Jonathan, What are you trying to achieve?
Identify and/or sell to new customers? Distributors/resellers/agents? Find some big IT outfit to licence your tech into their solution? Start the acquisition process? Start the fundraising process? Just get a 'feel' for the place? Test your business/technology solution 'pitch' and get some validation from the industry? Really have a holiday but need to make sure you've got enough evidence of work for a tax write-off? The advice from this list has been great already for some of those categories of objective; if you get a bit more specific with the above, as well as provide some background on where your tech sits strategically and what its benefit is I think you'll get some really really great advice from the list. Without even more context though, we could be giving you bad ideas because we're really just making a lot of assumptions (where to assume makes an 'ass' out of 'u' & 'me'). Geoff Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Williams <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 4 February 2009 8:09 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [SiliconBeach] Re: Networking Opportunities in SF, SV, NY Hi, Thanks - Yeah - Sorry, I guess I should have given a lot more context to that question. We're working on a collaborative modelling tool - so we're squarely in the the Meta-Data / XML / Unstructured-Data area. Our main target at the moment will be government and corporates, but there is also a strong opportunity in open source (e.g. standards groups). Technology wise we're interested in functional programming, map-reduce, distributed technologies. Business wise we're interested in integration - e.g. the HL7 standard, financial service regulatory reporting, interchange standards (as we see this a prime segment for us). It seems strange, but we don't have a fixed agenda for the trip. Obviously we want to network, seek funding, partners, like-minded people to team up with, etc - However, we see these as having a very long trajectory, so the idea is really to get over there and start seeding / leading into those relationships now. So suffice to say we're casting a wide net at this stage. Thanks, J ps. We have a blog (http://blog.jodoro.com) - but it's more of a running dialogue than anything specific at the moment. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM, David Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > what is your business? (I may have deleted your intro/delurk). I can let a > few aussies in the bay area know you are coming but it sounds like you are > looking for busdev meetings - would help for some background. thx d. > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:15 PM, jwilliams <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> My Business Partner and I are heading over to the US for March/April - >> (We're normally Melbourne-based, but in Perth at the moment). >> >> Time will be spread between San Francisco, Silicon Valley and New York >> - although we'll be making a few side trips as necessary. >> >> We've got a handful of meetings lined up, but obviously the more we >> can do the better. >> >> Has anyone here been on a similar trip? If anyone can recommend some >> starting points that would be really useful. >> >> Thanks, J >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/99938a0fbc691eeb To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
