Re: [SiliconBeach] Great people are over rated

2011-06-23 Thread James Hilton
I haven't FULLY read ALL of these threads, but I'll just throw my input in here as a developer based on what I understand this discussion is about There's front end developers and back end developers. Front end is the Van Gogh and YES, they CAN influence the success of a web application. Thin

Re: [SiliconBeach] Silicon Beach website: time for a jobs board and a news service.

2011-06-11 Thread James Hilton
er your questions "a", I would straight away recommend Wordpress for it's ease of use and flexibility as a blog and job board, but for any other purpose it's probably not the best application. Kind regards, James Hilton. On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Elias Bizannes wrote:

Re: [SiliconBeach] Is social networking commercially viable in Australia?

2011-06-05 Thread James Hilton
Interesting.. LinkedIn makes money from paying members. And Whirlpool.net.au must make a fortune from it's 30 million post forum. There's also dating sites that charge for membership and they don't seem to be going anywhere.. RSVP comes to mind. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Joshua Partog

Re: [SiliconBeach] Finding your first customers

2011-06-05 Thread James Hilton
Hi Adam, I personally don't see value in the site the way it is right now, but I could definitely see the value in a site where one startup is shown every day, and a community of passionate founders/designers/programmers have the opportunity to give constructive criticism on it in the form of a di

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Marketing my start up

2011-05-27 Thread James Hilton
Beck and Olivia, I've done a lot with SEO and free traffic gaining techniques. If you give me a link to your website and explain what methods you have tried, I can give you some suggestions on what will work best for you. - pyjam...@gmail.com On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:10 PM, doogirl wrote: > Sha

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread James Hilton
Depends on what you're selling, Olivia... On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:19 PM, doogirl wrote: > Hi all, > > Let me introduce myself, my name is Olivia, I am totally new to SB. I > am about to embark in possibly the scariest and most exciting thing I > have ever done. I am starting an online business

Re: [SiliconBeach] Introduce my self

2011-05-23 Thread James Hilton
Hi Bob and everyone else! I subscribed a few days ago so I'm also a newby. I'm building an event based social network and I can't wait to be a major player and contributer in the Australian online startup scene. If anyone has any PHP, MySQL, html, css or javascript problems, I can probably help