Why did you move to Brisbane to start a startup? Are your potential customer's here?
At the risk of starting a heated discussion, my impression is that Melbourne is the capital with the most blossoming startup culture. (I'm in Bris by the way)
I would wager it's probably Sydney, but then again I don't think any Australian town is the clear winner.
Canberra had a lot of enterprise focussed software startups which didn't get much notice; but I think compared to the US equivalents, alot of Australian companies fly under the radar.
My belief is if you're starting in the Aus rather than the US it doesn't really matter which city you're in as long as it's got a reasonable feeding uni. Having worked and recruited with US and Aus staff I definitely think Australian software engineers are some of the best and typically suitably pragmatic for software startups. (Until they fully roll out the US style of generalist and masters, aka uni melbourne approach, but I guess we'll see)
Yeah I agree with there being no clear winner. I don't know of any area in Australia that has a sufficiently large cluster of startups to create a thriving startup culture.
That's why I'm curious about niko1 coming to Brisbane to start a startup. What's here that isn't elsewhere?
Recently moved to Brisbane from Canberra and starting knowtu. Looking at ilab and will make it to opencoffee sometime. Are there any good Brisbane entrepreneurship/tech groups someone could recommend? HN meetup?
Another Brisbane boy here. HN meetup would be great, since we seem to have a few locals. I can probably organise a casual venue one evening in the Valley? Maybe chip in for some drinks or dinner?
Good to know. I'll be checking that out, and if it seems worth having something HN specific (or, more particularly, HN marketed) I'll put up a post here and drop a line to those Brisbanites mentioned in this post.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 88.2 ms ] threadAt the risk of starting a heated discussion, my impression is that Melbourne is the capital with the most blossoming startup culture. (I'm in Bris by the way)
Canberra had a lot of enterprise focussed software startups which didn't get much notice; but I think compared to the US equivalents, alot of Australian companies fly under the radar.
My belief is if you're starting in the Aus rather than the US it doesn't really matter which city you're in as long as it's got a reasonable feeding uni. Having worked and recruited with US and Aus staff I definitely think Australian software engineers are some of the best and typically suitably pragmatic for software startups. (Until they fully roll out the US style of generalist and masters, aka uni melbourne approach, but I guess we'll see)
That's why I'm curious about niko1 coming to Brisbane to start a startup. What's here that isn't elsewhere?
Recently moved to Brisbane from Canberra and starting knowtu. Looking at ilab and will make it to opencoffee sometime. Are there any good Brisbane entrepreneurship/tech groups someone could recommend? HN meetup?
There are some groups on meetup.com already, like http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/