Re: [SiliconBeach] Cranleigh

357New York > +61-2-9016-5642(Sydney in-dial). > +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial). > > > > > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population> > > > > > > *From:* silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto: &g

Re: [SiliconBeach] Cranleigh

> which lets face it is pretty close density wise…… > > > But hey…..keep telling me how Australia isn’t the same as other > countries…….. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Dean > > > > *From:* silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto: > silicon-beach-

Re: [SiliconBeach] Cranleigh

You cannot compare the distances in the UK to the distances in Australia - the challenges here for rolling out networks are so much higher. Not insurmountable, of course, but just more expensive to solve. The UK is less than a third of the size of NSW. Had to be said... 😀 On Tue., 2 Jul. 2019,

Re: [SiliconBeach] What do you think?

Google photos is already doing what you're suggesting... am I missing something? Silvia. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you int

Re: [SiliconBeach] Dealing with Enterprise customers as a small business

I've been wondering if in this situation you can ask for an extra fee for the extra legal and administrative overhead that is introducing. Best Regards, Silvia. On 8 Sep 2016 2:58 PM, "James Peter" wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has experience running a small business selling > to Enterpris

Re: [SiliconBeach] Help finding a mentor!

There's always coach.me out clarity.fm or for women there is http://www.propellher.com/. All the accelerators put you in touch with good mentors also. Best Regards, Silvia. On 13 May 2016 2:36 PM, "Raman Biaroza" wrote: > I was hoping to see the flood of answers here. strange noone replied.

Re: [SiliconBeach] Instore beacon experiences

It's part of the big new hype around IoT. I think it's definitely on the hype curve on the way up, but I have also seen some sensible use cases. Like all new technology: it'll take a while to get to the really good ideas. Just my 2c worth, Silvia. On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Dean Collins wr

Re: [SiliconBeach] Trip to the Valley

tape. >7. Listen to all advice, but be careful about who's advice you take on >board - mine especially. Everyone's journey is different, so read widely >and take in as much advice as people will give you but don't trust any of >it until you've had

[SiliconBeach] Trip to the Valley

Hi all, On Friday, I'm travelling to the Valley for a 2 week trip to immerse myself into the startup culture and make some good contacts. I work for NICTA (now: DATA61) and have created Coviu as a spin-in company. Coviu provides in-browser video collaboration functionality beyond talking heads: w

Re: [SiliconBeach] survey question for people with high-school kids

Hey dean, Can you change the first question. It asks "do you know if" to which i'd say "yes I know". It should ask "are your kids allowed to... " to which I'd answer "no". :-) Best Regards, Silvia. On 11 Sep 2015 5:29 am, "Dean Collins" wrote: > Hi Hive, > > > > > > Not having kids I need to re

Re: [SiliconBeach] video in surveys

That's a pretty cool pitch-deck :-) On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Dean Collins wrote: > Just when you didn’t think you needed it (….or is that before you even > thought you needed it)……video and images and audio in a survey tool - > http://fabzing.com/watch/?s=bSLBdTNB > > > > Does anyone know

Re: [SiliconBeach] Yahoo LiveText

Might not be as dumb as it looks. At least it can be used by deaf people without effort of disturbing others. Also wondering if they target office workers. Cheers, Silvia. On 1 Aug 2015 6:34 am, "Geoff McQueen | AffinityLive" < geoff.mcqu...@affinitylive.com> wrote: > Was at an event they hosted

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Kids Coding Resources / Info

I would argue that coding is about as important to a modern student's life as is mathematics - and certainly more important than philosophy or ancient languages. Anyway ... fortunately that discussion is already happening in the public eye. Cheers, Silvia. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Tom All

Re: [SiliconBeach] WebRTC

Haha, lol, that just process that we can't leave modern audio and video communications to telcos. Thanks for sharing - Tim is so right! Best Regards, Silvia. On 9 Feb 2015 12:48, "Dean Collins" wrote: > Great post about the vested interests betting against WebRTC - > https://babyis60.wordpress.c

Re: [SiliconBeach] eero

I know that conferences always have an issue with coverage and scalability. Does the eero help there, too? Best Regards, Silvia. On 4 Feb 2015 08:11, "simran" wrote: > Hey Jim, > > I'd definitely be an eero user (i setup 4 netgear routers for coverage in > the house a while ago) :) > > Eero does

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Do you care if a Silicon Valley started here in Australia?

