[SiliconBeach] Re: Sales by suburb tool (feedback / trial users)

2011-10-09 Thread James Gilbert / Ideall.com.au
In that case i'd be happy to give you a try out, probably more suited for my other business www.solveitall.com.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It i

[SiliconBeach] Re: Sales by suburb tool (feedback / trial users)

2011-10-09 Thread Ryan
Hi James, It's not a competitor :) The current prototype is modeled around the traditional B2B sales process, not deals. It's a lead/crm/sales tool, think: salesforce.com Regards Ryan On Oct 10, 3:55 pm, "James Gilbert / Ideall.com.au" wrote: > I wonder if that's a competitor or partner for ou

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread Dominik Grabiec
Before we shutdown our previous project the intention was to go with a merchant account at one of the major banks, eWay as the payment gateway, and Spreedly as the recurring processor and CC database. At the time Spreedly was selected it had the best support for Australian payment gateways, and

[SiliconBeach] Re: Does the Innovation Dilemma effect you?

2011-10-09 Thread James Gilbert / Ideall.com.au
Hi, We are doing we webstart up and I would have to say that the innovator dilemma is a serious problem. Website's can be made for an ever decreasing cost, and anything other than trademark IP is an absolute nightmare. What it comes down to is that there are so many ways to offer an extremely

[SiliconBeach] Re: Sales by suburb tool (feedback / trial users)

2011-10-09 Thread James Gilbert / Ideall.com.au
I wonder if that's a competitor or partner for our model ? :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs pos

[SiliconBeach] Sales by suburb tool (feedback / trial users)

2011-10-09 Thread Ryan Henderson
Hi, We are currently developing a prototype sales tool that breaks leads up by region/suburb/postcode and then again by their current sales stage. We see this type of sales application being used by companies that: 1. They are looking to attain several clients/customers (typically b2b) per r

Re: [SiliconBeach] Website startup looking for feedback, app developers, funding ( possibly) and exposure !

2011-10-09 Thread James Gilbert / Ideall.com.au
Cheers simran, one final point of difference, the deals will appear on the businesses very own page, so we're not limited to our userbase, anybody who visits a particular biz can see these deals and buy them, incidentally this will force businesses to offer an actual discount, otherwise they'll

Re: [SiliconBeach] Website startup looking for feedback, app developers, funding ( possibly) and exposure !

2011-10-09 Thread simran
Thanks James. Love the idea, hope you are successful... i'll definitely be a visitor that will hopefully become a loyal visitor if the deals are good... I do think a lot of effort is needed to weed out the "mark them up to mark them down" deals... the days of "build it and they will come" for dea

Re: [SiliconBeach] Website startup looking for feedback, app developers, funding ( possibly) and exposure !

2011-10-09 Thread James Gilbert / Ideall.com.au
Hi simran, thanks for the feedback, search is one of our key features, so we are letting people search by text entry, price, discount, volume, location, etc ( lots of things ) An example can be found here http://solveitall.com.au/images/IDEALL/10053852-original.jpg Biz will be given a "Cust

Re: [SiliconBeach] Website startup looking for feedback, app developers, funding ( possibly) and exposure !

2011-10-09 Thread simran
Hi James, Great site... love the look and feel of it. A few thoughts (and a few questions): * I know you said, any deal... but are you going to have different verticals (when you have enough data; more than just an industry, but product types) as well? or is it more a whole bunch of stuff and we

[SiliconBeach] Re: Does the Innovation Dilemma effect you?

2011-10-09 Thread drllau
http://nanowares.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/logic-apparently-off-limits-in-the-law/ Nanotech has even worse issue in that all manufacturing is "free" (except for the first one). IP Insurance sounds good at first glance but when you look into the details there are a lot of CONTRADICTIONS. Stealing ..

