Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Time to embrace being a f*ck up and start talking about mental health in startups

I read this while watching Elon Musk speaking about his company. Back a few years ago he almost had a nervous breakdown, 3 rockets failed and Tesla was losing money. It can happen to anyone. As entrepreneurs we face enormous amounts of stress and pressure on a daily basis. Talking about your pr

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: GovHack & RHOK

I was involved in GovHack Sydney as a developer. There was a big presence from Google + MongoDB, helping out where they could. Lots of APIs were made available, many I had never heard about. That's what it was all about, educating the developers and showing them what information was out there.

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: 457 Visa's

it'll work - will find out pretty > shortly. If you see me on a plane back to Ireland in two weeks you know it > all went horribly wrong ;) > > > > On Monday, 18 March 2013 10:09:31 UTC+11, Jonathan Clarke wrote: >> >> Avis, >> >> I never even realised

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: 457 Visa's

Avis, I never even realised that would have been an option. And here was me going the traditional route of working for a company for 2 years on a 457, stayed with them for 4.5 years; now on PR and hoping to launch my business soon... 457 visas are great because they are quick to get, especially i

Re: [SiliconBeach] Sydney on Rails meetup Launches

Danila, What's wrong with the current well-established ruby/rails meetup that happens every month in Surrey Hills? On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Danila Davidson wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just wanted to let you know I've just set up a meet-up dedicated to the > Ruby on Rails community. > > Whe

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Introducing Sydney Dev Camp - the education startup

Hi Danila, Just a typo, but a $1000 dollar one. http://www.sydneydevcamp.com/#!tuition/c1yo9 We will connect you the top companies here in Sydney. If you get an offer and accept it, we receive a “placement fee” from them and will reimburse you AUD 2,000 of your tuition http://www.sydneydevca

Re: [SiliconBeach] Liberal Party plans for Tech Development in Australia released...

Please moderate him. I was one of those supporting his return to the list. He has consistently goaded members and posted rubbish content. I though his behaviour would have improved with the ban but alas it has not. Jonathan On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Elias Bizannes wrote: > Yep, my word

Re: [SiliconBeach] Trying to change the world - help required!

It's a great idea, definitely a worthy cause and almost every person uses toilet paper. Had just a few thoughts though while doing the survey. - I'm 100% unlikely to recommend a service when I haven't used it before. - Trying to imagine how the shipping will work, the post office putting

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Cofounder Speed Date - in Sydney AND Melbourne in May

Just an enquiry, have many people coupled up with a founder to start up from this group? Has any test cases come out of this yet to gauge success of these meetups? On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Kim Heras wrote: > Just want to confirm how great an event this is that Ryan has pulled > togeth

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Product & Hardware Startup + Introduction

Hi David, Interesting concept. Have you built the product yet? Have you sold any? Have you figured out the cost to mass manufacture? Those are usually good signs to any incubator to bring a startup into the fold. I'm assuming that it also depends on the team, it's rare (extremely) for a team wit

Re: [SiliconBeach] e-commerce platforms - what to use?

Check out http://spreecommerce.com/ 100% open source and on ruby on rails. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:12 AM, rantalot wrote: > Hi Silicon Beachers, > Together with a few others (all non-tech), I am playing around with a > simple e-commerce concept, and I have been asked by my co-founders to >

[SiliconBeach] Group Queue Moderation

Have received a request from the IRC channel (Yes it does exist and there are people talking in there) for the queue to be moderated. Seems there are a few members posts which have not come up yet for the better part of a week. Jonathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [SiliconBeach] Visas for migrant funded startup entrepreneurs

Hi David, Sure, there is that option. With the general skilled migration visa you are not tied to any specific employer. All that faces said prospective entrepreneur is a 8 month to 2 year wait (offshore processing), about 4-6k AUD in fees, this isn't taking into account the amount you would als

[SiliconBeach] Visas for migrant funded startup entrepreneurs

Some very interesting news coming out of Ireland today. http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0125/immigration.html Two new immigration initiatives have been launched, aimed at facilitating migrant entrepreneurs to create jobs in Ireland, in return for permission to live in the State. One programme aims t

