nt 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 trouble.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Brenda
are the only local director of a registered company.
Thanks again,
Brendan.
On 9 June 2014 10:00, Richard Buggy wrote:
> 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" wrot
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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
Jumping in on this conversation, one thing that could be considered
when taking a "strategic investment" from an industry based corporate
VC is that it might be seen as a "poison pill" to stop the investor's
competitors from acquiring you. If your likely exit is a trade sale in
the industry, then I
Hi all, just wanted to change the subject line to draw attention to Roger's
reply to Simran's post. It will go down in history as one of the all-time
greats in the Silicon Beach pantheon!
On 28 August 2012 13:08, Roger Kermode wrote:
> Ok so in principle I agree with Simran's original post on se
Have you guys seen prediction markets, eg http://www.inklingmarkets.com/ ?
They were all the rage in management journals a few years ago... none
of them has been a massive success but they seem to work in some
areas.
Brendan.
On 29 June 2012 12:57, Caroline Gordon wrote:
> Interested to hear mo
One specific idea re #4 is what a mate of mine in London is doing...
he gets financially-savvy international MBA students (mainly studying
at London Business School where we studied) to perform due diligence
on companies in their home territories, or at least countries where
they have a strong know
that is quite funny... nice one mate, have a great christmas yourself! hope
to see you some time soon!
On 9 December 2011 08:14, simran wrote:
> some of you might see the humor in this ;)
>
> here's what i got my my fiverr :) (the quality speaks for itself... but
> here it is for what it's worth
On 11 September 2011 01:30, Geoff Langdale wrote:
> Overall, this is a good summary, but this bit is simply not true:
>
>> The main problem with the old one was that it was just a tax credit:
>> you had to be paying enough tax to have something to deduct from. And
>> for most startups that isn't t
I went to an info session about the new R&D tax incentive at Australia
House in London this week. Frankly it sounds amazing.
The main problem with the old one was that it was just a tax credit:
you had to be paying enough tax to have something to deduct from. And
for most startups that isn't the c
a few random thoughts:
1) generally I agree with the author (Bill Taylor), a team of pretty
good people can beat a couple of stars, over the long term, if they
play well together
2) he's not being fair to Zuckerberg and the rest: their quotes are
about comparing 5 stars to 5 *mediocre* people, no
posts appear. I will eventually add new stuff like twitter
integration, daily email updates etc but just as I got the main site
finished a consulting gig appeared so I've been a bit busy recently!
Let me know if that sounds interesting and I can set you up with an invite code.
Brendan Quinn
Fo
Yeah that's a good point, I'm not sure what made me sign up in the first place.
I was a science and music kid, didn't do economics or accounting, and
wasn't into business apart from maybe admiring people like Dick Smith.
Maybe the temptation was that I was at a catholic boys school and in
the pro
One thing that's vaguely related -- when I was at high school in
Melbourne I joined a programme called Young Achievers. It was
organised by a non-profit (I think?) and involved volunteers from
companies who mentored local year 11 schoolkids in starting a
business.
They had a general structure that
Volunteering at conferences is a little secret I thought I had kept to
myself ;-)
When I was studying at Berkeley I managed to volunteer at four
conferences -- GigaOm's NewTeeVee, QCon SF, Widget Summit and one
other that I forget -- all inside of 4 months!
Some of the gigs I got through the busi
re push notifications, check out Prowl http://www.prowlapp.com/. It
has a really simple RESTful API that lets you push any notification to
any user easily. After hearing about it at a local Twitter devnest in
London, I hooked my little site (http://www.aggrity.com/) up and now I
get a push notifica
Congratulations Matt! That sounds like a fun role, best of luck with
it and remember us SBers when you're rich after the AirBnB IPO next
year ;-)
Brendan.
On 23 May 2011 20:31, Matthew Ho wrote:
> I've recently joined Airbnb. I'm their first Australian based hire.
> I'll be launching them in Oz,
Also check out Blackmagic Design, they're killing it in the broadcast
engineering world at the moment, providing video capture cards,
converters, video routers and full colour grading stations for
fractions of the costs of their competitors.
