[SiliconBeach] New To the Group Specialising in Accounting, Tax, Business Advice, Cashflows, Valuations

2014-01-22 Thread Anthony Staltari
Hi Everyone, My name is Anthony, I'm an accountant by trade and very passionate about information technology Start ups. If anyone needs any assistance with business structuring, tax, cash flows anything like that please just yell out. I'm currently producing my own start up and I value being

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2014-01-22 Thread Bogdan Radacina
Great info. Thank you for the candidness. -- -- 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 postings. You can

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2014-01-22 Thread Dean Collins
Keep in mind there are a lot of benefits in a split team….eg Australian staff wont be wooed away by the next latest and greatest and it doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg to live within 2 hours commute of the office. But yes for raising funds/business potential there are a lot of upsides to

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2014-01-22 Thread blindman2k
I have been in the valley for a year now and wish I could have done it years ago ... and wish I didn't have to go back :( To anyone out there thinking of moving to Silicon Valley for work or business ... make the move, its awesome over here. A. On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 8:40:23 AM

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2014-01-22 Thread Dean Collins
Nothing comes up when I search for that number - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.htmlr=0f=Sl=50TERM1=WO2002085046+FIELD1=PNco1=ANDTERM2=FIELD2=d=PTXT Cheers, Dean From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com

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2014-01-22 Thread Melissa Wyborn
Hey Jindou! Great of you to introduce yourself :) I have read about you guys success and its inspiring for other startups coming over here. Well done! Im Brisbane based with my startup Nakili Organics, its a platform to inspire women to live a clean and active lifestyle. Im in SF for a few

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2014-01-22 Thread Dean Collins
I don’t have any views on ecommerce or lifestyle brandsnot sure why would it matter where these are located. I responded only because I think the question is a #fail, you're welcome to ask something else though - eg living in NYC is cool for startups because of access to capitalapart

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2014-01-22 Thread Melissa Wyborn
Sorry, was just interested in peoples personal views, i was totally assuming you live in NYC. I think i was interested to know what the markets are like for these type brands, e.g.; Melbourne in Aus would be more fashion forward than Brissy etc Maybe NYC more market for lifestyle brands than SF, i

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2014-01-22 Thread Jindou Lee
@Dean: Yes there are pros and cons for either location. SV/SF is very expensive for good talent and that's why a lot of companies move out of the Bay Area once they get to the size of a gorilla. @Melissa: My view is that SV is the best place to live/work for technology. However, you can run a

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2014-01-22 Thread Melissa Wyborn
Thanks so much for the feedback Jindou!!! :) Much appreciated! I've only been in SF for just under a week now and i have found people are pretty friendly and helpful here, which is great when you are trying to figure your way around a new country. I will shoot you an email :) On 1/23/14, Jindou

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2014-01-22 Thread Nigel Sheridan-Smith
Try Google Patents: https://www.google.com/?tbm=pts#q=WO2002085046tbm=pts Looks like its an International one: http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/WO2002085046 So maybe it's not on the USPTO website. Cheers, Nigel On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote:

[SiliconBeach] Recommendation sought for simple incorporation docs

2014-01-22 Thread Alex North
Hi beachlovers, I'm after a recommendation for a simple company incorporation service, possibly online. It's not a high growth, investment-seeking startup, no vesting, no option pool, just a vehicle for indie software publishing. I want out-of-the-box docs. Does anyone have a service they've

Re: [SiliconBeach] Recommendation sought for simple incorporation docs

2014-01-22 Thread Saxon Druce
Hi Alex, I've used eCompanies a couple of times - haven't had any problems: http://www.ecompanies.com.au/ They do try to upsell you on other things that you can do yourself (register a domain, register for an ABN, etc), so just do the basic registration and skip that stuff. Saxon On Thu,

Re: [SiliconBeach] Recommendation sought for simple incorporation docs

2014-01-22 Thread Xuanyi Chew
I'd also like to plug a friend's startup for this: General Standards - generalstandards.co. Kurt and PJ are stand up guys, and if you're ever in Melbourne - check them out. Xuanyi Chew Chewxy: Currently creating critically crazy concept computing contrivances +61403928398 On Thu, Jan 23,