Re: [SiliconBeach] Immortal Outdoors and Start-Up Chile

You need to make sure you'll have enough money first to access the entire grant. The grant is given on a reimbursed basis and they only allow startups to request reimbursement once monthly, so unless you bring roughly a fairly large sum with you, you will not be able to access your full grant Get

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Emmigrating to Silicon Beach

I believe going advertising locally is sufficient evidence. If you can't find the right candidate at that stage then you are entitled to look at the overseas option. It helps if the job needed is on the critical skills list which is created by the immigration department every year. On Thu, Dec 2

Re: [SiliconBeach] Emmigrating to Silicon Beach

It's a pity that Portugal doesn't qualify for the Working Holiday Visa. With it you can work for 6 months with any employer and then move on to another employer. It's valid for 1 year with a second year being earned if you are willing to work in a rural environment. That was how I cam into the

Re: [SiliconBeach] Emmigrating to Silicon Beach

Hi Antonio, I believe a business in Australia must be established for a period of time before they have the right to sponsor workers. I would suspect there is more job security working for more established startups (2+ years) more often than not. If you are coming in from a tech background its a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Institute Sydney - update and info

They posted some stats on their successes yesterday: http://fi.co/posts/467 I would apply, but alas, I have a wedding bang in the middle of the program in Kathmandu. Jonathan On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Tom Allen wrote: > For those interested, The Founder Institute (http://fi.co) has now

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Institute Sydney - update and info

When I look at initiatives like this I always look to see their successes. The list of companies who have graduated are here: http://fi.co/companies None seem to jump out to me as ones that have "made it", maybe it's because I'm not in their field or target market. Cake Health is the only one th

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Nikki Durkin in SMH

There seems to be a trend happening in Australian startups. Get into an Australian incubator, move to an American incubator, get investment from the US, move to the US. What gives? Australia is losing tax dollars as a result, it also is losing the future mentors for the next generation. On Mon

Re: [SiliconBeach] Trademark problems

Once an app has been named / renamed can another organisation rename their application? So, if you changed to "CodifyApp", could they then use the name "Codify" on the app store? I saw your post on Hacker News yesterday, I'm guessing the consultancy is now very bummed that you also now have the t

Re: [SiliconBeach] Project tracking / project management tools

Base camp is not bad but is also a big expense, $49 a month for the smallest plan. They tend to tie in with other products of theirs as well. One tool will not solve all of your project management needs. It'd be a combination of them that works well for you and your team. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011

Re: [SiliconBeach] Project tracking / project management tools

I'm a huge pivotal tracker fan, simple and easy to use; also has a great mobile app. However it does not track your budget; I'd suggest that you use it in tandem with another tool just for that purpose. Also, checkout Redmine, simple open source system project management tool that can be customis

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: 2 tickets free to Financial Education Summit - Melbourne - Tomorrow

I saw 200 of these on Antmart for free earlier this week, they were gone in a few hours. It looks like a great event...would love to have seen a similar one happening in Sydney. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:47 PM, drllau wrote: > since @Kevin is kindly supporting SB by donating tickets to any > me

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Online service to check driving record/points

I would hate to see the day that an insurance / car rental company requires such a background check before leasing out a car / policy. They already have adequate processes in place to insure a hefty return should the worst come to pass. Boo to this idea Jonathan On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:43

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: On moderation

Re-instate. Those who do not wish to deal with him can just add a filter straight to junk should you really not wish to ever see his name again. Benevolent dictator that you are Elias, you did say that you would re-instate after a period of time. Give him a chance. Jonathan On Fri, Oct 7, 2011

Re: [SiliconBeach] double taxation - has anyone got experience?

Hi Max, By no means an expert, but possibly one of the countries you should look at is Ireland. There is a 12.5% tax on trading income, I think the lowest in the EU. You should get in touch with Enterprise Ireland, http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/ All the best, Jonathan Clarke On Fri

Re: [SiliconBeach] Entrepreneurship in Australia: the missing links

So which one should be the priority here? Being very biased but "Leveraging the entrepreneurial potential of our immigrant population through better designed immigration policies" would be one of my top priorities. Making it easier for top talent to come to Australia and start their own business.

Re: [SiliconBeach] Hosting [ was: Lokenote site and iPhone app ]

I've been with Linode for quite a while, Freemont is their most un-reliable zone...I switched to Texas without any issues for the past 6 months. Was there any reason why you didn't sign up with anyone local? Octopus, OrionVM, Ninefold? All the best, Jonathan On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, gord

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Are you on Twitter?

