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#2You tell 'em Barrie.
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#3Surely this guy doesn't think the answer is to vote in the liberals who will shut down the fibre to the home goal of the NBN? Is that really a good way to advance Australia's startups?
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#4So very true... Australia desperately needs a startup scene for stuff other than the resources industry.
Having said that - the LinkedIn article does not actually say much about what Startup Australia actually is. A google search brought me to this: http://www.startup-australia.org/ . The first thing that hit my eyes was a large advert asking if I want to date mature women.... seriously, get some class! Do you really need to fund this with cringeworthy advertising?
The rest of the site is underwhelming, maybe great startup some web design company could take a shot at making it look good.
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#5So very true... Australia desperately needs a startup scene for stuff other than the resources industry. Having said that - the LinkedIn article does not actually say much about what Startup Australia actually is. A google search brought me to this: http://www.startup-australia.org/ . The first thing that hit my eyes was a large advert asking if I want to date mature women.... seriously, get some class! Do you really…
That's not the site. The industry action group was formed over the last two days at a design forum that consisted of entrepreneurs, startups, venture capitalists, educators and so forth.
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#6So very true... Australia desperately needs a startup scene for stuff other than the resources industry. Having said that - the LinkedIn article does not actually say much about what Startup Australia actually is. A google search brought me to this: http://www.startup-australia.org/ . The first thing that hit my eyes was a large advert asking if I want to date mature women.... seriously, get some class! Do you really…
Alex,
I think startup-australia.org is completely different entity from what Matt is talking about
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#7So very true... Australia desperately needs a startup scene for stuff other than the resources industry. Having said that - the LinkedIn article does not actually say much about what Startup Australia actually is. A google search brought me to this: http://www.startup-australia.org/ . The first thing that hit my eyes was a large advert asking if I want to date mature women.... seriously, get some class! Do you really…
The temporary site for the group can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/siliconbeachproject/
It includes access to the data used during the workshop
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#8So very true... Australia desperately needs a startup scene for stuff other than the resources industry. Having said that - the LinkedIn article does not actually say much about what Startup Australia actually is. A google search brought me to this: http://www.startup-australia.org/ . The first thing that hit my eyes was a large advert asking if I want to date mature women.... seriously, get some class! Do you really…
Alex, I think startup-australia.org is completely different entity from what Matt is talking about
Oh. Thank goodness. But what is all this about then, is there anything available now beyond the Linkedin post?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alex, I think startup-australia.org is completely different entity from what Matt is talking about
Oh. Thank goodness. But what is all this about then, is there anything available now beyond the Linkedin post?
https://sites.google.com/site/siliconbeachproject/
More is on the way
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#10Surely this guy doesn't think the answer is to vote in the liberals who will shut down the fibre to the home goal of the NBN? Is that really a good way to advance Australia's startups?
That's besides the point. FTTH is overkill and is absolutely not a requirement to build a technology industry.
How is fibre going to a small town like Burnie in the middle of Tasmania going to encourage the creation of technology startups when its users are going to be technologically uneducated in the first place? What will most likely happen is all that bandwidth (paid by taxpayers) will most likely be used for Torrenting music, warez, movies and porn.
As a pragmatist, the NBN rollout should have been targeted firstly for areas of high concentration of startup activity. That way, users most likely to benefit and create wealth from the increase of bandwidth will have first dibs that will eventually trickle down to the rest of the system. Unfortunately, for most short-sighted politicians, the main agenda of the NBN is to buy votes from rural and marginal electorates.