Re: [SiliconBeach] Starting an Oz company from overseas?

They can Brendan, but you can limit some of that by having a tight shareholders agreement where the "founder" (namely you) need to approve pretty much everthing... at the end of they day though... a reasonable level of trust is still required, and if they do anything legally dodgy, they would be in

Re: [SiliconBeach] Hardware Hackspace

Hey Andrey! Not at this stage... but Melbourne also has a vibrant maker community With activity around the Internet of things ramping up here in Australia I suspect It's only a matter of time. Cheers, Andrew. On 6 June 2014 09:33, Andrey Sidorov wrote: > Wow! Any plans for Melbourne? >

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: device detection

Build for the future, not for the past. Wurfl is a super old school technique from 2008, and not relevant in today's day and age, even in the Asian market. Just build for recent smartphones and be apologetic to users with older handsets. Older handsets even if predominant, tend not to use the mobil

Re: [SiliconBeach] Starting an Oz company from overseas?

I've had to do it a couple of times Brendan. It is harder than you think because most people avoid being a director unless absolutely necessary due to the large list of important responsibilities levied by ASIC. Find a friendly and tell them to trust you. Or do what I did and pay said friendly

Re: [SiliconBeach] Starting an Oz company from overseas?

Thanks Rich, that fact led me to some more targeted Googling which confirmed your point: http://www.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf/byheadline/Minimum+officeholders?openDocument but some ads on that search point to some services which offer local directors for a foreign company, for a fee of course: htt

Re: [SiliconBeach] FW: Anyone need a voice/webRTC expert for their NY startup?

We're doing a lot of WebRTC work at NICTA. We're also running regular WebRTC meetups in Sydney: http://www.meetup.com/WebRTC-Sydney/ . If Tim comes to Australia for any reason, we'd love to get him to the meetups! Cheers, Silvia. On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Dean Collins wrote: > Not su

[SiliconBeach] FW: Anyone need a voice/webRTC expert for their NY startup?

Not sure the time zones would work as well but thought this might interest some of you on silicon beach as well. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc d...@cognation.net +1-212-203-4357 New York +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). From: Dean Collins Sent: Monday, J

Re: [SiliconBeach] Starting an Oz company from overseas?

Unless it's changed in the last few years you need to have a resident director. Rich On Jun 9, 2014 6:50 PM, "Brendan Quinn" wrote: > " > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) > > Hi all, a friend of a friend wants to start an AU company from the US... > Doe= > s

[SiliconBeach] Starting an Oz company from overseas?

" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Hi all, a friend of a friend wants to start an AU company from the US... Doe= s anyone know how to go about it? Do any accountants/lawyers/advisers specia= lise in it? In case it matters, I believe the founders are US citizens