Just quickly in regards to KickStarter - there's an Australian equivalent: http://www.fundbreak.com.au/
-- Pat On 03/11/2010, at 9:40 AM, Stephen Young wrote: > The best way to persuade students - or anyone else for that matter - > to build and support startups, is to help provide what those startups > need to survive - i.e. funding and customers (not necessarily in that > order ;-) ) > > Let's do Funding first. I believe it's in everyone's interest to make > the various funding discussion that are going on about town more open > and more transparent. Entrepreneurs would get to know who's got > money, what's a good deal, and how much of their right arm they have > to cut off to get it ;-). Angels might not like it so much, but it > would be a good thing for us. > > Then there's the new microfunding trend. I imagine most of us are > familiar with what Diaspora achieved using http://www.kickstarter.com. > We could promote something similar with a "Go Aussie" flavour. It > could even be used for pledging skills and labour. If nothing else it > would give entrepreneurs an easier way to maintain a conversation and > provide an air of legitimacy for their "three Fs". > > Customers. Who you know is eveything. At the very least, we should > be using this community to foster useful introductions. A simple mail > list like the one we currently have is too blunt an instrument for > this, which brings me back to my initial comment re. ning.com. > siliconbeach.org built on a service like that would let us do > Linked-In-like introductions. And the more intimate nature of the > SiliconBeach community would allow us to make introductions with more > confidence than we could using Linked In. > > > Steve > > > > -- > Stephen Young > Chief Bot Wrangler @ wik.me (http://wik.me) > Managing Director @ FactNexus Pty Ltd (http://factnexus.com) > Founding member @ Knowledge Rights Forum (http://knowledgerights.org) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm > > 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm 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
