[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach website

2012-09-22 Thread Victor Tsen
I found an open source web application that is very similar to Hacker News called ribbot: http://support.ribbot.com/ If some Ruby on Rails developer has the time to do a bit of tweak to it, by integrating Google Account using OAuth, we could get a Silicon Beach HN type site up and running. Che

[SiliconBeach] Startup Weekend Perth

2012-08-03 Thread Victor Tsen
Hi everyone, Perth's first Startup Weekend is on this September 7th. There's less than 30 tickets left so jump on them quickly! You can get register at http://perth.startupweekend.org/ Who else is going to be there? I'd also like to hear some tips from past participants. This will be my first

[SiliconBeach] Silicon Beach Facebook Cover Photo

2012-04-08 Thread Victor Tsen
Hi Silicon Beachers, As you may have noticed that Facebook has already rolled-out their timeline format for profiles and pages. I was wondering if there was any cool SB event photos that I could use as a cover photo for our SB Facebook page. Or if there is an awesome graphic designer that would

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

2012-01-05 Thread Victor Tsen
Congrats Shane! It's awesome to see that you stuck to Immortal Outdoors and that your persistent is paying off. Love the video and website. Will definitely be using it for my next camping trip. Good luck and all the best! Cheers, Victor Tsen http://www.victortsen.com Founder of fiink.co

[SiliconBeach] Re: Business Partner or JV

2011-10-26 Thread Victor Tsen
Here's another website to find a tech co-founder: http://techcofounder.com/ Another interesting site to check out is: http://www.weekendhacker.net/ It is a mailing list where people can trade skills to get projects done. You could find someone there to help you and maybe take it further from ther

[SiliconBeach] Re: Advice on best places to list tech jobs

2011-10-03 Thread Victor Tsen
This site maybe a bit US-centric but Smashing Magazine is a good place to advertise for UX/front-end roles: http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/ Cheers, Victor On Oct 3, 10:22 am, Geoff McQueen wrote: > We're recruiting again, and I thought I'd check in and see if there was any > SBA wisdom on good

[SiliconBeach] Re: New fund for tech start-ups

2011-10-03 Thread Victor Tsen
Thanks Oliver. Every morning I look forward to my daily StartupSmart mail. It's the first thing I read when I wake up in bed (Perth time). You guys do some quality journalism. Keep up the good work! Cheers, Victor PS: do you guys have a mobile friendly version of your site? On Oct 3, 7:43 am,

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

2011-06-12 Thread Victor Tsen
Hacker News uses the Arc Forum written by Paul Graham: http://www.arclanguage.org/ https://github.com/nex3/arc On Jun 12, 10:13 am, Elias Bizannes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I think it's time we did more with the Silicon Beach website, and two > specific use cases have become apparent. > > 1) A jo

[SiliconBeach] Re: Congrats to Elias on his new role

2011-06-04 Thread Victor Tsen
Congrats Elias! You're gonna do wonders in this new role. Tell us more about the seed program. On Jun 4, 7:51 am, Elias Bizannes wrote: > I'd like to think I created more than just a Google group :) But thanks Kim > for the kind words. > > I can't say too much publicly on what I will be doing, b

[SiliconBeach] Re: Australian Startup Show

2011-02-05 Thread Victor Tsen
It is something I would definitely be interested in Owen. Great idea! Would it be possible to also get a tour of the startup's headquarter and how they operate. Something similar to this would be very interesting: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/tc-cribs-take-a-doc-on-the-wild-side-at-scribd-wit

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

2011-01-11 Thread Victor Tsen
Peter Thiel Sean Parker Paul Graham Mike Arrington For the format the event could have one person (with Twitter contributions) interviewing the speaker or a TED-like 15 min presentation with a QnA panel afterwards. On Jan 11, 7:43 pm, Sriram Panyam wrote: > Paul Graham? > > > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2

[SiliconBeach] Re: Asking for your help to determine market size

2009-05-22 Thread Victor Tsen
Try searching for textbooks about that particular industry at your local library or Borders/Dymocks. Also knowing any academics or uni students can help as they have free access to huge online journal databases. Cheers, Victor On May 21, 10:29 pm, Mark Mansour wrote: > I'm trying to work out

[SiliconBeach] Re: Victor Chang Institute

2009-04-24 Thread Victor Tsen
*typo* first link was meant to be: http://www.jumprope.org.au/AboutUs/Pages/Default.aspx Cheers, Victor On Apr 24, 3:16 pm, Victor Tsen wrote: > -- I was originally meant to post this to the group but accidentally > sent it to Elias only -- > > Anyways, here's my input from

[SiliconBeach] Re: Victor Chang Institute

2009-04-24 Thread Victor Tsen
-- I was originally meant to post this to the group but accidentally sent it to Elias only -- Anyways, here's my input from a Gen-Y marketing uni student (taking time out from writing a uni assignment :P). Of course the best way to get through us Gen-Y's is through our peers and that is why socia

[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach: the book

2008-12-18 Thread Victor Tsen
Yeah something like Dilbert comic strips would make it funny and pleasant to read. On Dec 16, 7:37 pm, BrianMenzies wrote: > Love the idea.  I don't know much but I'm in. > Maybe we can have cartoons like Getting Real (or whatever that > 37signals book is) > Brian > ;) > > On Dec 16, 6:49 pm, El