Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Why won't superannuation funds invest in startups?

2012-11-01 Thread Bart Jellema
Before we talk about getting super funds to invest we need to have something for them to invest into... I think VC industry in Australia has been high risk, low return... Also, Australian VCs are no longer investing in software/web, so it wouldn't help anyway. But there's StartMate and Blackbird

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Why won't superannuation funds invest in startups?

2012-11-01 Thread caseyjohnellis
Good to have you back home Bart ;) On Thursday, November 1, 2012 5:15:57 PM UTC+11, Bart Jellema wrote: Before we talk about getting super funds to invest we need to have something for them to invest into... I think VC industry in Australia has been high risk, low return... Also,

Re: [SiliconBeach] It’s time you got some credit for the work you do...

2012-11-01 Thread Alex North
There's no category for back-end or generalist engineers? We do do half the work in most non-trivial applications :-/ On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Stacey Jacobs sta...@generalassemb.lywrote: *We have just announced our Inaugural General Assembly Australia Awards! The awards are designed

Re: [SiliconBeach] It’s time you got some credit for the work you do...

2012-11-01 Thread Alwin Chin
No love to backend devs Alex. :-(( Lol Alwin On 02/11/2012, at 8:42 AM, Alex North a...@alexn.id.au wrote: There's no category for back-end or generalist engineers? We do do half the work in most non-trivial applications :-/ On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Stacey Jacobs

Re: [SiliconBeach] It¹s time you got some credit for the work you do...

2012-11-01 Thread Patrick Collins
Shutup and get back to work. From: Alex North a...@alexn.id.au Reply-To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012 2:42 PM To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [SiliconBeach] It¹s time you got some credit for the work you do... There's no

[SiliconBeach] For Melbourne based XXinTech

2012-11-01 Thread Dean Collins
http://www.facebook.com/XXinTech/posts/499138090120423 Cheers, Dean -- 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

Re: [SiliconBeach] It’s time you got some credit for the work you do...

2012-11-01 Thread Geoff Langdale
Simmer down Alex, do you really think that doing half - or more than half - the actual work compares to being a Community Manager or Growth Hacker? Geoff. On Friday, 2 November 2012 08:42:49 UTC+11, Alex North wrote: There's no category for back-end or generalist engineers? We do do half

Re: [SiliconBeach] It’s time you got some credit for the work you do...

2012-11-01 Thread simran
what! no-one values my invisible work! ag... damn those designers that get all the credit... damn the waiters that take all the tips, and us cooks (no wait... chef's) don't get the extra dough! agrrr ag agrrr... :) (i'm surely okay to make fun of back-end dev's... cause i myself am one :)

[SiliconBeach] Your experience with recruiting advisory boards

2012-11-01 Thread Steven Noble
Hi all, I'm thinking about recruiting an advisory board, partly as a foil against the isolation that comes from being a sole founder. (See my 'seeking cofounder' post: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/silicon-beach-australia/OdpjJeXbPbk) I'm assuming most of the advice