[SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Dong
@Jeromy Evans: Unfortunately law firms are generally not early adopters. Every industry has its own early adopters and laggards. As long as the technology could help people make more money, I'm sure there are someone who are willing to try a new product out. One just need some insider info to

[SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Dong
I just run a quick search on twendly to see whether we could find more people in those industries. Got some interesting results worth sharing. http://twendly.com/?q=melbourne+law+firms {{{ People from legal media: #2: The New Lawyer @thenewlawyer | Sydney Kate Gibbs

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Burch
@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-austra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dylan Jay Sent: Tuesday, 5 January 2010 4:55 PM To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site On 05/01/2010, at 4

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-05 Thread Matt Moore
Of Dylan Jay Sent: Tuesday, 5 January 2010 4:55 PM To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site On 05/01/2010, at 4:45 PM, Alex Dong wrote: so who needs to find connectors

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-05 Thread Phil Sim
Interesting that you cite autonomy as being a different type of play. They actually have an Expert Locator in their product set, so I'd suggest they'll be a major if not your biggest competitor. As Twendly stands now, I don't see a great deal of value add as opposed to just doing a simple key

[SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Tim Bull
Thanks for the feedback all, (and the kind words) much appreciated. My instinct says you're right Hendro - that the Enterprise problem is much more monetisable. Twendly is helping us solve a few issues however that make it a worthwhile distraction: 1. Give us a live demo without Enterprise

[SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Alex Dong
Great conversation. Thought I might be able to provide some background of what we're doing. Let's forget about twitter for the moment. I'd prefer to leave it to historians to make a judgement on whether twitter is providing value or not. As Tim has mentioned, we're using twitter as a data source

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Dylan Jay
On 05/01/2010, at 2:54 PM, Alex Dong wrote: #4. Our current goal is to help people to find influencers and connectors within a community. ( The Tipping Point, anyone? ) The whole internet could be one community, this google group could be one, a 300-employee company or a 150,000-people

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Elias Bizannes
#4. Our current goal is to help people to find influencers and connectors within a community. ( The Tipping Point, anyone? ) The whole internet could be one community, this google group could be one, a 300-employee company or a 150,000-people corporation all can be treated as a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-04 Thread Joz Ong
GMT+1100 (EST) Subject: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site so who needs to find connectors and how badly do they need it? Spot on, Dylan. This is exactly what we're hoping to learn from silicon beach community. Alex