The CEO gave me a tour of their facility last year, he's
On 8 May 2011 13:03, Ryan Cross wrote:
> The level of attribution is often negotiable, but a complete refusal to any
> level of attribution often hinders consultants/contractors to market their
> services. At the far end of this extreme is working for someone like the UN,
> who refuse all levels o
Excellent! One good thing about this fund is that it pays 75% up front,
essential for small operations. Here in the UK a lot of the govt funds pay
quarterly in arrears which can be really tough, even to the point where
relatively large companies need to get bridge finance so that they can
actually
On 6 April 2011 07:49, Geoff Langdale wrote:
> 3. There's no technical prestige associated in having worked for a
> technically dull failed business startup. The vast majority of
> startups are going to fail. If you're a tech guy and you're realistic
> about this, go figure out whether you're goi
Excellent post Nick! As a some-time techy guy I can sympathise with a lot of
those points. Someone thinks their idea is so amazing that developers should
be falling over themselves to work for months for free. That just proves
that they haven't read the copious literature on startups which shows th
On 31 March 2011 23:46, Matt Allen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Brendan Quinn
> wrote:
> > it appears that wshl.st is available... although wshlst.com etc are
> taken so
>
> As I read somewhere (or heard, I can't remember) earlier this week,
> "
it appears that wshl.st is available... although wshlst.com etc are taken so
it could get confusing still it's not bad... nice and short at least! you're
lucky I'm not grabbing it right now :-)
(prob is that .st domains cost $80/year so I guess you don't get as many
squatters)
Good luck,
Brendan
I thought you guys might be interested in this, either if you're thinking of
settling in the UK or if you want to see what others are doing in terms of
entrepreneur visas.
It was great to meet a bunch of you at SB drinks last week! Sadly I'm back
off to Blighty today so I'll have to revert to lurk
I concur with Art. I was a team leader in the very first event two years ago
and had a lot of fun. Ian from launch48 actually grew up in Essendon so
there's a good chance it's actually the original founders who are running
the Melbourne event!
One caveat: make sure you get all the team members to
the offer: http://www.appsumo.com/?r=n1Jh
Brendan (enjoying the Melbourne sunshine, in between showers, yes I'm back
in the country for a couple of weeks! Hope to make it up for my first SB
drinks in Sydney, maybe next Friday?)
On 1 March 2011 19:48, Jeromy Evans wrote:
>
> On Mar 1, 8
also see appsumo.com -- a YC startup that is very close to a B2B-Groupon
site. They cater for startups and often provide discounts for related
ebooks, 99designs credits, mailchimp etc etc. Often in "bundles" where you
get some great deals (and a bit of crud to go along with it).
Interestingly they
Hi Ben,
Not really answering your question, but to give you a UK perspective:
For what it's worth, CICs in the UK don't have any tax benefit status, they
are taxed like any other limited company. The only real benefit is in "state
of mind" and marketing purposes. It does have restrictions on how
also James Hong from hotornot.com has a very cool story, and he has a
great laid-back and funny style which would go down very well in
Australia, and that proves it's about working smart, not necessarily
working hard...
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On 11 January 2011 21:54, Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer)
wrote:
> Yep, I mentioned that to the other organisers. We're trying for late
> Feb or Late March.
>
> Thanks for all suggestions, some good ideas.
>
> Are there a few more from Asia or Europe?
I'll pitch in with some European names...
- Sau
Sounds like a great idea, Bart!
I've just handed in my notice to the day job in London (BBC research
labs), and will soon be touring the world looking for the next big
thing... I have a few ideas / irons in the fire but no concrete plans
yet, not even for which continent I'll end up on..
I'd be k
... to chip in with a UK resident's perspective (again):
They have a thing here called the Enterprise Investment Scheme, which
has done wonders for angel investment:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/eis/part1/1-2.htm
Investors can:
- claim income tax relief for 20% of the investment (okay but not great)
-
Hi Mike,
If you haven't already I suggest that you have a look at
http://www.techhub.com in London, it started off as a similar idea but
has extended into a members club of sorts, ie if you join as a member
you can use a desk when you need one at greatly reduced rates -- good
for startups from aro
On 30 November 2010 23:31, Clifford Heath wrote:
> On 01/12/2010, at 9:44 AM, Stephen Young wrote:
>>
>> There's an opportunity, I believe, to re-purpose the whole SSL "web of
>> trust" system towards other digital age issues.
>
> The term "web of trust" was used to describe the non-hierarchical
>
On 26 November 2010 04:16, drllau wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 24, 9:53 pm, Brendan Quinn wrote:
>> Nice work all! I was talking to a GP from Accel in London at an event
>> recently and he said that they love talking to Aussies and were very
>> impressed with Mike in particula
Nice work all! I was talking to a GP from Accel in London at an event
recently and he said that they love talking to Aussies and were very
impressed with Mike in particular and a lot of other aussie companies
as well.
