July

Re: [SiliconBeach] SMSF Application

2011-07-18 Thread David Northmore
Hi Rich Moneytree Partners (based in Bathurst street) are expert in this area. They have free lunch time seminars and also internal accountants. Here one of their ebooks on SMSF and property http://www.wealthadviser.com.au/view/how-to-buy-a-property-with-a-super-fund If you do call them ask for

[SiliconBeach] Re: How much salary for a founder to take ?

2011-07-18 Thread Vamsi Gullapalli
Thanks for the advice everyone , it's been very helpful. Not too sure on using the company credit card to pay for small expenses, but at around the $30K per year mark taxes are minimal so I think that might be the sweet spot for me assuming of course the funding is successful. Oh here's my

Re: [SiliconBeach] SMSF Application

2011-07-18 Thread Suhit Anantula
Thanks Rich. I agree. If you do not get many responses we can take this offline. Hi David. I will check them out. I am in Adelaide though. Cheers Suhit On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:16 PM, David Northmore david.northm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Rich Moneytree Partners (based in Bathurst street) are

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Australia / jobs

2011-07-18 Thread Alex North
It certainly looks good. I mean this in a completely non-facetious way: can it send me email when new jobs are posted? I looked around, but couldn't find that functionality. (Yes, I know I could hack the RSS feed through a mail notifier or something). A. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:02 PM,

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Australia / jobs

2011-07-18 Thread Alex North
Whoa now, I posted a job and it sent my password back to me in plaintext email! C'mon, that's 1990's security naivete. Say what you will about people using good passwords (I did in fact use a unique and very strong password, but suspect I'm in a tiny minority of people who would), the plain fact

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Australia / jobs

2011-07-18 Thread Alexander Levashov
Title: Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Australia / jobs People who care about security should have different password for different services. There are plenty of tools that can help you generate and store an individual password of good length for every website you use. IMO free job board

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Australia / jobs

2011-07-18 Thread dave b
On 18 July 2011 23:02, Alexander Levashov alex.levas...@gmail.com wrote: People who care about security should have different password for different services. There are plenty of tools that can help you generate and store an individual password of good length for every website you use. IMO

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Australia / jobs

2011-07-18 Thread Elias Bizannes
Hmm weird. Thanks for mentioning that. No quick fix so will need to wait when we do something on the authentication -- my ideal scenario is that we leverage the Google accounts we use for this forum and make this site an OpenID relying party. In the mean time, no one but me has access to the

[SiliconBeach] Offer Template for Capital raising

2011-07-18 Thread Bob Ilievski
Dear Frozen beach at least this is what the weather feels like right now in Melbourne. I would like to reach out to you all for some help or advise if anyone is willing to share a template for an Offer for Capital raising or at very least advise what are the heading which need to be covered in

Re: [SiliconBeach] Offer Template for Capital raising

2011-07-18 Thread Alexander Levashov
Hi Bob, the structure I saw was something like that: Intro Terms of financing Preferences (several clauses about protection and preferences for your investor like anti-dilution, liquidation preferences, founder vesting, etc, whatever you are ready to offer); Voting rights Board of Director

[SiliconBeach] Re: Offer Template for Capital raising

2011-07-18 Thread grecko
only read this quick but the americans have good templates for various raises such as: http://www.seriesseed.com/posts/2010/09/version-20-and-why-series-seed-documents-are-better-than-capped-convertible-notes.html techstars did something too i think On Jul 19, 8:54 am, Bob Ilievski

[SiliconBeach] Web Marketing Co-founder

2011-07-18 Thread Faycal
Hi everyone, We are launching a sydney-based start-up and are looking for a young Community Manager to join the founding team. If interested, send an e- mail to fa...@hotmail.com and I'll be able to give you more details as the project is well underway. Cheers Faycal -- You received this

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Australia / jobs

2011-07-18 Thread Dylan Jay
On 18/07/2011, at 11:04 PM, dave b wrote: On 18 July 2011 23:02, Alexander Levashov alex.levas...@gmail.com wrote: People who care about security should have different password for different services. There are plenty of tools that can help you generate and store an individual password

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Australia / jobs

2011-07-18 Thread Elias Bizannes
Finally got a chance to test this out myself (yep, issue confirmed) and found something interesting: it turns out the passwords are hashed in the database and they are treated like any other wordpress user (just with a different role type). Elias Bizannes http://eliasbizannes.com *Coming to a

[SiliconBeach] G'day all

2011-07-18 Thread Graham Carey
Hi all, Just introducing myself. My name is Graham Carey and I've been around the IT industry since I graduated in '95. I've have a strong programming background and been lucky to work at a few of the startups that were around in the early 2000s. Some of them are even still going! I've got an

[SiliconBeach] Re: Client management hosted solution with ticketing and invoicing

2011-07-18 Thread David
For billed-by-the-hour invoices, +1 To Harvest Time for time tracking www.getharvest.com If you do a lot of fixed-price quotes or are happy itemising invoices yourself, you can use the manual invoicing that comes with both the Xero and Saasu online accounting packages. They offer automatic

[SiliconBeach] Re: Client management hosted solution with ticketing and invoicing

2011-07-18 Thread David
For billed-by-the-hour invoices, +1 To Harvest Time for time tracking www.getharvest.com If you do a lot of fixed-price quotes or are happy itemising invoices yourself, you can use the manual invoicing that comes with both the Xero and Saasu online accounting packages. They offer automatic