@beilabs Thx On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32 AM, chexton wrote: > @chexton for me :). > > On Sep 28, 3:54 pm, Derek Winter > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I’ve set up a list for Silicon Beach twitter-ers. There’s 25 people from > the Silicon Beach emails I've scanned so far on the list … there's bo

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Custom Fields in Emails

Hi Scott, Campaign Monitor ( Home grown Aussie company ) does exactly that. It's pretty handy for large mailing lists, you also get some stats on open / click rates. Jonathan On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Justin Tauber wrote: > Nice catch, Andrew! > I'll remember that one. > > > On 28 Septe

Re: [SiliconBeach] Getting an E3 Visa - a DIY How-to

@Geoff, the Australian 457 prevents the employee from working with any other employer or operating a business especially their own. The ones I referred to above were more for permanent residency which is much more akin to E3 than the 457. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Matt Moore wrote: > An E

Re: [SiliconBeach] Getting an E3 Visa - a DIY How-to

All I can say is that it's a pretty efficient system compared to what we have here in Australia. General skilled migrant visa: wait time is 2 years. Employer sponsored visa: wait time is 5 - 8 months. Jonathan On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Geoff McQueen < geoff.mcqu...@hiivesystems.com> wrote

Re: [SiliconBeach] Getting an E3 Visa - a DIY How-to

Great writeup Geoff, So, from start to finish how long did this take you? Hoping the Australian government takes note of this! On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Geoff McQueen < geoff.mcqu...@hiivesystems.com> wrote: > I've just been through the process of applying for and getting my E3 visa >

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: NZ version of StartMate

Andy, I agree with you about the team dynamics changing after the weekend is over. Our own team went from a team of 5 to a team of 2, which actually was ideal for our situation. Interesting that Startup Labs is now funding projects that come out of the various startup weekends, there must be a n

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: NZ version of StartMate

Of the batch that we came out in last October, I think we're the only ones still going. http://dealpinch.com Jonathan On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:15 AM, drllau wrote: > http://wellington.startupweekend.org/ > > - 54 hour marathons ... one wonders at the role of "jam" seesions v > carefully though

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Successful Aussie tech entrepreneurs who have come back from Silicon Valley?

-step-in-the-right-direction/2011/08/03/gIQA2bGgsI_story.html On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Geoff McQueen wrote: > And you need a degree, bachelors or better. > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:06, Jonathan Clarke > wrote: >> >> Hi Adam, >> >> If your an Australi

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Successful Aussie tech entrepreneurs who have come back from Silicon Valley?

Hi Adam, If your an Australian citizen then you will qualify for the E3 visa. http://canberra.usembassy.gov/e3visa/qualifying.html Jonathan On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Adam Fraser wrote: > As an aspiring entrepreneur I'm just wondering if anyone had advice on > how to get IN to silicon va

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach Australia / jobs

Love the UI of that job board. Really clean and minimalistic. Great job to all involved. Jonathan Clarke Co-Founder of Deal Pinch On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Matthew Ho wrote: > awesome work. > > we now have a facebook page - we're with the times =) > > http://ww

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Changing the way charities collect funds……Can you help?

I commend you for this. It's a tough problem that every charity faces and the banks seem to fleece them at every opportunity. Is this sustainable? You're a non-profit entity, how will this last 2 / 5 / 10 years if you are providing a free service? Will you be accepting donations yourselves or p

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Color Coded for Drink nights

I propose stamping your profession on your brow, permanent ink works best! Alternatively, mention on the message board what you are looking for, or use the silicon beach drinks hash tag. Jonathan On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Geoff Langdale wrote: > I think wrist bands are likely to be conf

Re: [SiliconBeach] Financial Management Course for Startups

+1 On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Nicholas Tong wrote: > Definately keen! > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Matthieu Stone > wrote: > >> I'd be there. >> >> >> On 24 June 2011 19:30, Bec Coleman wrote: >> >>> Definitely been keen! >>> Its an area I don't feel too confident in so would l

Re: [SiliconBeach] Suggestions and Recommendations will help.