Looks like they're a particularly good company to know:
http://techcrunch.com/20
have you tried calling the CPA association? they should have some good
pointers...
On 1 October 2010 07:19, Mark Burch wrote:
> Not only do I not know the information I need, I also don’t know how to get
> the information I need. Which in the age of Google is a little bit unusual…
>
> But anyway,
Mick, Alan and co...
Have you considered bringing in Australian mentors who live in the
Valley as well? I imagine that would be a great benefit that founders
could draw from the programme, that they would get an immediate intro
to people in the US. It would also give those expats a reason to keep
Hi Jeff, can't help you on the Delaware thing but I'd be curious to
hear more about option two, the EU approach. I'm in the EU at the
moment so that might work well for me... do you have any more info or
know anyone who has?
Brendan.
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I know Simone (@simon) from his previous life as European AWS evangelist,
and he's very helpful and a really fun guy.
I recommend meeting up with him if you can, getting him along to your hack
days and startup events, etc :-)
BTW it was very nice to meet a few of you at the Melbourne SB Drinks a
also hotwire.com is great for last-minute and secret hotel deals (those ones
where you get a really good hotel for such a cheap price that the hotel
doesn't want it to be known... works quite well, lastminute.com.au do it
too).
Enjoy the conference!
On 2 May 2010 12:34, Nick Holmes a Court (BuzzN
taskdoer was a bit crap actually and none of us wanted to keep it going, but
my presentation from the previous launch48, myCharityPie.com is much better,
and I'm still working on that site (yes, a year later -- I need to start
listening to all this lean startup stuff and just get it out there)
myC
deal. see you there!
On 28 April 2010 13:42, Casey Butler wrote:
> Brendan and Ben, would love to chat.
>
> I'll meet you at Melbourne MSBdrinks tonight at 5.30? It's not much earlier
> but it's something. If anyone else can get there at 5.30 this week, awesome.
>
> Casey
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Hi folks, I might be able to help with some contacts. I know Ian Broom who
runs launch48.com in London (but he's actually from Essendon) and I think he
is keen to get a franchise thing going with events around the world. I put
him in touch with a guy I know in Melbourne who I thought was interested
would love to come to sydney for the day, but I've come 25,000 miles to go
to the wedding of one of my best friends on Saturday, so I really should
turn up now that I'm here!
On 22 April 2010 10:39, Michelle Williams wrote:
> Hi Brendan,
> Yes, Humphrey is the man to chat to down in Melbourne. I
Hi all, is anyone planning an SLL simulcast in Melbourne? I'm in town from
London (via the US) for a few days and would love to watch this with a few
people before I head to a friend's wedding on Saturday afternoon... (so I
might be very well-dressed for a startup event!)
btw is anything interesti
Hi Rich, and welcome from across the seas... (I'm based in London, I'm just
squatting on the list..!)
I did a course recently which touched on this kind of thing... and one thing
I learned was that jurisdiction matters hugely in patents.
If you apply for a patent in Australia, that doesn't stop a
2009/10/22 Michael zimmerman
> lastly, i have heard about foreign exchange sites that charge less than
> banks for intl transfers. don't know the names but something to consider.
>
http://www.tranzfers.com/ is a good example of these -- and they're an
Aussie startup from the looks of things!
i
Hi guys,
I was an exchange student when I was in the US last year and I was lucky
enough to be able to open an account without an SSN. Apparently it's legally
possible to open an account without one, but only student areas seem to
actually know about it / cater for it, so maybe if you try bank bra
Nice one! I hadn't heard about that as a concept... are many people using
github as a CV nowadays? back in the day I used to mention my CPAN
contributions in my CV but that's a little old fashioned now ;-)
Brendan.
2009/9/14 Jonathan Clarke
> Although I do not have any internship available if y
too bad the link from katelundy.com.au 404s! it's trying to link to
http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/siliconbeachpolicyideas/ when the doc is at
http://www.siliconbeachaustralia.org/lifeguard/
Brendan.
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(been lurking for a bit, intro coming soon...!)
2009/7/23 OSturm
>
> Hi,
>
> newsletters as in e-mails. He's thinking of a site that lists hundreds/
> thousands of different newsletter publi
Okay as I promised, here's my introduction.
I'm Brendan Quinn, a 35 year old geek sort of trying to become a
business guy. I spent my first 28 years or so in Australia and have
been living in London since 2002. I hope that doesn't immediately
disqualify me from Silicon Beach membe
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