Hi all - Quick intro... I have a business called Domain Partners, www.domainpartners.com.au and I must apologise for the site itself, it is the ugliest in Australia (we're 3 months old please be gentle). We are acquiring, leasing and joint venturing with premium domain owners in Australia and will look abroad soon. None of our sites are live but for instance we recently acquired the following: software.com.au server.com.au & servers.com.au network.com.au printers.com.au notebook.com.au repairs.com.au cables.com.au
There's about 90 more, the best will be developed. We have some others too that will be public over the next couple of months. About me... I have been working in online since '99 in roles at Ozemail, Austar and Google in that order. I was at Google for four years, in sales/business development. Great fun (lovely food, you should all get in there at some stage) but need to do my own thing and decided to embrace several online businesses rather than focus on only one. We're very specific in what we want to go into though, so I tell my wife that is still "focus". Hiring starts in January. We need gun software engineers and PHP, MYSQL, AJAX and general web dev stuff like creating reusable content modules. Experience in using third party tools that are available on the net to make things happen quickly is also invaluable. We're well enough funded but bootstrapping it initially. Thanks for the soap box, reply to find out more and I will see you at the Grace soon :) On Dec 2, 4:21 pm, "David Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
