Re: [SiliconBeach] crowdfunding: MEL event: Crowdfund Your Startup Thousands - oct 11

darren, you'll find a simple answer to your question in this blogpost: http://gusset.net/blog/2011/11/crowdsourcing/ for a more complex answer - the event is the place to be, and if you know you'll be using crowdsource funding in the future - a real value investment of both your time and money.

Re: [SiliconBeach] crowdfunding: MEL event: Crowdfund Your Startup Thousands - oct 11

I'm a panellist at this event There are also several growing Australian-based crowdfunding sites which will be covered in the workshop. How to choose the right platform for your venture is something we'll cover. Cheers! Tom -- Sent using large fingers on a small device, apologie

Re: [SiliconBeach] crowdfunding: MEL event: Crowdfund Your Startup Thousands - oct 11

http://www.assob.com.au Not unless you want the SEC to come down on you for jumping the gun. They are expected to release guidelines for crowd-INVESTING as compared with funding post Jan-2013. If you try to raise funds in Australia, then you have to be careful in following the ASIC guidelines f

Re: [SiliconBeach] Uber is coming to Sydney - and hiring!

Sorry, can I just ask hasn't this problem already been solved? It's called a taxi. On Saturday, September 29, 2012, Rod Clarke wrote: > Thanks so much for bringing Uber to Sydney - I'll be your first customer - > customers and dudes with S Classes desperately need this service. well done > guys!

Re: [SiliconBeach] crowdfunding: MEL event: Crowdfund Your Startup Thousands - oct 11

There are dozens of crowdfunding platforms out there and each have their own project selection and financial processing quirks. Indiegogo is one of the more internationally oriented ones. Or you could use something like Invest.in to create an individual crowdfunding project for your own sits. O

[SiliconBeach] Re: Show SB: Explainer videos by Explainers

Nice - good luck ! On Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:51:05 UTC+10, blindman2k wrote: > > Hi beachers, > > I thought I would try the HackerNews template format for the subject. To > me it works as a self-plug alert. And a self-plug this is but I will keep > it short. > > We decided that animated

[SiliconBeach] Re: Visual custom website design software?

This Answer to this is to build a SaaS web front end wysiwyg dev kit ontop of Heroku or Engine Yard. That way all of the dependencies and back end database tools are already in place and node.js etc are all kept up to date. Would need fast broadband though and local replication with Git / GITHUB

[SiliconBeach] Re: Uber is coming to Sydney - and hiring!

Thanks so much for bringing Uber to Sydney - I'll be your first customer - customers and dudes with S Classes desperately need this service. well done guys! On Friday, 28 September 2012 09:50:34 UTC+10, David Rohrsheim wrote: > > Hey Sydney, > > It's official, > @Uber_Sydney

Re: [SiliconBeach] Hiring developers and operations in India

Hi Richard, I had actually moved to India after raising money from an Indian HNI to start a mobile based real-time location-based ultra-personalised retail/loyalty system :) In my experience, remote interviews are like the lottery... probably a one in a 10 billion chance you'll strike it lucky (r

RE: [SiliconBeach] crowdfunding: MEL event: Crowdfund Your Startup Thousands - oct 11

Darren, No this is not correct, anyone can start a kickstarter campaign. In addition when it comes to crowdinvesting there is nothing stopping an Australian startup creating a Delaware based corporation and then raising money to fund their development for the team based in Australia...