Is Australia the next upcoming tech startup hotspot to watch?
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#2"if there are two startups, one in Australia and one in the USA, both targeting the USA market, which do you think is going to win?”
99Designs vs. Crowdspring, http://www.google.com/trends/?q=crowdspring,+99designs&c..., leads me to believe that 99Designs is more popular, even though it was also later to market.
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#3There are some serious problem with the immigration laws in Australia that would make such ecosystem very fragile.
For example, we tried to hire a remote friend to move inland and work with us - and he is over qualified - yet because he's over 30, his chances of making it after 2 years of struggle with immigration are next to none.
So as long as this happen, startups will be dead in the water. Australia has a lot of smart people, but that's not enough. The US west coast attracts all the smarts and doesn't block them in.
Re: Is Australia the next upcoming tech startup hotspot to watch?
#4There are some serious problem with the immigration laws in Australia that would make such ecosystem very fragile. For example, we tried to hire a remote friend to move inland and work with us - and he is over qualified - yet because he's over 30, his chances of making it after 2 years of struggle with immigration are next to none. So as long as this happen, startups will be dead in the water. Australia has a lot of…
Keyle -
As someone who's just on the cusp of 30 and is actively planning a move down under, do you mind expounding a little further on what happened? I'd love to avoid the same pitfall if possible.
Re: Is Australia the next upcoming tech startup hotspot to watch?
#5There are some serious problem with the immigration laws in Australia that would make such ecosystem very fragile. For example, we tried to hire a remote friend to move inland and work with us - and he is over qualified - yet because he's over 30, his chances of making it after 2 years of struggle with immigration are next to none. So as long as this happen, startups will be dead in the water. Australia has a lot of…
Can you describe the problems you've seen? Wife and I were over 30 when we moved to AU from the US. Certainly quite a bit of paperwork, but wasn't all that tough in reality.
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#6There are some serious problem with the immigration laws in Australia that would make such ecosystem very fragile. For example, we tried to hire a remote friend to move inland and work with us - and he is over qualified - yet because he's over 30, his chances of making it after 2 years of struggle with immigration are next to none. So as long as this happen, startups will be dead in the water. Australia has a lot of…
... and?
Trouble immigrating or getting work visas when over 30 is rife across Europe, and as for migrating to the US, we're all pretty well aware of just how difficult it is, skills or otherwise. It's really not all that different here to other western nations, though you do have a point about the 'critical mass' of Silicon Valley.
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#7Original page on Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Is-Australia-becoming-a-hot-place-to-do...
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#8There are some serious problem with the immigration laws in Australia that would make such ecosystem very fragile. For example, we tried to hire a remote friend to move inland and work with us - and he is over qualified - yet because he's over 30, his chances of making it after 2 years of struggle with immigration are next to none. So as long as this happen, startups will be dead in the water. Australia has a lot of…
Keyle - As someone who's just on the cusp of 30 and is actively planning a move down under, do you mind expounding a little further on what happened? I'd love to avoid the same pitfall if possible.
It looks like Australia uses a point system to determine visa eligibility.
http://www.visabureau.com/australia/immigration-points-test....
For example, you get points for age. Applicants who are 25-32 years old get 30 points. As you get older, you get fewer points. Applicants who are older than 45 get 0 points.
Since you need at least 65 points for a visa, it seems difficult once you are over the age of 45.
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#9There's been a long history of Australian inventors leaving Australia to get backing in Europe or the US.
Hopefully things are changing for the better: E.g. Atlassian - http://www.theage.com.au/small-business/entrepreneur/100m-so...
99designs - http://www.theage.com.au/small-business/managing/blogs/enter...
Re: Is Australia the next upcoming tech startup hotspot to watch?
#10I wish it wasn't the case, but based on recent HN discussion[1] .au has a number of issues to overcome (esp. re: dispersal of equity to founders)