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Could you tell us a little about what the startup and hacker cultures are like over there? How does it compate to what you know of the US / SV and somewhere sma

Could you tell us a little about what the startup and hacker cultures are like over there? How does it compate to what you know of the US / SV and somewhere smaller like NZ. I'm over the ditch in Auckland currently but I spent a year living in South Yarra and even met my wife there.

hoochsta 16y ago
i'm sitting on my bed in south yarra now!
bootload 16y ago
"... Could you tell us a little about what the startup and hacker cultures are like over there? ..." Start at http://thehive.org.au/category/melbourne/ http://thehive.org.au/category/melbourne/ (entrepreneurs) then try http://groups.google.com/group/connected-community-hackerspace http://groups.google.com/group/connected-community-hackerspa... (hacker spaces, software/hardware) then try (late night hacking) at http://twitter.com/melnightowls http://twitter.com/melnightowls or day time hacking at http://www.inspire9.com.au/ http://www.inspire9.com.au/ then maybe a weekly morning meeting of (nerds/hackers/media) at SocialMelbourne http://twitter.com/socialmelb http://twitter.com/socialmelb Thats just off the top of my head. Also try looking through my melbourne twit list ~ http://twitter.com/#/list/bootload/melbourne http://twitter.com/#/list/bootload/melbourne There is a cross pollination of hackers/devs/design activity at http://trampolineday.com/ http://trampolineday.com/ "... How does it compate to what you know of the US / SV and somewhere smaller like NZ. ..." SV is the startup hub either side of the Tasman. I haven't been to NZ before, but the business culture (stale, crusty & risk adverse) would be similar. Like NZ lots of smart people, starved of YC type Angel investment advice. One difference I'm noticing is the quality and frequency of startups with direct US/YC/SV experience is increasing. Melbourne is pretty busy :)

hoochsta 16y ago

i'm sitting on my bed in south yarra now!

bootload 16y ago

"... Could you tell us a little about what the startup and hacker cultures are like over there? ..." Start at http://thehive.org.au/category/melbourne/ http://thehive.org.au/category/melbourne/ (entrepreneurs) then try http://groups.google.com/group/connected-community-hackerspace http://groups.google.com/group/connected-community-hackerspa... (hacker spaces, software/hardware) then try (late night hacking) at http://twitter.com/melnightowls http://twitter.com/melnightowls or day time hacking at http://www.inspire9.com.au/ http://www.inspire9.com.au/ then maybe a weekly morning meeting of (nerds/hackers/media) at SocialMelbourne http://twitter.com/socialmelb http://twitter.com/socialmelb Thats just off the top of my head. Also try looking through my melbourne twit list ~ http://twitter.com/#/list/bootload/melbourne http://twitter.com/#/list/bootload/melbourne There is a cross pollination of hackers/devs/design activity at http://trampolineday.com/ http://trampolineday.com/ "... How does it compate to what you know of the US / SV and somewhere smaller like NZ. ..." SV is the startup hub either side of the Tasman. I haven't been to NZ before, but the business culture (stale, crusty & risk adverse) would be similar. Like NZ lots of smart people, starved of YC type Angel investment advice. One difference I'm noticing is the quality and frequency of startups with direct US/YC/SV experience is increasing. Melbourne is pretty busy :)