[SiliconBeach] Re: What Steve Blank et al mean by Failure is analogous to Test Driven Development

2012-11-10 Thread chexton
I quite like this analogy Rod. Nice! It's the first time I've seen it used (perhaps it's common knowledge?) Either way...I may be borrowing it ;). On Saturday, November 10, 2012 12:20:23 PM UTC+11, Rod Clarke wrote: Steve Blank and Eric Ries talk a lot about failure, but they are not

[SiliconBeach] Re: Bootstrap from Twitter

2011-11-16 Thread chexton
We've recently been using Bootstrap on our internal projects (e.g. wishkeepr.com) and, as Ivan said, it's the way to go if you're trying to get something out there quickly. It saves a heap of time tweaking CSS (which can often take longer than expected). It's not too hard to customise elements

[SiliconBeach] Re: Are you on Twitter?

2011-09-28 Thread chexton
@chexton for me :). On Sep 28, 3:54 pm, Derek Winter derek.win...@ergoconsulting.com.au 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 bound to be plenty of other people, so

[SiliconBeach] Re: Social payments beta testers wanted

2011-08-03 Thread chexton
James, Firstly, the site looks nice. More importantly the concept sounds very interesting...is it similar to Venmo but via Tweets / your own system rather than SMS? I'd love to find out more purely out of curiosity. I should be attending the next Bank 2.0 Meetup (whenever that may be) so if

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

2011-06-14 Thread chexton
They're both good suggestions and, as the response to this thread highlights, the time is right. 1. It seems to me that there is a high demand for developers (front and back end) in the Sydney startup scene so a job board can only help the process of connecting people. I know myself that often I