Date
Thursday, 04 Aug 2016 5:30 PM
It’s not about ideas, it’s about making ideas happen.
Scott Belsky – Behance
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This is our main, monthly networking event. New to Silicon Beach? Scroll down to “For the Newbies” section below but best of all, come and find out for yourself.
Live stream (via Periscope) of July MSB Drinks
90 Second Pitches (not timed due to fewer pitches)
Our Sponsor : Michael from TCF Services
Contact them for the low down on R&D Tax Incentives for tech startups
Monica Wulff, CEO of Startup Muster flew in from Sydney to address our members. Thank you Monica. Please make sure you take part in the 2016 Startup Muster. It’s results are taken into account by all levels of government in their decision making.
Read last year’s report here, it makes very interesting reading.
Taylor from Innovation Melbourne, the author of the book by the same name.
You can order the book from Booktopia.
Tom the founder of GroupPop – a location based social app. Download the app and checkout the MSB group Tom has created.
Peter pitched the Botathon Club and there was a pitch from My Web Tutor
Peter from Dimension5 pitched Dimension5 co-working space for social innovators. Check out this brand new space located in Sth. Melbourne opp. the Shrine of Remembrance. There are some scholarships going for socially conscious startups to use the space free for 12 months. Apply by 31st July.
The founders of Dimension5 organise the annual Creative Innovation conference – Australia’s largest gathering of global thinkers & innovators. Ci2016 happens 7-9th November at Sofitel Melbourne on Collins. If you have an innovative startup idea that will change the world for the better, you could win 1 of 10 scholarships to this exclusive conference. Read all about it and apply here. Applications close July 29th.
There were other pitches with no websites, so we have nowhere to link.
We rolled out the landing page of the upcoming MSB website & officially launched our Instagram. You can now follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
SiliconNews will be back soon. Please subscribe directly on the MSB website with your email so that we can send it directly to you. If you are new to MSB, read past issues of SiliconNews here.
If you are distressed about the amount of emails you get from meetup about our events (an unintended consequence of being one of the most active meetup groups in the world), here’s how to stop the reminders being sent by meetup system (these are sent automatically and can be stopped only from your end).
1. Go to your profile settings ( seen under your profile photo on the desktop/laptop, not the mobile app)
2. Select Email Updates
3. Under Updates About your Groups, go to Melbourne Silicon Beach and click Edit.
4. Look for Meetup Reminders and select Never in the drop down box.
5. Untick any other options as you see fit. We suggest leaving the “Announcements to members about the group” ticked. This is so that you get SiliconNews and occasional announcements that are important. We have stopped announcing events except the monthly MSB Drinks and any special events.
As Athula explained during the July Drinks, we are seeing some members leaving us saying we are spamming them. It is never our intention to spam you .. so please follow the above instructions to stop the auto reminders from meetup.
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SiliconEvent#1 is now online.
Read all about it and buy your early bird tickets. Early bird tickets are only $15 till 31st July or sold out. 100% of the proceeds from ticket sales go to Melbourne Silicon Beach. Help strengthen the community that serves you.
If you have an event idea, pitch it to us. You can become a sponsor of one of the most active meetups in the world for no money, while earning a whole heap of free publicity and goodwill.
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New podcasts up on Silicon Beach Radio.
Sarthak & Eddie, the two co-founders of our long standing sponsors, Get Worm recently spoke to Silicon Beach Radio. Unusually for Silicon Beach Radio, the session was videoed. Here’s that video …
There’s heaps of podcasts for you to listen at Silicon Beach Radio and don’t forget to subscribe on iTunes or Android.
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Event Calendar
We have a bunch of events, workshops and classes listed on our meetup page. All organised and hosted by our partners, Collective Campus (CC) and General Assembly (GA). Check out and attend what takes your fancy. The reason we partner with them is to inspire and empower your startup.
More events, hackathons and meetups from other friends of ours are listed in our Event Calendar.
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For the newbies …
Here’s a brief run down on what happens at a MSB Drinks –
We keep everything unstructured and informal, just like a startup. This is an event all about YOU. It’s about providing you the time and the space to make connections, meet new people and find your team, or fine tune your idea. Even if you have no idea what you are going to work on, after talking to some of the people you meet on the night, you will walk out with some sense of purpose. Keep coming back and you will soon be on your way…
On the night
Get to the venue around 5:30pm to mingle and have a drink, alcoholic or non-alcoholic (there is no bar tab). Around 6.30pm we will start the main proceedings – the world famous Silicon Beach 90second pitches. We say that because we live stream it on Periscope and save it on YouTube for the world to see.
If you plan on doing a pitch, please give your web address to a friendly event host before the pitches start, so we don’t waste time typing it in. Other than that, there is no selection process to do a pitch. You can pitch just about anything provided it’s useful to the community – your startup or app, idea validation, small business (provided it’s relevant to our community), professional service, product etc. Pitches need not be about raising funds. Our best startups are bootstrapped.
Pitching at MSB Drinks have been on and off for a number of years and some notable Melbourne startups have lost their pitching virginity on the Silicon Beach!
We suggest you upload a quick one page website if you plan to pitch. This way you get maximum bang for your pitch. We recommend Strikingly, a very easy to use DIY web dev platform. No coding required.
We like to keep things short and sharp. Each pitch will be limited to 90 seconds and if we have time those looking for work or looking for a tech co-founder or devs can pitch for 30secs earch. We try and limit the pitch segment to under 45 mins, so everyone could get back to the main purpose of #msbdrinks – making connections with other Silicon Beachers.
See you at the next event.
MSB Hosting Team
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Please note we will be live streaming, videoing, photographing and audio recording at #msbdrinks and many of our other events. Please be aware that when you RSVP, you give consent to be filmed & posted on our social channels and SiliconMedia – SiliconNews, Silicon Beach TV & Silicon Beach Radio.
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