Re: [SiliconBeach] Employing staff in overseas countries

2010-04-22 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Second what Bart said about oDesk. However, be prepared to go through some hurt first and once you find a few good providers, then stick them. Tyrone On 23 April 2010 15:11, Bart Jellema wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I have no experience with hiring overseas staff... but why not use > http://www.oDe

[SiliconBeach] Re: data.australia.gov

2009-09-30 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Thanks for sharing. A great step in the right direction. TC 2009/9/30 dekrazee1 > > Just wanted to share http://data.australia.gov.au/ - "your connection > with government" (their words not mine :)) in case anyone hasn't seen > it yet. > > Welcomed step in the right direction imo! > > Rai > >

[SiliconBeach] Re: Digital Media Sales

2009-08-18 Thread Tyrone Castillo
with that credibility, you can try and call on > agencies, or even better, have their end clients asking ‘why aren’t be > advertising on X’ and demanding their agencies seek you out. > > > > > > > > *From:* silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto: > silico

[SiliconBeach] Re: Digital Media Sales

2009-08-18 Thread Tyrone Castillo
> -- > > *From:* Nick HaC [mailto:nick...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:05 AM > *To:* tyrone.casti...@gmail.com > *Cc:* Riley Batchelor > *Subject:* Re: [SiliconBeach] Digital Media Sales > > > > Connecting you Tyrone

[SiliconBeach] Digital Media Sales

2009-08-17 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Hey all, Hoping to get some advice from the sales gurus within this group. I'm entering the sales phase. Been lucky so far with some presales :D Anyway, just wanted to know if any of you guys have any tips for selling digital media (ads) to the entertainment sector? I purposely asked this at a

[SiliconBeach] Re: low cost CRM/ Sales mgmt system

2009-08-09 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Further to Pieter's question; any suggestions for cloud-based CM that has a decent demo (3 months min) or free basic product (say for 1-2 users)? TC 2009/8/9 Pieter Peach > > What are some of these "social" CRM tools that I've heard people > talking about. Like Highrise, where (from what I ga

[SiliconBeach] Re: Mobile phones + office phones + ISPs

2009-08-05 Thread Tyrone Castillo
needing to change > anything. > > In the near future we will be looking at setting up a virtual PBX to make > things a bit easier for handing off calls and making conference calls. > > Hope this helps, > Jason > > 2009/8/5 Tyrone Castillo > > Hey all, >> >&

[SiliconBeach] Mobile phones + office phones + ISPs

2009-08-04 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Hey all, I wanted to get an idea on who some you (specifically, team sizes of 2-4), are using for home office setup? My first priority is to change over mobile phone providers and setup 2 landlines, but if there is a deal that includes everything (i.e. mobile, isp, landline, 1300, etc) then I'll

[SiliconBeach] Re: Support Small Business and Join the Australian Business Party

2009-07-25 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Seems to be a bit of tension in this thread. Kind of reminds me of this interview: http://bit.ly/12VSkf TC On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Jason_au80 wrote: > > Yes, but there's a big difference between "getting votes", and getting > enough votes to either win, or to force another party to a

[SiliconBeach] Re: Get In Early

2009-07-21 Thread Tyrone Castillo
No conversation == SPAM If OP said something along the lines of, "hey, anyone interested in ACS event, there's one coming up. Let me know and I'll post link etc" Instead of blasting the unsolicited announcement. Fine line isn't it :D TC On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Sam Lai wrote: > > I do

[SiliconBeach] Re: Get In Early

2009-07-21 Thread Tyrone Castillo
My vote, yes TC On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Nick HaC wrote: > This borders on spam? Yes/No? > > 2009/7/21 Yasas > > >> Don’t miss the EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION for the ACS 2009 International >> Young ICT Professionals conference. >> >> The6th annual International Young ICT Professionals Con

[SiliconBeach] Re: Examiner

2009-07-18 Thread Tyrone Castillo
I was checking the patents this morning and came across a nice filing from our friends over a Google Inc. They filed a patent for predictive traffic technology. Something like that would be considered innovative for tools such as iTraffic App and would only get more accurate when complimented with

[SiliconBeach] Re: Cheapest Conference Call service in Australia?

