Hey Silicon Beachers Long time listener first time de-lurker @caseyjohnellis here. I'm planning on heading to the Grace for Friday drinks for the first time tomorrow night so I thought now would be a good opportunity to out myself.
First up, thanks to everyone who contributes here. Up until recently I've been in the "entrepreneur trapped in the body of a career professional" category and listening to the stories, questions, trials, successes and general banter through this channel has been hugely encouraging at key points in my journey. I firmly believe that there's a special brand of ingenuity that's unique to Australia, and to see it's expression in entrepreneurship in here is just awesome. Anyway, enough gushy-gush. Here's the headlines... - 1981 to 1987: I am another one of those folk who's first business as a kid was finding and collecting lost golf balls. - Somewhere in there as well: My second was selling a mixture of sawdust and sand to gardeners in a roadside stall (I was never much into lemonade). - 1994 to 1999: "Casey's excellent results do not, however, reflect his attitude towards his schoolwork" pretty much sums up my school career. Loved learning, hated authority. I put it down to mildly hippy parents. - 2001: Work wise I bounced around a bit before landing in an I.T. services start-up which i helped grow from 2 to 20 full timers. It was in this time I developed a keen interest in information security and cybercrime. - 2006: After getting married my wonderful and very clever missus kicked my butt to find a something in security where my interest lay. That role was with another services start-up around payments security. There I stayed before attempting unsuccessfully to leave recently and going onto a retainer. - 2008: I read 4 Hour Work Week somewhere in there and, instead of pursuing widget funded travel, I became utterly fascinated in Internet enabled start-ups and private equity. I've done a bunch of different things in that time, from import/export, outsourced website development, and a couple of web-based start-ups. - 2011: Quit the day job to freelance and work on a couple of ideas in the information security space. The ruckus begins… So yeah, that's the "Empire-state building elevator pitch". You can find out more about what I'm working on/with on my companies (currently very ugly looking) website: http://tallpoppygroup.com. Feel free to ask anything about any of our projects. I'd like to make myself available to the Silicon Beach community for questions. I've got a tonne of experience in information security, payments and payment security, cybercrime and fraud, solution architecture and the like and am very happy to serve the start-up community with this. My aim is to serve and network deeper and deeper into the start-up community with people on the same wavelength. It's a good thing. Hopefully I'll see some of you tomorrow night at the Grace! Cheers Casey @caseyjohnellis 02 8022 8351 http://caseyjohnellis.com http://tallpoppygroup.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs 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