Hey Suresh, You're on LinkedIn, get in touch with recruiters. You'll have a tough time finding startups that can hire anyone on a 457 (assuming you're not a resident), but there are a lot of organisations looking for competent BAs, especially those who have a masters from an Australian University

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

- Pick one thing to build first, either a jobs board or a HN clone! - Get a team together - Build it over a weekend, open source the code / design on github.com - Allow any developer / designer to tweak or add the design or add new features over time. - Launch - Getting Silicon

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

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Matthew Ho wrote: > I agree with this - what's missing is people's profiles and what they > want out of Silicon Beach. > Rapportive does this for me already! > > Just a simple profile with links to Twitter, Linkedin, blog to find > out more. Ability to contact

Re: [SiliconBeach] Why are you running your startup?

Over here at Deal Pinch we exist to make peoples lives that much easier. It's pretty fulfilling to hear people speak nicely about our service. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Mathew French wrote: > To Help HR Professionals Manage thier employees more efficently and > effectively. So everyone can

Re: [SiliconBeach] Tech company tax structures

Hi Mahesh, Look up the term Double Irish and how Google is using it to their advantage. It's the reason that most of the major software corporations have their European headquarters set up in Ireland. Microsoft, Facebook, Dell to name a few of them. Jonathan On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:03 AM, mah

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Friday in Melbourne on 6 May (a female-focused event)

Lucy McFadden - co-founder of Deal Pinch ( Australia & NZ Daily deal aggregation ) On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Tagmotion wrote: > Here's a few more thanks to Rachel Slattery's Slattery's Watch: > Laurel Papworth, Online Communities Strategist, World Communities; > Sama

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Finding Technical Co-Founders: How do we help people do this better?

Just putting this out there. Is there a shortage of technical people willing to work for someone else? I was at the ruby meetup last night, about 10 jobs were announced that they were looking for people. I'm not sure but it seemed that no-one was really interested. Most seem to be working on th

Re: [SiliconBeach] Pick 3 Features!

I'd actually just pick one feature. Get it out there, be ashamed of it but get it out there. Once done, pick a new feature after asking your customers what they want / need. Jonathan On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Rob James wrote: > A recent thread on here inspired me to think about "If I wa

Re: [SiliconBeach] Finding Technical Co-Founders: How do we help people do this better?

One of the easier ways is to go to the startup camps. Meet a few tech people from different teams, work with them in a high pressure situation and see if you can gel with them. Often the projects fall apart after the weekend, sometimes it does not. But you'll certainly meet a lot of talented tech

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Press mailing list

I spent a while following quite a few journalists in Australia today: http://twitter.com/#!/list/beilabs/au-and-nz-press-list The spreadsheet is now editable: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnWUxomtv0QgdDI4WU5sUGZyNmdwOFB1TmRGLWYzbXc&hl=en&authkey=COWblJIN#gid=0 Add away, if any new one

Re: [SiliconBeach] Press mailing list

Sorry everyone, Wrong list: http://twitter.com/#!/list/beilabs/au-and-nz-press-list <http://twitter.com/#!/list/beilabs/au-and-nz-press-list>I'll shut up now. Jonathan On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Jonathan Clarke wrote: > > Hey James, > > Great idea. Suggestions are

Re: [SiliconBeach] Press mailing list

urser wrote: > The other thing you might want to consider is finding their twitter > accounts. > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Jonathan Clarke > wrote: > >> Louise, >> >> I am not looking to buy a mailing list or use a Media Relations firm at >> th

Re: [SiliconBeach] Press mailing list

arly. I can help with this if you > would like. > > > Louise > > > *From: *Jonathan Clarke > *Reply-To: *silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > *Date: *Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:14:36 -0700 (PDT) > *To: *Silicon Beach Australia > *Subject: *[SiliconBeach] Press ma

[SiliconBeach] Press mailing list

Hi everyone, Yesterday I noticed that there were a few Australian journalists a bit miffed at not being invited to the #startmate event yesterday on Twitter. Is there a known mailing list for organisations floating around for PR purposes in Australia, especially in relation to startups? Add your

Re: [SiliconBeach] Calling all coders!

