nice one Shaon - I can see you are also keeping busy at OSDC today: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/osdc
In my intro, I forgot to mention that a friend and I run a social/community site: http://jollo.com Jollo lets you "Get the best language translation online" - for phrases. Anyone bilingual knows that all automated language are roolly bad beyond the basics. Jollo compares 6 machine translations in real-time - the Jollo Community then corrects and improves requests into registered users phrasebooks. This is just something fun we do on the side as a hobby, so any ideas/brickbats welcome :) cheers. d. On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Shaon Diwakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks David & Lang for getting the ball rolling. And since everyone has > put their hand up, I thought I'd say G'day as well :-) > Nowhere near as much experience as Lang or David and those that have > introduced themselves previously (read: I still get pimples... sometimes > :P). > > I started off as an application developer and systems administrator at the > University of Technology, Sydney in their Institute of Media & > Learning. Following on to working as a penetration tester at Ernst & Young > within their IT security consulting division. After a few years at UTS and > EY, I moved into a boutique called Sense of Security as a web > applications/networks security penetration tester. > > Recently (i.e. 4 months ago) after a lot of thought I quit the comforts and > glamour of being a corporate - suit & tie dude with the gold frequent flyer > card - to now, enjoying time to myself in my PJs, in my bedroom... > > ... coding my own projects of course :D > > I agree with David that Innovation Bay, OpenCoffee, Barcamp, Mobile Mondays > et al. have been great ways to network with like-minded professionals and > hope the effort to share knowledge keeps going; and everyone could benefit & > learn off those that have been through the process of being VC funded (or > not) and even simple things like maintaining motivation through a long > development lifecycle, getting the accounting right, incorporating, legal > counsel, co-working spaces etc. > > Additional kudos to Elias for opening up this list to all, its a good way > to figure out who else is going through the start up phase in Oz! > > Cheers, > Shaon > > P.S. Not a huge fan of really, really long walks on beaches, 'cause bike > riding is so much more efficient ;-) > > > On 01/12/2008, at 8:10 PM, David Jones wrote: > > Thanks Lang, I like what trying to be achieved here and at other places > like Innovation Bay - we need entrepreneurial bootstrap support in this > country. So about me... > > It all started when I was dropped on my head at birth, the damage sustained > caused me to be a geek and ignore my grandmother's desire for me to become a > lawyer opting to become an engineer (yes, I are one). Now, when I pay > USD$500/hr for legal mumbo-jumbo, I realise her wisdom - but I digress. > > I am Founder and CTO of threatmetrix.com, we focus on fraud and account > hijack protection/identity verification for on-line e-commerce sites. > This is a growing area as more Web2.0 business drive more value into their > sites protected only with username and password (think phoshing and > keylogging in your social networks and shopping carts). Its just not > practical for web based e-Commerce to run 2-factor auth. I CEOed the company > from inception until June08 where we appointed a US CEO - I prefer to live > in Sydney. > > Prior to that I was VP R&D of Surfcontrol, now WebSENSE a web and email > filtering business. Prior to that I was Founder and CEO of EmU Tech, who > Surfcontrol acquired. Prior to that I ran network integration and Lotus > Notes practices (this was the '90s) in Sydney. > --- > I am here to help and/or hinder from the experiences and scars, I have a > little more time as the CTO gig is not as all-consuming as CEO. After a few > years of focussing on the US and bootstrapping a business against US > competitors with 5x the funding, I am looking forward to re-connecting > locally and have been excited and delighted by the initiatives locally > despite the shortage of angel, VC and withdrawal of grants. > > I enjoy brisk walks from Dee Why to Long Reef with a coffee at the end. > regard dj > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Langy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hi I'm Lang. >> >> I'm fashion designer of label Akina. (http://www.akina.com.au) I have >> been in business since the 26th of January 2005. Akina is really >> strong on the creative/PR front but needs work on the business side of >> things. I feel I have spent the last few years building castles in the >> sky and now I need to put in the systems to support it. >> >> I am here to throw around ideas with other entrepreneurs and learn >> about new technologies I can incorporate into my business. >> >> I like long walks on the beach. >> >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