I don't see this forum being anywhere near death. But indeed: this thread is really not constructive. A culture of startups is not created by wishing it would exist but by doing it. I think one will find that most startups on this thread find the question of whether to create a silicon valley in A

Re: [SiliconBeach] #StopDataRentention

Somebody should put a restraining order on the government. That's how we would deal with such creeps in real life. Best Regards, Silvia. On 3 Oct 2014 23:00, "Dean Collins" wrote: > How awesome is this that Senator Scott Ludlam uses the Senate floor to > ask artist/musicians/geeks/creative type

Re: [SiliconBeach] Robert Scoble

Thanks, that's pretty awesome. Would be good to pick his brain! Silvia. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Dean Collins wrote: > Hey folks….thought this might be of interest to some of you - > https://www.facebook.com/events/491977144238793/491977584238749/?comment_id=491978217572019¬if_t=event_mall

Re: [SiliconBeach] Rocketboard

They should make that video work in Firefox. ;-) S. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Dean Collins wrote: > Shut up and take my money…..very cool use of existing technologies “in a way > that is different”. > - http://www.rocketboard.it/ > > > Congratulations to the team that developed this. > > >

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

Re: [SiliconBeach] Sydney $310k

I think in the US you get shares on top of the salaries, so they are comparing apples with oranges. I agree, it's not a fair comparison. Silvia. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Alex North wrote: > This looks like crap to me. > > Office > 3 desks at Fishburners is $10k p.a. Even if you ritzed it u

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Liberals NBN

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Andrew Stone wrote: > I think Patrick means megabytes (MB) not bits (Mb)? > > *so I'm not looking forward to coming back to 1 or 2Mbps in Sydney.* > > > > Should be a capital B I'm guessing... because 2Mbps is really freaking > slow, about 256 Kilobytes down which

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Payoneer as a new way to get a US Bank account number?

I'd be curious to hear how the exchange rate compares to something like ozforex. Hope it works! Silvia. On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Clifford Heath wrote: > On 05/08/2013, at 12:39 PM, I wrote: >> Has anyone used Payoneer.com to get a virtual US bank account number? > > Well, that took seven h

Re: [SiliconBeach] Silicon Beach LA

Absolutely! On 31 May 2013 09:13, "Elias Bizannes" wrote: > Hmmm > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Silicon_Beach > > Given we have the Twitter, siliconbeach.org, and have been around for > five years with press to validate -- should we clarify this befo

Re: [SiliconBeach] HSBC - Does anyone have a contact there?

Note: If you're in the US, you can just open an account with any bank. They're not really fussed. Silvia. On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Ned Dwyer wrote: > haha - I think Scott and I have the same contact. > > It took us around 2 months and was incredibly painful. 2 months with no > cash. If I

Re: [SiliconBeach] Female CEOs deliver 12% higher revenues using 33% less capital than male CEOs

ing largely comparable. > > Anyhow, I firmly believe gender equality can only arise through first > order change, second order efforts only create new bias. This is not > "dodging the issue." > > > > On 25/10/12 11:33, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> Actually, ignori

Re: [SiliconBeach] Female CEOs deliver 12% higher revenues using 33% less capital than male CEOs

Actually, ignoring the problem doesn't help. We are by sheer nature of our society biased towards specific groups. That goes far beyond gender and skin color. It happens subconsciously and we are all affected. How surprised was I to find out that I as a woman was actually also biased against women!

Re: [SiliconBeach] Female CEOs deliver 12% higher revenues using 33% less capital than male CEOs

I am, but my business is not any longer my main occupation. Still keeping in contact here though. :-) Cheers, Silvia. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:51 AM, André Levy wrote: > Women start ventures with 8% less funding than men. > > http://www.womenonbusiness.com/investing-in-women-infographic/?utm_sou

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Need a new nickname to replace "Silicon Beach"

Silicon Sails? ;-) S. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Shane Greenup wrote: > Silicon Dioxide? > > Shane > > > http://www.rbutr.com > http://www.ShaneGreenup.com > > > > > On 5 October 2012 08:23, Alison Lee wrote: >> >> Silicon South? >> >> On Friday, Octobe

Re: humility vs awesomeness - read this! (was Re: [SiliconBeach] Humility... :))

>> >> just some thoughts, i've been known to be wrong before ;) perhaps >>> >> "self" promotion is necessary, i'd like to believe otherwise, and >>> >> hopefully >>> >> will align some of what i'm saying with some of what i

Re: [SiliconBeach] Humility... :)

I know that if I don't mention what I'm good at and what I do, I get overlooked as "the secretary in the room". That's a bit too humble for me. Sorry, but I'll continue to proclaim to be an expert in blah... That doesn't mean that I proclaim to be *the one and only* expert in blah. But it also mean

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

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dylan Jay wrote: > > On 10/02/2012, at 1:16 AM, Jonathan Clarke wrote: > >> Check out http://spreecommerce.com/ >> >> 100% open source and on ruby on rails. > > > Off topic but it's what I'd call vendor open source (and so is magento... > and wordpress) which while