Ruby On Rails Sydney is having a meetup soon... More info here: http://rubyonrails.com.au/ Jonathan On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Edwin Onggo wrote: > Hello fellow SBers, > > The last time I posted on this forum I was overwhelmed with the > quality of responses and discussion that ensued. >

Re: [SiliconBeach] Deal Pinch - Deals4Hipsters makes Techcrunch

on Techcrunch once a year? ;) > > seriously folks hit the "buy" button and enjoy the vid. (and don't > forget to signup!) > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Jonathan Clarke > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > So we (@estateofflux & @bei

[SiliconBeach] Deal Pinch - Deals4Hipsters makes Techcrunch

nvestment. All the best, Jonathan Clarke Co-Founder of DealPinch.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den No lu

Re: [SiliconBeach] StartCast at Silicon Beach: Why Startup?

Awesome video with great production quality. Well done guys, you certainly have me as a subscriber. Jonathan Co-Founder of DealPinch.com On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Justin David wrote: > You can see our first official offering on youtube now: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_d

Re: [SiliconBeach] Hitenism

May as well kick this off, so who are the hot new startups everyone is taking notice of right now in Australia. ? Now by startup I'm talking about ones that have launched in the past 12 months or who are soon to launch in the next few weeks! Jonathan DealPinch.com On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:49 A

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: B2B Deals sites - the next big battle front?

Mick, The team with the best sales force will win this space. Users will swap and change their loyalties depending on who is offering the best deal at the time. While having a large user base is extremely important, retaining that user share to be loyal to your brand is going to be increasingly

Re: [SiliconBeach] US phone data plans - prepaid

Check out maxroam.com as wellfounded by a fellow Irishman, seeing as it is St. Patrick's Day I should show the love... Jonathan On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Judd Howie wrote: > Not an endorsement by any means...but there does seems to be a lot of these > "worlwide uni-sim's" around at th

Re: [SiliconBeach] barefoot power in the smh

Great article. He'd do well to target Nepal. Was just on the phone to someone there who was on hour 12 of a daily 16 hour load shedding! Jonathan On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:47 PM, frenzy wrote: > > http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/mr-cool-solar-wizard-lights-up-the-world-20110308-1blyt.htm

Re: [SiliconBeach] The Four Steps to the Epiphany Book

Hey Jin, Read it some time ago. There used to be a Lean Startup Group which met monthly in Sydney to discuss some of the many concepts of the book. Not sure if the meetings are happening any more though. All the best, Jonathan Clarke Co-Founder of DealPinch.com On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:51

Re: [SiliconBeach] Business Etiquette in Asia

Lived there over three years myself in Dalian and Beijing as an engineer for a Chinese multinational. Drinking is as important as not getting drunk by the end of the night. Know your limits and don't be throwing up over the person you're doing the deal with, you'll lose face! Also, they tend to d

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: B2B Deals sites - the next big battle front?

avel/adventure deals site that hoards together > > information relevant to only a small niche. would be keen to catch up > > at some stage to chat through. looking at focusing on "flashpackers" > > really. a tight knit captive market thats only growing in demand. >

Re: [SiliconBeach] Intro

Hi Jason, Nice work with the Shop for Change. I wrote a thesis on the topic of E-Commerce for the developing world for my masters. Very similar concept to yours though your site is exceptionally pretty. Jonathan On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Jason Strachan wrote: > Hi all, > > Since we ar

Re: [SiliconBeach] B2B Deals sites - the next big battle front?

@Louise, it's still a very early time for each and everyone of these deal sites. Groupon is only 2-3 years old, Spreets is only 1 year old this month. We've been asked to list about 10 new sites this month alone, all new players, they won't have initial large user base so they must differentiate

Re: [SiliconBeach] B2B Deals sites - the next big battle front?

Hey guys, We've been in this space since October aggregating all of the daily deals in the major cities in Australia + Auckland (DealPinch.com), a graduate of Startup Camp. We're seeing two things, much more localisation, more side deals and much more niche offerings being made available. I'd lo

Re: [SiliconBeach] Sydney co-working sites

Hey Mahesh, Have you checked out http://desksnear.me Are you involved in a startup? I think GradConnection and The Entourage are expanding in Sydney CBD. Could be an idea to get in touch with them. Best of luck, Jonathan On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:31 AM, maheshsh...@gmail.com < maheshsh...@gm

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Is SB a forum for product improvement or just business stuff?

different email clients Jonathan On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Dylan Jay wrote: > > On 24/01/2011, at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Clarke wrote: > >> @Dylan, >> >> Install Rapportive: http://rapportive.com/, hover over an email in Gmail and you can then see their twitter ac

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Is SB a forum for product improvement or just business stuff?

