[SiliconBeach] Re: Thought the group might find this interesting re: Crowdfunding

2014-05-29 Thread drllau
Technically Australia has crowd-funding but the limits/restrictions are too tight in contrast to US JOBS act which is why Paul wants to loosen some of the definitions and expand the exemptions. I'd point out that in P2P lending, Australia is ahead of NZ with Society One and RateSetter. GoodRetu

[SiliconBeach] Re: GRIFFIN accelerator - mentor driven - still time to apply

2014-05-29 Thread blindman2k
Agreed. There's gold in them there hills. I found this on the eligibility page: "The GRIFFIN accelerator program will consider a spectrum of products and scalable services where government is a potential target customer." This sounds like government is the only vertical of interest. The website

[SiliconBeach] Re: GRIFFIN accelerator - mentor driven - still time to apply

2014-05-29 Thread Ryan Wardell
Hey Craig, THIS bit is really exciting "willingness to *take on businesses targeting government or enterprise customers*, etc" Until you mentioned it, I had no idea that was the case. If that's the vertical you're focusing on, I can see how the mentor roster and the location in Canberra would