[SiliconBeach] Re: Whats the angel investment community like in Melbourne

Also have a look at Christine Kaine's Business Angels group - www.businessangels.com.au Cheers Peter On Jul 21, 10:15 pm, Murray wrote: > Whats the angel investment community like in Melbourne? > > How easy or hard is it to get seed round investment? > > Whats the best way to go about it? > > M

[SiliconBeach] Good book - on entrepreneurship and venture capital

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/one-book-every-entrepreneur-and-vc-should-own/ Cheers Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Visting http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that yo

[SiliconBeach] Re: Hardware Startups down under

I am late to this discussion but there are a number of issues that you need to consider. 1. If your product will be high volume, low cost then go asia for design & manufacture (ie consumer stuff). Asian ODMs (Original Design + Manufacture), particularly Taiwnaese, will do the hardware and firmware

[SiliconBeach] Launch Silicon Valley

Hi all, For any statups out there interested in acsessing US VC (and getting in frornt of top tier angels and VCs), ' Launch: Silicon Valley' is happening again: "In its 6th year, Launch: Silicon Valley is now firmly established as the premier product launch platform for cash strapped startup

[SiliconBeach] Re: RnD PreApprovals

HI Rebecca We are an Registered Research Agency and many of our clients got their tax concession cheque upfront for their R&D spend (about 35% of the amont which is particularly attractive to VCs because they only have to put in 65% upfront). The R&D had to not only be pre-approved but it also ha

[SiliconBeach] Re: Mobile Ibtenret Trends

I should note that 'ibtenret' is the hotttes trend on twitter right now (joking). Please excuse my high speed typing on a iphone P On Feb 18, 9:48 am, innovation9 wrote: > Hi Y'all > > You may find this interesting - Mary Meeker's latest presentation on > mob

[SiliconBeach] Mobile Ibtenret Trends

Hi Y'all You may find this interesting - Mary Meeker's latest presentation on mobie Internet trends from Feb 2011: http://read.bi/e1Fd2D Cheers Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://groups.

[SiliconBeach] Re: Silicon Beach or other startup gatherings in Melbourne

Hi Yuval Welcome to old blighty. Also have a look at the Churchill Club (www.churchillclub.org.au) - the oledst Melbourne tech focussed grouping with regular events on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech trends and investment. Cheers Peter ups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=e

[SiliconBeach] Re: Any advice for a Defence / Security start-up?

Hi Richard You note you 'have access to technology' - does that mean you license it, own it, are getting it out of a uni or something else? Depending upon your response that will either interest or turn off any VC or funder. If you plan to move to the US then Virginia/Maryland/DC is the best plac

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for 2 co-founders.

Andrew You might want to have a look at this article re succesful founders of start-ups - in other words perhaps look for older co-founders: hhttp://www.slate.com/id/2278383/ Cheers Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Gui

[SiliconBeach] Re: PI & PL insurance recommendation

company though with all employees directors at present. > > Thanks for the info anyway - I'll look them up. > > Steve > > > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:28 AM, innovation9 wrote: > > Steve > > > AIMIA offer specialist PI and PD for Online and ICT industries f

[SiliconBeach] Re: PI & PL insurance recommendation

Steve AIMIA offer specialist PI and PD for Online and ICT industries for its members through Armstrong Nisbet. Robin Nisbet the principal seems good to work with and paperwork overhead not to extreme. Alternately APESMA (the professional engineers body) also offer PI & PD for their members. We g

[SiliconBeach] Churchill Club - "Tablet Wars - iPad vs the rest" Thursday 9/12 at The Leveson

Should be a good sesison tonght - I'm defenidng the iPad as the tablet of choice while my fellow panellists will be defending all those lesser ones like the Samsung and the other 35 that are being released in the next few months. Hope to see you there. Peter -- You received this message because

[SiliconBeach] Churchill Club Australia: 5th Annual 'Venture Capital 2011 - What's Hot , What's Not'. Thurs 2nd Dec at the Leveson Hotel North Melbourne.

Team Some good speakers - John Dyson of Starfish Ventures, Doron ben Meir CEO of Commercialisation Australia and Russell Yardley long term ICT figure and investor (& yours truly as MC). More info at: http://www.churchillclub.org.au/ (btw the Club motto is 'No Hype, No Spin No Powerpoint' - so yo

[SiliconBeach] Latest release - Mary Meeker’s Wnde rful 'State Of The Web And Disruptive Innovation'

Lots of learnings for us all. Enjoy. Peter http://read.bi/borVXK -- 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 lurk

[SiliconBeach] Churchill Club 7th Oct - 'Deal Maker'

This event looks good - anybody going ? Deal Maker Thursday, 07 October 2010, 17:30 - 20:00 http://www.churchillclub.org.au/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=352 Upstairs @ The Leveson Hotel, 46 Leveson St, North Melbourne. Sausage Software, Freeonline, Looksmart, Adacel,

[SiliconBeach] Hydrix's Quality, Environment and Safety Accredited

Hey Team Another small boast if I may - I just wanted to let you know that effective Friday last week, Hydrix are now formally accredited to the global ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environmental) and AS/NZS 4801 (Safety) Management Systems. The process was long and required significant investme

[SiliconBeach] Re: Melbourne Wednesday Night Drinks

I would definitely be up for that ... but I've got to say it can be bloody slow getting to Fitzroy during peak hour from glorious downtown Carnegie... is there somewhere groovy in Prahran, Toorak or Richmond that is easy for everyone to get to ? Peter -- You received this message because you a

[SiliconBeach] Hydrix is hiring - we need needs gun Software & Electronics Design Engineers + Project Managers asap

Hi Team Apologies for the overt job ad (hope it is okay to post this - flame me if not) but Seek et al have turned up zero. We urgently need a number of software engineers (embedded C, C++, Linux etc), electronics engineers and project managers for a range of big design & development projects we'

[SiliconBeach] Hydrix (finally) accredited by Apple for both hardware and software developments for iPhone, but...

Hey Guys Just wanted to let you know that we were finally approved by Apple to develop both software and hardware (dock plug in and wireless accessories) for the iPhone & iPad - apparently the first in Australia with both accreditations. Woo Hoo ! That being said, its not a pretty or fast process

[SiliconBeach] Morgan Stanley Internet Trends 2010 +

Hey team You might find the presentation at the URL that follows of interest. A presentation by Morgan Stanley from mid last month at the CM Summit in NYC about the recent and future trends for the internet and mobility: http://www.slideshare.net/CMSummit/ms-internet-trends060710final It's clea

[SiliconBeach] Hi Y'all

Peter Lewis here. Currently GM - Bus Dev with Hydrix (a software and electronics design consultancy with strong mobile software and hardware development expertise), previously Head of Corporate Business Development for CSIRO, and before that I led Austrade's global technology team, based in Silicon