Re: [SiliconBeach] Good programming books for a teenager

Work for me still. My son (now 14) got into programming by learning about how to write games in python using pyglet and rabbyt. I'd say: find out what the best tool would be for him to use to achieve the task that he has set himself and find a good tutorial for him to get started in that directio

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: turntable.fm

Just log in through Facebook - I just did an I am mighty impressed! S. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Owen Kelly wrote: > I've been waiting for this concept to come to fruition for a very long > time. > Dying for an invite for months if anyone has one :D > > -- > You received this message becau

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

Ha! Time rich! :-) You'll be working your ass off for the startup - probably for years - and assuming you are successful and get rich - you will be bored out of your mind with your time richness and will want to do a new startup or public-good project or something that will eventually rob you of al

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Non-Technical Co Founders

And they have one thing in common: they target a technical market, so you already have the domain knowledge. If you wanted to offer a product for, say, dentists, you'd do well with a co-founder that knows many dentists and brings a willing trial partner. Silvia. Sent from my iPhone On 16/05/2

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

If you are a non-tech founder, please also compare your situation to somebody who is trying to build a new business in another area, say a new type of printer or a new type of washing machine. If you are looking for a tech co-founder in that space, what is it you are really trying to find? An engin

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

Great post! Just an additional thought... I actually think watching the movie "The Social Network" will tell you why a technical co-founder may not be prepared to waste their time on your idea and your features when you are a non-technical founder. Admittedly, Mark Zuckerberg in that movie is not

Re: [SiliconBeach] free online presence for aussie businesses

t; > Sent from my iPhone > > On 02/03/2011, at 13:41, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I just came across this activity by Google and MYOB: >> http://www.gettingbusinessonline.com.au and thought it relevant to us >> here. >> >> They are

[SiliconBeach] free online presence for aussie businesses

Hi guys, I just came across this activity by Google and MYOB: http://www.gettingbusinessonline.com.au and thought it relevant to us here. They are offering a free website for 1 year, a free .com.au domain for 2 years and $75 free adwords. I've seen many small businesses - coffee shops etc - not

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for rockstar developers to join BuzzNumbers sydney, any recommendations?

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Michael Guilfoyle wrote: >> What kind of software are we talking about? I don't think outsourcing >> works for anything that's technically innovative. > > Thats a misconception. There a lot of people doing seriously > innovative projects with outsourcer's. If you'v

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for rockstar developers to join BuzzNumbers sydney, any recommendations?

What kind of software are we talking about? I don't think outsourcing works for anything that's technically innovative. Silvia. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Michael Guilfoyle wrote: > why not just hire a good web/software architect to write specs and > farm about the bulk of the jobs to outso

[SiliconBeach] Fwd: Final Call for Pearcey NSW Entrepreneur Awards

FYI - final call on Pearcey awards. Cheers, Silvia. -- Forwarded message -- From: Charles Lindop Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM Subject: Final Call for Pearcey NSW Entrepreneur Awards Hi All, Sorry to interrupt you busy lives, but we need a few more nominations for the N

[SiliconBeach] Nomination for NSW Pearcey Award are open again

Hi all, The NSW Pearcey Award for 2010 nominations are open again. It is awarded to an individual during their career who have "taken a risk and made a difference" within the ICT industry within each Australian State. It is targeted at encouraging and rewarding fresh and innovative talent in the I

Re: [SiliconBeach] Shan and Richard have a new girl startup

All projects that lead to a successful launch need to be applauded. Congratulations! Fortunately, nature makes it a lot easier to actually arrive at a successful launch, even if there is still a risk for the enterprise. Again fortunately we live in a society where medical progress has highly reduce

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Software Escrow Services

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Clifford Heath wrote: > On 18/08/2010, at 12:46 PM, David Jones wrote: > >> Cliffords suggestion sounds better but in the practice the key and/or >> whole codebase would probably fit on one DVD so materially the same issue at >> the accountant office >> > > Not mat

Re: [SiliconBeach] Software Escrow Services

We got out of a similar situation by offering to put a clause into the contract that in case our company fails they have first rights to the purchase of the codebase - and few more clauses around that. Just a thought. Cheers, Silvia. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:55 AM, mich...@amethon wrote: > Hi

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: What business could you build on 1Gb/s

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Dylan Jay wrote: > > On 12/08/2010, at 4:55 PM, Bart Jellema wrote: > > Some interesting discussion here... Currently I can get about 22Mb >> downstream / 1Mb upstream on a 240Gb/month plan. The main limitations here >> are the upload speed and more importantly t

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Hiring a coder in Australia

at "just works," but which is unmaintainable--and ends up > costing far more than it should down the track to improve. It's a difficult > nut to crack--and in my mind, that's one of the key values of a skilled lead > developer or technical director. > > Cheers, >