2009-07-16 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Just a quick side note on Skype. Be aware that there is a limit to the number of people in the conference. >From personal experience, adding more than 4 people to the conversation degrades voice quality exponentially. Tyrone On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:37 AM, BrianMenzies wrote: > > if you don'

[SiliconBeach] Re: I have an idea. It's called Clique Space(TM).

2009-06-22 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Clique Space sounds interesting to me. Sounds to me that is a protocol of sorts. Also, could you elaborate on "media" from CS' perspective? Ta, Tyrone On 22/06/2009, at 5:13 PM, Sam Lai wrote: > > Sounds interesting. Could you elaborate on what these 'ICT devices' > might be, and what kind

[SiliconBeach] Re: Mapping the worlds innovation hubs

2009-06-15 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Hey Ryan, the first page lists Sydney as a Hot Spring too, but not listed because the growth rates were off the charts. Sometimes, its what's not said that is important :) Congrats to all the Blues being off the charts. At least we'll have the State of Origin again :P Tyrone On 16/06/2009,

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-02 Thread Tyrone Castillo
I like the non-portal idea. Who needs another Facebook really. Bring on the gDubbya! On 02/06/2009, at 9:44 PM, Griffyn wrote: > > Whatever is built could have some structure that defines groups by > city, an 'area' that residents of a particular city would naturally > gravitate. Grouping wil

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Tyrone Castillo
> Can you explain what you would get out of a forum? How would that be > different than this mailing list? (there is already a web-interface > with threading support for this) Thought that the website would replace this group so it would be a place for people to post questions and answers. > A

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Tyrone Castillo
If you're doing it as an exercise in Drupal, perhaps as a learning project for a bigger one, then fine. Ning would be fantastic for this unless there's already functionality that has been discussed offline. Anyway, if you are going to build it then I would look for a forum, a wiki and a Twi

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Tyrone Castillo
+1 to Ning idea. Saves time and easy to get up and running. Tyrone On 02/06/2009, at 3:35 PM, Peter Griffyn wrote: > Silicon Beach Ning Network? > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Ryan Cross > wrote: > > Its been about a year since the website was started and we still > haven't done anythi

[SiliconBeach] Re: fwd: Wrapup and publicly editable briefing paper for the Public Sphere event on high speed bandwidth

2009-05-28 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Hi Pia, Similar situation to mmpl1, until recently. Brand new development and house (20 mins from Brisbane's CBD). Couldn't get any wired broadband (that's right, not even ADSL1). Tried with 5 different ISPs and twice with Telstra. After 5 months and multiple 3+ hr long conversations with T

[SiliconBeach] Re: Gov role in ICT industry development in Australia (was: Budget discussion)

2009-05-21 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Not sure what happened but wasn't there going to be a {{Beach?}}- Combinator of sorts? Don't remember who was doing the organising, but I think that the discussions went offline. TC On 21/05/2009, at 5:49 PM, Matt Moore wrote: > > How about a version of Kiva for would-be angel investors?

[SiliconBeach] Re: Tax Changes for Startups in Budget09

2009-05-18 Thread Tyrone Castillo
From what I understand of it (as explained by the video) it seems stupid. To me it looks like its attempt to plug the exec pay issues (ppl are upset about paying large sums to non-performing execs). This is a band aid approach with little or no consideration to how it affects the small to

[SiliconBeach] Re: Transit

2009-03-08 Thread Tyrone Castillo
e okayed.. > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Andrew Boyd > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Tyrone Castillo > wrote: > > I asked a mate who maintains contact with RailCorp. > > I asked him to snoop around about the iPhone app; and here's what &