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread Chris Were
I'm also looking into this. Here are two others you might want to look at: - www.fastspring.com - www.cheddargetter.com Cheers, Chris On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Ryszard wrote: > thanks for the tips Dom. We're pre launch, so waiting isnt really a > problem at this point. I read about

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread Ryszard
thanks for the tips Dom. We're pre launch, so waiting isnt really a problem at this point. I read about stripe on HN this morning actually, and i'm not sure how quick they'll be to the aussie market, probably slower than what i'd like. spreedly is a good lead tho' thx. ;-) On 10 October 2011 11:

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread Dominik Grabiec
There's also Spreedly (spreedly.com) which is a reoccuring billing service, they hook into eWay among other processors. If you could wait a while longer there's a new integrated payment system startup called Stripe (stripe.com), but as with most things they're USA only for now, hence the wait.

[SiliconBeach] Hackfest

2011-10-09 Thread pear...@pearing.com.au
Hello Everyone, Sorry if this is a repeat message. I attempted to send this message before, and when I hit "Post message" button, it asked me to log in and then did not seem to send the original message. Anywho... I am interested in hosting a hackfest for software engineers and related profession

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread Ryszard
good call patrick. I'm under no illusion as to how difficult building a billing system is :-) i've worked with some, have seen home grown versions, and have even in a previous life had a stab at it myself. its not a decision i would undertake on a whim. in light of there being actual services th

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread Patrick Collins
zuora and chargify both have good services and integrate to a lot of platforms. paypal can do it too. whatever you do, don't write your own... managing a billing process is way too much overhead for a startup. rebuild and replace it once you're making 10m revenue. if you insist on building your own

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread Ryszard
just to reply to myself here, last time i checked (a few months ago) i didnt notice that eway was a partner of chargify, it looks like the decisions have just been made, the guys at eway are really helpful. On 10 October 2011 05:45, Ryszard wrote: > great vincent, thx for the info.  paypal is som

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread Ryszard
great vincent, thx for the info. paypal is something i want to keep away from. co-incidently there was this on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3062473 about pay pal. i'll have to look into payment express. i guess the alternative is to actually write our own (do i see a gap in the aussie

[SiliconBeach] Re: Capital Gains Tax

2011-10-09 Thread Adrian Bunter
Get some appropriate tax advice. (This post isn't tax advice!) There are lots of things you can do, and lots of things you can't do... The other thing to remember is you can plan for the current tax situation, but you can't ensure that will be appropriate for the future. A couple of points: - yo

[SiliconBeach] Re: reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread VB
Hi Jason, I recommend looking at http://chargify.com and http://recurly.com My experience is with Chargify and the API is pretty good and you'll be able to build your app around it. You can also setup web hooks to get notified about expired credit cards, those type of events. Chargify can handle

[SiliconBeach] Re: Does the Innovation Dilemma effect you?

2011-10-09 Thread Oliver8008
The insurance covers the risk of having a competitor steal someones IP. The "victim" can then use the insurance money to sue those that stole it. It seems that even though companies do acquire IP and patents they often can not bother to chase those that steal it. This IP insurance may be a way

[SiliconBeach] Re: Does the Innovation Dilemma effect you?

2011-10-09 Thread robjames
I'm with Antony The secret is not in your idea, but your ability to execute it! Ideas are too overvalued, and I'm sure we all have at least a few a week, but in most instances, do nothing about it. Telling your idea to someone, they still have to believe in it, come up with a business model, devel

[SiliconBeach] Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-10-09 Thread robjames
Sorry all for my spam blast from LinkedIn. Quite sneaky actually, I thought I was logging on to linked in, but it was to send invites to all my email contacts! Serves me right for using the same password :-/ Rob On Oct 8, 8:55 am, Rob James wrote: > I'd like to add you to my professional netwo

[SiliconBeach] reoccurring billing (AUD)

2011-10-09 Thread Ryszard
HI all, In the (hopefully near) future I'll be launching a startup that requires a monthly billing cycle (as well as one off payments). I've checked out eway and am pretty impressed with them, however its not exactly what i'm after. integrating with eway would mean writing our own billing platfo