@Dylan, Install Rapportive: http://rapportive.com/, hover over an email in Gmail and you can then see their twitter account, linkedin + much more. It definitely improves the conversation for me anyhow, Jonathan On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Dylan Jay wrote: > On 21/01/2011, at 10:06 AM, El

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Is SB a forum for product improvement or just business stuff?

Hey Ash, You're pretty much the reason the #siliconbeach channel exists in IRC. There are a few lurkers, but we're there. Any questions you have, just ask away; hopefully it'll grown and form part of the the Australian startup community. @Elias, any chance of getting the IRC channel listed on the

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Who would you want? One Day Web Entrepreneur Event

Christ guys, not one single woman on the list? I'd love to hear from PG myself, but what about Caterina Fake of Flickr? Sandy Jen and Elain Wherry of Mebo or Marissa Mayer of Google? Bring some diversity to it please... Jonathan (My co-founder is a woman) On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Mick L

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: accountants or bookkeepers you know?

Frenzy, Could you also make public the list of accountants who appear startup friendly? Looking to get one in Sydney. Thanks, Jonathan Co-Founder of DealPinch.com On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Mitchell Ribar wrote: > I will pass this on at work, heaps of accountants. > > Hope they complete

Re: [SiliconBeach] Sydney city office space - Hot desk

Hey Darryl, You should also checkout www.desksnear.me and www.co-loco.com for advertising your space. All the best, Jonathan On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Darryl West wrote: > We are an IT company sharing space and have a number of desks that we have > reduced rent for the next three month

Re: [SiliconBeach] Where is the hub of the tech startup ecosystem in Oz?

Hey Cormac, I'm a native of Kerry myself. Came over in 2008 and love the place. I'm usually on the new IRC channel for Silicon Beach if you want to chat. Between weekly Silicon Beach meetups, monthly ruby / python meetings, lean startup events, startup camps, boot camps (Pollenizer), Web Direct

[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach IRC Network

Hi everyone, I'm in the middle of working on a new startup and there are times when I just need to bounce ideas off multiple people for stuff that doesn't suit the Silicon Beach email group. It's something I do a lot on IRC In various programming rooms. Anyhow, I thought it was about time that w

Re: [SiliconBeach] IT sector? Australia doesn’t ne ed it, claims Reserve Bank

Interesting the line that different countries are taking I believe Ireland is the only country with a stand devoted to Irish startups at Le Web in Paris.. http://www.web2ireland.org/2010/10/23/ireland-to-exhibit-at-le-web-2010/ Hundreds of Australian startups in the sector would disagree wit

Re: [SiliconBeach] Tools for working with large datasets

R + 1 On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Andrew Stewart wrote: > For real quick and dirty you could leave the data in a tsv or csv file and > write some code (eg python) to parse the data and do simple calculations on > it. This works really well if all you want to do is are things like 'count > t

Re: [SiliconBeach] Code War is on again this Thursday

Would love to, but there is a Seed Accelerator party on that night tooMost of those who were at StartupCamp will be in attendance. Jonathan On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Dylan Jay wrote: > > On 13/10/2010, at 12:11 PM, Jonathan Clarke wrote: > > Any chance that the prob

Re: [SiliconBeach] Code War is on again this Thursday

Any chance that the problems can get posted after the event? Wouldn't mind tackling a few to dust the cobwebs... On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dylan Jay wrote: > Hi, > > As part of webweek[1] there is a web edition of code wars[2] happening this > Thursday night. > > Like last time team pl

Re: [SiliconBeach] Sydney StartupCamp update

Dude, It's DealPinch.com => I haven't slept since 6.30am on Friday and I can even spot that one... :D On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:21 PM, PatrickDriessen wrote: > All, > > Last evening at 6PM Sydney StartupCamp IV started at the offices of > our venue sponsors ATP Innovations. > Over 50 people got te

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Sydney StartupCamp (Oct. 8-10) & Melbourne StartupCamp (Nov. 12-14)

Last time it was in Redfern...Australian Technology Park.Doubt you'll need a hotel on Friday night, prolly will on Saturday night though. @Patrick / @Bart, can ye confirm? On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:53 PM, liam wrote: > Does anyone know the location for sydney startup camp IV? I'm trying

Re: [SiliconBeach] About to sign a confidentiality deed, is my own IP protected?

