http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach A podcast about Aussies, technology 'n stuff Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:39:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week Bronwen Clune and Elias Bizannes talk to the fabulous Mick Liubinskas. There are not many people in Australia who have the sort of web industry experience that Mick Liubinskas and his business partner Phil Morle have, both having been involved in Kazaa and a number of Australian start-ups. ... http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/12/09/silicon-beach-8-mick-liubinskas-about-start-up-basics/ This week Bronwen Clune and Elias Bizannes talk to the man behind the Inquistr, Duncan Riley, who is pretty well-known in Australia and overseas as having been the man behind the Blogging Herald, a co-founder of B5 media, a writer for TechCrunch and now finally doing his own thing again ... http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/11/24/silicon-beach-7-duncan-riley-on-advertising-as-a-legitimate-web-based-business-model/ In this week's show Bronwen Clune and Elias Bizannes talk to Rob Antulov from 3eep - a social networking solution for sports clubs. We speak to Rob about how he and his business partner Nick Gonios came up with the idea for 3eep two years ago and all they have learnt ... http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/11/17/silicon-beach-6-rob-antolov-on-the-challenges-of-bringing-web-20-into-non-techy-markets/ In this week's show we worship at the the altar of Mark Pesce ... and have a chat about the Government's proposed mandatory ISP filtering. We talk about the technical and social aspects of implementing a law like this, what effect it could have on Australian tech innovation as well ... http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/10/30/silicon-beach-5-mark-pesce-on-isp-filtering-the-social-political-economical-and-technical/ Martin Hosking has to be one of Australia's best success stories in creating a vibrant and growing web community with Red Bubble. RedBubble.com founders Martin Hosking, Peter Styles and Paul Vanzella Photo: Australian Anthill magazine. Martin is also one of those rare (in the Australian scene atleast) web veterans, having been previously ... http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/10/19/silicon-beach-4-martin-hosking-gives-his-insights-into-making-it-as-an-australian-start-up/ This week we caught up with Melboune Based Steve Sammartino, founder of Rentoid.com. Rentoid was founded 12 months ago as an online marketplace to connect people who want to rent items. The business is cashflow positive and in led by Steve who has a background in marketing. In the episode we discuss: - ... http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/10/09/silicon-beach-3-steve-sammartino-on-rentoid-and-being-a-cashflow-positive-business-early-on/ In this week's show we chat to Matthew Macfarlane one of the partners in a new investment fund - Yuuwa Capital - which will concentrate on IT and Life Science oriented start-ups. Yuuwa - made up of Matt and two other partners - were recently successful in their application for $20 ... http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/10/03/silicon-beach-2-matthew-macfarlane-on-australias-newest-investment-fund/ Steve Sammartino, who escaped his cubicle to start Rentoid.com wrote a great piece in Australian Anthill magazine on The truth about ideas. From Steve: The truth is this: there is no such thing as a big idea. All ideas are essentially created equal. All ideas are the same size. Ideas only exist ... http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/09/25/your-ideas-worth-nothing/ Welcome to the first episode of the Silicon Beach Australia podcast, hosted by Bronwen Clune and Elias Bizannes. We're joined in the show today by Mike Cannon-Brookes, one of the founders of the hugely successful enterprise software company Atlassian. Things that we discuss include: - Mike shares his lessons from his first startup: ... http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/2008/09/19/silicon-beach-1-mike-cannon-brookes-on-making-it-as-an-australian-based-start-up/