[SiliconBeach] New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Ballard
Hi there folks, let me (re)introduce myself: I'm Andrew Ballard - probably easier if you just called me 'AB' - I first introduced myself in 2008, with this post: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/silicon-beach-australia/mZOKD7xpHus/AbFJIuysapwJ Sadly, MyPerfect is no more, but instead, I'd

RE: [SiliconBeach] New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Dean Collins
Love it, very cool idea…..not sure you’ll be able to get the data (or keep it up to date), but best of luck to trying it. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc d...@cognation.net mailto:d...@cognation.net+1-212-203-4357New York +61-2-9016-5642(Sydney in-dial). +44-20-3129-6001 (London

Re: [SiliconBeach] New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Alex North
Hey Andrew, nice idea. I considered something similar a while back and I'm really glad someone's building it. I had a lot of trouble actually using it though, and was unable to add any data. I suggest you do a couple of sit-down usability tests to fix the most glaring UX issues and bugs. Alex

Re: [SiliconBeach] New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Ballard
Cheers Alex - my fault entirely for working on a 'feature' when my post went live on Silicon Beach. I'm now relegating myself to the whole dev/stage/live routine, but dang it's nice to work directly on a live site when you know no-one's using it! -- I'd love for you to give it another quick

[SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread mich...@testize.com
Interesting... seems to be some work for us at www.testize.com to validate how really awesome and Cross-Mobile compliant sites are :) How come the government site has spelling mistakes and cross-browser CSS issues - https://shots.testize.com/Results/Shared/12971a07-43fb-487d-9ba8-9b4113b971be

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Rai
Hey AB, Ok, I'm in. Landed on my Dashboard and then spent abt 5 mins clicking around looking for how to add a web site. On a cold start, you really wanna put the desired action front and centre. In this case, the 'primary actions' are Adding my various online profiles (Google, FB etc) Which,

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Ballard
Thanks Rai - great feedback - it's near-impossible to fully put yourself into a brand new user's shoes... What's insanely obvious to me is outright invisible to others... -- I've demoted the section where you can add your other social profiles. -- I've promoted the 'Add a New Site' to be first

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Rai
Also, I tried after I sent last email out but was unable to add a site. Add site modal disappears and I'm back on the 'home' page with nothing added. Which I think is the same issue Alex reported. Rai On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Andrew Ballard abrebusin...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Rai -

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Ballard
Indeed. Debugged and good to go - you can Add a Site both via the modal in the dashboard, and via the top nav. Whew! Baptism by fire. Love it - keep it coming. Really appreciated. AB On Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:16:50 PM UTC+11, dekrazee1 wrote: Also, I tried after I sent last email out

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Ballard
Ah! Thanks Tom. In both cases, too much caching on my end... I'll uncache those portions - take the 1% performance hit - and reevaluate the optimisation issue another time. AB On Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:42:01 PM UTC+11, Tom Allen wrote: Well, if you insist... :-P * The numbers of

[SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Stump
That font you're using (IM Fell English) does nothing for the design. Surely you want to be seen as a cutting edge internet based resource, rather than a printed document from the 1800's? On Thursday, 23 January 2014 10:40:38 UTC+11, Andrew Ballard wrote: Hi there folks, let me (re)introduce

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi Andrew Great idea. Is it going to be available for Mobile Apps and Software Products? Thanks Michael On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Andrew Ballard abrebusin...@gmail.comwrote: Ah! Thanks Tom. In both cases, too much caching on my end... I'll uncache those portions - take the 1%

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Michael Ridland
Oh and a LinkedIn import could be a good idea. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andrew Great idea. Is it going to be available for Mobile Apps and Software Products? Thanks Michael On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Andrew Ballard

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: New Aussie startup seeking feedback: Webcred.it - half online credits / half verified CV

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Ballard
@Craig: thanks for that. Fair call - I'm not wedded to the font by any means, and as the site fills with content, the tone needs to change, also. Any suggestions on a Google font that's not going to be instantly out-of-fashion like some of the other ultralight Metro/iOS7 typefaces?