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Hiring a coder in Australia

That said, it's actually rather difficult to find the really good people amongst a community. And sometimes you end up paying a lot of money for somebody who is actually a rather bad developer but very good at selling themselves, even amongst their really good peers. Often it's not the loudest peop

Re: [SiliconBeach] Atlassian's $60m fund raising

Holy sh...! Congratulations - that's awesome! Silvia. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Phil Sim wrote: > Just thought it was appropriate to give a shout out to Mike and Scott on the > $US60 million Accel funding - the largest investment ever made by Accel in a > software company. Amazing. > I'm

Re: [SiliconBeach] Hi Y'all

Hi Peter! You might remember me from CSIRO. I tried to revolutionise the way video is done online - and am finally getting there! Great to see you around here! Cheers, Silvia. Sent from my iPhone On 29/06/2010, at 6:21 PM, innovation9 wrote: Peter Lewis here. Currently GM - Bus Dev wit

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Is there more perceived trust in a .com domain than a .net?

I think it depends on the price. For $100, I would consider buying it. But honestly, you'll be perfectly able to create an impact-ful website with photo-merchant.com without owning the one without the "-". I would prefer marketing using photo-merchant.com over photomerchant.net - I would even pre

Re: [SiliconBeach] Redundant Servers

How important is it for you to be 100% up? If you can do with, say, 30min downtime if something fails, all you may need is a virtual server that is regularly backed up and can be brought back to the last stored state. If you need 100% uptime, you need to indeed put several servers in place and fai

Re: [SiliconBeach] Rudd Filter: take 3

I think somebody has to make a serious and well argued submission on http://www.dbcde.gov.au/online_safety_and_security/cybersafety_plan/transparency_measures/consultation_paper . Silvia. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Ash Angell wrote: > I am happy to join the "Silicon Beach #NoCleanFeed Army

Re: [SiliconBeach] Rudd Filter: take 3

Awesome article. Just how I was thinking when I read the press release and report. I think the "mandatory filtering" part is where it becomes a problem, and the dodginess of the ACMA list. If it could only be opt-in, then families can get what they ask for (though: I'm a mother and still wouldn't w

Re: [SiliconBeach] Public sphere 3

Also vote for your most important things to fix at http://senatorlundy.ideascale.com/ Silvia. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Elias Bizannes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Pia Waugh has consolidated the feedback from the public sphere forum , which > includes our Lifeguard paper. This is being handed

[SiliconBeach] Introductions

Prompted by Geoff, here's my brief intro. I'm a German living in Sydney for more than 10 years [1]. Previously, I was a research scientist at the CSIRO ICT Centre in Multimedia. In 2006, Chris Gilbey, John Ferlito and I started Vquence [2], a video technology startup in Sydney. We now have a soc

[SiliconBeach] Re: Youtube embeds: what impact on page impressions

And reduces the bounce rate. S. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Loic wrote: > > Don't have any statistics but would have said that it increases much > more the time on site than the number of impressions. > > Loïc > > On Nov 5, 6:31 pm, Tagmotion wrote: >> Does anyone have any statistics or ca

[SiliconBeach] Re: Pearcey Foundation “Young Gun s” debate and NSW awards

Hi all, This is not an invite-only event - it's open to everybody. What they mean by "invite-only" is that you have to register. Regards, Silvia. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Andrew Boyd wrote: > > Paul, > > forgive me, but I have to ask. Why announce an invite-only event? > > Best regard

[SiliconBeach] Re: any open source license expert?

> > On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 11:23 +1100, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> GPL2/3 - basically means that if you use that code in your >> application, you have to open source your application > > -- > Rob Manson > Managing Director > > MOB - start something! > Innovative

[SiliconBeach] Re: any open source license expert?

Hi Rex, If by "risk" you mean "risk of code being stolen", then it's a fairly simple thing: BSD/MIT - both basically mean that anyone can use your code in any application (closed source/open source etc) GPL2/3 - basically means that if you use that code in your application, you have to open sour

[SiliconBeach] Debate on how to create a better climate for technology entrepreneurs in NSW

Hi all, Thought this might be interesting for the people on this mailing list. The NSW Pearcey Awards are this year run with a Debate on how to create a better climate for technology entrepreneurs in NSW, see http://www.pearcey.org.au/index.php/New_South_Wales_Pearcey . The event will also high

[SiliconBeach] Re: data.australia.gov

It's not yet officially launched - only a soft launch at the NSW Public Sphere. Let's give them a chance. :) Cheers, Silvia. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Jeromy Evans wrote: > > On a similar initiative, the NSW state government recently announced a > $100k competition for: > > - ideas for a