Hi all, I'm James, I've just moved to Sydney from Manchester, England.
Right now I'm finding my feet and looking for quick income to get myself set up. My technology background is primarily open source (PHP, MySQL, PERL, C, Linux, etc), so if anyone has any suggestions for freelance or short term contract work programming or doing sysadmin, I'd love to hear about them. Business wise I ran my own business back in the UK, but due to co- founder disagreements I'm no longer a part of that. We were teaching people the taxi 'knowledge' for our bread and butter income, and the long term plan was to own the consolidation of the UK taxi industry. I still want to go back and finish off that project, but I'm taking some time out to relax, work on easier projects, and build up my track record and capital. I'm going to start a business here in Australia, but I haven't decided what yet. Some ideas include: Online prescription glasses sales: There's a company doing really well with this in the UK. The niche isn't empty in Australia, but seems overpriced. Online takeaway ordering: Again, a company in Europe is doing really well with this, and it doesn't seem to have hit Australia yet. Social Calendar for iPhone etc: On my phone, I have a calendar that beeps to tell me whenever anything I think is interesting will be happening. I built up a list of interesting weekly events over time manually. It'd be great if there was a service where I could say where I was, what I was interested in, and it'd tell me what was on near me. Bonus points if it could pick up my location via GPS when travelling. Anyone got any comments on the business ideas? I'd love some feedback. Please accept my apologies, as I RSVP'd yes to the drinks last night, but couldn't make it due to covering my hosts kitchen and all of my clothes with delicious home made tomato soup. I'm looking forward to meeting you next week! Kind Regards, James -- 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
