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I'm moving to Sydney. Start-up community?

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Hello mates, I'm moving to Sydney soon and am curious whether a start-up community exists there, and if anyone here is part of it?

Any recommendations on places to live? Thoughts on the entrepreneurship culture?

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aymeric
They call it Silicon Beach here: http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/

There are Open Coffee events, Drinks every fridays, some events every now and then (not enough in my opinion)

Lots of world-class startups were born in Australia (Remember the milk and 99designs come to my mind), you might be the next one :)

Places to live: Coogee, Manly or Bondi! (beach lifestyle, 25 to 45 minutes from the center of Sydney)

If someone else from Sydney is on HN, please say hello :)

Smerity
Another notable startup coming from Sydney is Atlassian [1]. I live near the University of Sydney (currently an undergraduate student there) and they're quite a good force in the IT industry down here as the founders do a number of speaking gigs and also support NCSS [2] (an IT camp for high school students).

The other groups to keep an eye on are programming groups (SyPy, FP-Syd and the Google events). I really should attend some of the Silicon Beach functions - I've yet to go but am really tempted =]

[1] Atlassian - http://www.atlassian.com/ [2] NCSS - http://www.ncss.edu.au/

aik
Nice - my office is located in North Sydney, so I'm not too far away. I've visited Manly a few times - it's about a 30 min ferry ride away. Can't wait for the summer!

Thanks for the link. The forum seems surprisingly active.

steerpike
Here's a bit of a roundup of tech meetups around Sydney that I found a while ago. http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/sydney-meetups-and-events-inform...

I just moved back to Sydney at the beginning of the year from Bristol in the UK and I have to say the Sydney community doesn't seem to have hit the same level of activity that the UK had which is a bit of a bugger.

If you live in Sydney you pretty much are obligated to have something to do with the harbour: sailing, surfing, living near it, watching the sunset over it from the Opera Bar. I live in Mosman so I get to travel to work in the city by ferry every day - I can certainly recommend it as a lovely way of starting and ending your day!

aik
Too bad to hear that doesn't have that much activity.

You live in Mosman? I just started renting a place in Cremorne (border of Neutral Bay), and work in North Sydney. Seems like a cool place. Will check out the meetup, thanks.

thejay
Also check out StartupDigest for regular local events http://thestartupdigest.com/

I'm on the lower north shore. In steerpike's words i'm "living near it", the views are great.