11 Feb 2006 09:43 pm
About
Hi! I’m Martin Wells, an aussie now living in the valley.
I started my computer career at age twelve coding on a Tandy Microcomputer. At fifteen I started my first company selling video games I’d coded myself via mail order. It wasn’t much of a success, but I made a few thousands dollars and bought better hardware (this was to be a recurring theme).
After attending Kuringai High on Sydney’s North Shore, I graduated from the Control Data Institute. I then went on to a career as a software developer with Southern Cross, then consulting firm Aspect Computing, before joining publisher Williams Collins.
In 1994, I founded one of Australia’s first ISPs (originally on the APANA network), which was later to become Dot Communications, a successful provider of wholesale service delivery software for telcos. Dot’s Viper software platform is being used to supply hundreds of thousands of end-user services by more than 100 ISPs.
In 2005, I founded Tangler.
I also published a book (Premier Press 2004) based on work I had been doing on entertainment software for mobile phones.
I’m also the organiser of Dinner 2.0, a regular mixer event for local Sydney entrepreneurs and the people who can help them, as well as STIRR Sydney, part of the Silicon Valley STIRR network.
I also guest blog for The Age and Anthill (when they let me).
I’m always keen to talk about opportunities and exchange ideas, so feel free to email me at [marty] /at/ [tangler.com].