Hi Kurt Nobody is ragging on non-techs, a successful company is always a team effort.
Reading between the lines what people are saying is that the marketing is misleading and it's giving a false hope to vulnerable people (people putting their hearts and souls into an idea). If the marketing said 'learn to code, it's fun, you might like it' that would be ok. But everyone does make mistakes and I'm sure GA will take the communities comments on board. On Friday, 7 June 2013, Kurt Falkenstein wrote: > No need to start ragging on the non-technical people on this list - we are > many, and it doesn't mean our heart isn't in it. I don't piss on my clients > because they don't have a legal qualification, instead I teach at places > like GA to help people overcome some of the early fear & mystery my > colleagues are known to pray on and charge for. That way entrepreneurs > spend less on startup legals and more on development. > > As someone who has been ripped off to the tune of tens-of-thousands by > dodgy/bad devs in Australia, good on GA for encouraging people to not be so > naive. Agreed the spamming is wrong (cringed when I saw it - they have a > marketing budget) but FFS don't make all the people who don't post on this > list - yet get immense value from the list - feel tiny and scared of > posting in case its wrong. > > Coding is hard, that's why I stick to law, because that's my game. I also > can't scaffold, can't kill animals and only learned to do good burnouts in > my car last year. > > I knew nothing about tech startups 4 years ago, went along to the original > Melbourne SB drinks when it was just 4 of us week in & out, and learned a > whole heap. I've worked with over a hundred startups now, have a couple of > my own (also failed miserably along the way too) & I can do a really good > burnouts - and I owe everything to Silicon Beach. Ragging on non-devs is > counter intuitive to what this is all about. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > > Forum rules > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs > > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com');> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', 'silicon-beach-australia%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > 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 Google Groups > "Silicon Beach Australia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'silicon-beach-australia%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