[SiliconBeach] Re: Transit

2009-03-08 Thread Tyrone Castillo
You'd probably also ask why there needs to be 2 timetables. On 09/03/2009, at 10:21 AM, Andrew Boyd wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Tyrone Castillo > wrote: >> I asked a mate who maintains contact with RailCorp. >> I asked him to snoop around about

[SiliconBeach] Re: Transit

2009-03-08 Thread Tyrone Castillo
I asked a mate who maintains contact with RailCorp. I asked him to snoop around about the iPhone app; and here's what he got. You see RailCorp have two timetables DWT (Daily Working Timetable) and the live timetable. The developer has simply got the DWT and fed it to the iphone. The problem w

[SiliconBeach] Re: Government Sells Out, Will Release NBN Report for $3,631.99

2009-02-17 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Correctomundo! Even if you ponied up the charge, you'd be left with very little time. On 18/02/2009, at 10:53 AM, bengrubb wrote: > > Issue being no one can scrutinise it... *sad face* > > On Feb 18, 9:42 am, Tyrone Castillo wrote: >> That's what they do for mo

[SiliconBeach] Re: Government Sells Out, Will Release NBN Report for $3,631.99

2009-02-17 Thread Tyrone Castillo
That's what they do for most "tenders" and other large spending /sinicism On 18/02/2009, at 10:40 AM, bengrubb wrote: > > The issue is that the government will release it in a matter of days > (know conroy... probably not) AFTER they decide who they chose. > > Catch 22 > > On Feb 18, 7:50 am,

[SiliconBeach] Re: question about startup funding in Australia

2009-02-11 Thread Tyrone Castillo
That's 12, I'll be number 13 :) So count me in for $500. Tyrone On 12/02/2009, at 2:44 PM, Sriram Panyam wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > I am in too. Great idea. > > cheers > Sri > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Phil Sim wrote: > > I think that makes ten. $5k raised in about an hour! > > I

[SiliconBeach] Re: question about startup funding in Australia

2009-02-05 Thread Tyrone Castillo
I've finally caught up with this thread and I am very excited with this idea. I was at a dinner last night (prior to a somewhat disappointing Top Gear Live) and spoke to a few traditional business types. I was surprised at the level of interest they had with startups. One guy in particular

[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach ground rules

2009-01-22 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Hello all, To comply with the guidelines. My name is Tyrone Castillo. I've had a varied career from acting, software engineering, RAAF explosives engineering officer, consulting as a project manager/systems engineer and business develop manager for KBR (NSW); to running a coup

[SiliconBeach] Re: Jobs / Vacant Positions.

2009-01-22 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Worse still is "Oh you have 6 years experience in , we were looking 10" I've seen many candidates get turned back who probably would have a better fit in the org than someone who has been warming the seat longer. On 23/01/2009, at 10:52 AM, Sriram Panyam wrote: > actually whats worse is

[SiliconBeach] Re: Transparency on Spending

2009-01-14 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Jeff Best mashup ever. I can see why restauranteurs may get pissed off. Hopefully this will help places like Coogee Bay Hotel ;P -- Tyrone On 15/01/2009, at 12:11 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > >> Actually that was part of what I was thinking of. Infact it would be >> awesome if the said si

[SiliconBeach] Re: Key challenges for 2009?

2009-01-12 Thread Tyrone Castillo
That is exactly what I have done. I used to do this for large projects and definately see the alue in doing so in the micro/smb arena. At least in terms of con On 13/01/2009, at 2:44 PM, Elias Bizannes wrote: > If you are a consultant working alone, why don't you borrow some > thinking from

[SiliconBeach] Re: Key challenges for 2009?

2009-01-12 Thread Tyrone Castillo
Hello all, First time poster, long time lurker. That is the approach that I have taken. In my previous life, that is exactly what I used to with large opportunities (big projects from gov and multinationals). I definitely see the value in applying this approach to the micro/smb area, espe