[SiliconBeach] Are you on Twitter?

2012-02-15 Thread Derek Winter
Hi All, I’ve set up a list for Silicon Beach twitter-ers. There’s 56 people from the Silicon Beach emails I've scanned so far on the list … there's bound to be plenty of other people, so if anyone else uses twitter, please let me know (offlist at derek.win...@ergoconsulting.com.au) and I’ll

[SiliconBeach] Re: Kickstarter Success - Adventure Game Funding

2012-02-15 Thread JINDOU
Hi there. @Ryan, +1 about your comments on having good videos/images etc. @Jason, let me share an experience we've had with a similar situation... In the past, we've run a small campaign on appbackr.com. Appbackr helps to get apps funded through crowdfunding. I met some of the Appbackr guys by

[SiliconBeach] Re: e-commerce platforms - what to use?

2012-02-15 Thread Bartek
I struggled with the same question myself. I ended up going with Shopify (http://www.shopify.com) simply to get my online shop (http:// www.inkdrop.com.au) up and running quickly. I'm hoping to redo it at some stage into my own hosted store using Opencart, but will be a while before I get around

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: e-commerce platforms - what to use?

2012-02-15 Thread Joe Ward
Btw: I swapped emails with the CEO of Magento (Roy Rubin) yesterday - he's on his way to Sydney. So if anyone catches up with him - please let me know as I'm working on a deal to test our mppCache Java acceleration software with the CTO and Founder before he leaves. So I'd appreciate any insights

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Kickstarter Success - Adventure Game Funding

2012-02-15 Thread Tom Dawkins
Just chipping in to echo Ryan's point - while over time a community is forming around Kickstarter and similar sites, that's not really how projects get funded - they succeed because the entrepreneur(s) behind it convene a specific community in support of that initiative. If you're selected as a

[SiliconBeach] Introduction

2012-02-15 Thread marc b
Hi all, I'm from France and I recently moved to Melbourne, the best city in Australia (that's what they said on the plane hehe). I've been working on personal projects for the last 2 years and had some successful projects. My main sources of income at the moment are a typing test website (25

[SiliconBeach] Pricing for SaaS

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Imstepf
Hi all, Yesterday we launched Teacher Time (http://app.teachertime.com.au), a platform for teachers to save and share resources. A school asked us today about our pricing, something we haven't finalised yet. We definitely want a subscription model and charge a certain amount per teacher/license

[SiliconBeach] Re: Pricing for SaaS

2012-02-15 Thread Rob Shea
Whatever the market will bear... as long as it covers expenses of course. How do you know? Ask them! Maybe you could set-up a free trial with a survey that included various feedback fishing, including budget questions. I think you'll find a huge divide between public and private schools as well

RE: [SiliconBeach] Pricing for SaaS

2012-02-15 Thread Alex Young
Hi Michael, We have a SaaS platform (http://buildAR.com) that enables people to quickly create mobile AR. We've found that a significant proportion of our customer base are from the education sector (global). We currently support individual pricing e.g. one user to an account. Educators are