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

2014-08-04 Thread hoops
Personally see a few things that from experience i would be worried about : a) 15% is too high for 50K. b) mentors putting in their own money early on. As a founder you need a mentor that can call bullshit on a deal. They can guide you without thinking about their own investment. The best

Re: [SiliconBeach] *Privacy Act* compliant hosting providers in Australia

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew Stone
Legislation is one thing... perhaps you are just looking of someone to hold responsible for leaks? ... If you *really* don't want anyone peeping at your data *you* need to store it encrypted. end of story. On 4 August 2014 11:46, Richard Sazima rich...@sazima.net wrote: Hi all, Our startup

Re: [SiliconBeach] *Privacy Act* compliant hosting providers in Australia

2014-08-04 Thread Richard Sazima
Hey Andrew, Ultimately, you're probably right, one has to do it himself. But it's not about that, it's about complying with the customer's requirements. Not much choice other than finding a hosting provider that does a lot of these security quality buzzwords. Suggestions? ​Thanks!​ ​Cheers ,

Re: [SiliconBeach] *Privacy Act* compliant hosting providers in Australia

2014-08-04 Thread Hugh Stephens
Amazon/AWS' Sydney zone. Assuming you're talking AU privacy principles, the fact that it's owned by Amazon (and arguably not similar privacy laws, but let's be honest, 5 eyes means that even if it wasn't we'd share stuff with the US) usually helps as it's big brand. Otherwise Rackspace does

[SiliconBeach] Re: Consumer facing apps in Australia

2014-08-04 Thread Matto Rochford
Dan, I like the template / restriction / fit-into-this-pattern approach to content creation tools. And re-mixability. Information wants to be free, but it also wants to be re-usable. I note that both Directr: http://business.directr.co/ and the Aussie one (whose name I can't recall just now,

[SiliconBeach] Re: *Privacy Act* compliant hosting providers in Australia

2014-08-04 Thread Jeromy Evans
Hi Richard, It's common when selling to a large enterprise in Australia that you'll have to provide statements of compliance (or non-compliance) for their security and privacy requirements. They'll then consider the risks and may ask you to mitigate them (through encryption, etc). Ask your

[SiliconBeach] StartupBus comes to Australia

2014-08-04 Thread Elias Bizannes
A little background to those newer on the list. I tried to get Aussies over to America on a bus [1] once upon a time. And then this happened [2] It then launched this accidental global phenomenon, where Time did a documentary[3] and Hollywood did a pilot reality show. [4] In 2011, I tried to