[SiliconBeach] Re: "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" (and the absence of same)

2012-03-14 Thread Kim Heras
> > I think Andrew and Mick have summed this up nicely. > > From my experience most, but not all, Aussie startups either lack vision > or have vision but don't have the experience to understand how to execute > sequentially from something small and focused to something large and > broadly disru

[SiliconBeach] Re: "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" (and the absence of same)

2012-03-14 Thread Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer)
Is the ambition around the financial impact or the real world impact? It doesnt' have to be both. We're trying to be more agressive with Pygg, Wooboard and Coachy all aiming to be global and have a big impact. Wooboard's goal is a trillion Woo's by 2020 - just 999,992,000 to go! The challenge is

[SiliconBeach] Re: "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" (and the absence of same)

2012-03-13 Thread drllau
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/eatyourowndogfood.asp I'd side with @Andrew on this, often it is not clear initially what may be a billion dollar idea cf million ... a lot of accidental entrepreneurs turn out that way (eg twitter was castigated at start). If SBers can focus on executing, then

[SiliconBeach] Re: "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" (and the absence of same)

2012-03-13 Thread Geoff Langdale
Shane - aren't you meant to be working on Immortal Outdoors for Startup Chile? The "let's cover the Internet with even more commentards" idea has been kicking around since the mid 90s (I remember a bunch of us trying to hack Netscape to do this in the mid-90s, during grad school) and it's not getti

[SiliconBeach] Re: "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" (and the absence of same)

2012-03-13 Thread drllau
http://www.crashdev.com/2012/03/who-loves-you-who-fears-you.html < quote> If your startup idea -- implemented with quality + urgency -- doesn't scare the pants off one or more big and dangerous incumbents, most venture investors won't give a shit about it < /quote> Hard problems are characterised

[SiliconBeach] Re: "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" (and the absence of same)

2012-03-12 Thread Malcolm Lambert
On Mar 13, 12:31 pm, Geoff Langdale wrote: > But where are the ambitious startups (or growth companies) in Sydney > that are doing something hard and with a broad reach? Geoff Good to get a provocative question. I'd like to nominate my own startup, Intresto. Ambitious - developing the first softw