It's complicated. Is the project in the same domain? Are you going to use their equipment, resources and pick your colleagues brains? Can you see yourself working on a great idea out of work and implementing it? Speak to the hiring manager first and try and discuss that clause. Some good resour

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: recommended immigration agent??

Very timely, applying for PR myself as well. Thanks for the recommendations. Jonathan On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:14 PM, IPscape Simon wrote: > Mark > > We've used Steve Rapeport 3 times now and can highly recommend him. > His quotes have been accurate, reasoable and we've been successful > each

Re: [SiliconBeach] Sydney: "Official Friday" Silicon Beach drinks

@Elias, things have changed slightly around here: Bart has gotten all organised: http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Beach/ Jonathan @beilabs | @givefoo On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Elias Bizannes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'll be attending this Friday's Sydney drinks and look forward to sharing

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: How do you get the latest version of Google satellite images?

Open Street Map => http://www.openstreetmap.org/ On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Isaak wrote: > ...or use nearmap.com  but it's rubbish at finding address's... > > On Sep 7, 5:48 am, "rgh@gmail.com" wrote: >> Dear SBAers, >> >> I would like to grab a large number of Google maps satellite ima

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Outsourced / Off-shored Development

@Tom Adams - Get them to have a chat to Steve Gilles - @stevelikesyou on twitter. He's looking for some rails devs right now. Jonathan On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Matthieu Stone wrote: > if you must offshore then you might want to look at: > http://workingwithrails.com/ > > $AUD buys quite

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Sydney StartupCamp (Oct. 8-10) & Melbourne StartupCamp (Nov. 12-14)

See ya'll there On 29 August 2010 20:47, Bryce Summerell wrote: > Can't wait for this! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduc

Re: [SiliconBeach] Friday drinks

http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Beach/ 11 confirmed, 3 maybe...and all other stragglers.. Jonathan On 26 August 2010 16:35, Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems < geoff.mcqu...@hiivesystems.com> wrote: > Just wondering who’s keen on drinks in Sydney tomorrow night? > > -- > You received this message b

Re: [SiliconBeach] bill me later

If they are PCI compliant they could store the card info encrypted on their own servers. Otherwise they could set up a recurring payment with a payment gateway provider, but keep changing the date for the payment to occur via an API until such time that the payment is processed. Jonathan On 25 A

Re: [SiliconBeach] Hiring a coder in Australia

Post the position in github jobs. If they are a decent coder then they will be a member of github. It just launched recently and has been getting a lot of press the past couple of days so more eyeballs from developers; also github members usually post their old codebases up there in public / priv

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Hello World

Welcome to Sydney dude, I came here this week 2 years ago. Great city, great people, just make sure that you get out and get your face seen at as many events as possible. Make sure you sign up to the Startup Digest, has all the info on events happening in the city: http://thestartupdigest.com/

Re: [SiliconBeach] Allows customers to call Australia cheaply

When I was working in China I picked up a vonage box a couple of years ago for the devs back in Beijing. Plug the box into your network anywhere in the world, point a 1800 number at the US Vonage number and away you go. Not sure if they are still allowed those boxes these days, a lot of telcos we

[SiliconBeach] Drinks tonight

Are drinks happening in the Grace tonight or some other venue? Jonathan Clarke -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im

Re: [SiliconBeach] Drinks @ Bar 77 -tonight

+1 Jonathan Clarke On 14 May 2010 10:42, rgh@gmail.com wrote: > Just a question of who is coming to drinks today? > > Bar77 has changed it's two for one happy hour from 5.30pm to start > earlier at 5.00pm > > > Richard Hayes > 0414 618 425 > > -- > You

Re: [SiliconBeach] Grace Hotel Friday night drinks

+1 - I've been lurking here for far too longsee ye there on the 14th at 6pmany more coming? On 7 May 2010 20:20, Trindaz wrote: > Silly me shoulda checked the group before assuming there'd be a > Silicon Beach crowd at the Grace Hotel tonight! Friday night next week > anyone? > > -- > Yo

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