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Startup America, Startup Britain - why no Startup Australia?

6 points by Finntastic 16y ago

hugh3 16y ago
I would have upvoted this story, if it hadn't been for the annoying "darken screen and ask for your email address" trick. Perhaps part of the answer to the question posed by the title is "because the Australian startup community is too dominated by scammy-looking weirdoes trying to sell you "101 tips on somethingorother""
- onan_barbarian 16y ago
  > because the Australian startup community is too dominated by scammy-looking weirdoes trying to sell you "101 tips on somethingorother" Correct! Including this "Finntastic" guy, who sits around submitting links to these inane stories. One of our engineers was just bitching about the ridiculous number of people in Australia who are 'trying to help' the startup community from the outside.
andrewstuart 16y ago
Because massively successful Australian startups can be counted on one hand.
- Finntastic 16y ago
  Thanks for the positivity guys! Just a few points - we report on and work closely with the start-up community in Australia. To us, there is no 'outside', only collaboration and support. Secondly, nothing is being sold on our site. All the information is free and doesn't require any sign-up. If you don't want to read it, fine, but many people find the info we publish very helpful. I'm sorry you don't, but I'm not going to force you to read or buy anything. Thirdly, Andrewstuart, constructive point, but if you've ever been on Freelancer.com, watched TV or a movie on Fox or read a newspaper any time recently, there's a good chance you would've seen the work of 'massively successful' Australian entrepreneurs. Fourthly, how about discussing the point and the issue in hand, rather than pointless backbiting, eh? I know a lot of Australians look at this site and I'm sure they'd love to get the perspective of a country with a more switched-on start-up culture.
  - neckbeard 16y ago
    Freelancer? You mean the Swedish site (GetAFreelancer) that was bought by some Australians? Sure, it has been cleaned up a bunch, but doesn't seem like a massive entrepreneurial success (other than as a vehicle for self-promotion).
    - Finntastic 16y ago
      Suppose that depends on your definition of entrepreneurialism. Raising $40m in funding, adding 2 million customers in a year and dominating a niche is pretty entrepreneurial behaviour to me. But then you could define that strictly by who founded the company, came up with the original idea etc. It's an interesting debate. Going by the second, stricter, definition of entrepreneur, how would you class Trump Organization heir Donald Trump? Or, if you believe a couple of Olympic rowers, Mark Zuckerberg for that matter? They are still both entrepreneurs to me. So is Matt Barrie. Good on 'em all, I say.
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6 points by Finntastic 16y ago

hugh3 16y ago

I would have upvoted this story, if it hadn't been for the annoying "darken screen and ask for your email address" trick. Perhaps part of the answer to the question posed by the title is "because the Australian startup community is too dominated by scammy-looking weirdoes trying to sell you "101 tips on somethingorother""

onan_barbarian 16y ago
> because the Australian startup community is too dominated by scammy-looking weirdoes trying to sell you "101 tips on somethingorother" Correct! Including this "Finntastic" guy, who sits around submitting links to these inane stories. One of our engineers was just bitching about the ridiculous number of people in Australia who are 'trying to help' the startup community from the outside.

andrewstuart 16y ago

Because massively successful Australian startups can be counted on one hand.

Finntastic 16y ago
Thanks for the positivity guys! Just a few points - we report on and work closely with the start-up community in Australia. To us, there is no 'outside', only collaboration and support. Secondly, nothing is being sold on our site. All the information is free and doesn't require any sign-up. If you don't want to read it, fine, but many people find the info we publish very helpful. I'm sorry you don't, but I'm not going to force you to read or buy anything. Thirdly, Andrewstuart, constructive point, but if you've ever been on Freelancer.com, watched TV or a movie on Fox or read a newspaper any time recently, there's a good chance you would've seen the work of 'massively successful' Australian entrepreneurs. Fourthly, how about discussing the point and the issue in hand, rather than pointless backbiting, eh? I know a lot of Australians look at this site and I'm sure they'd love to get the perspective of a country with a more switched-on start-up culture.
- neckbeard 16y ago
  Freelancer? You mean the Swedish site (GetAFreelancer) that was bought by some Australians? Sure, it has been cleaned up a bunch, but doesn't seem like a massive entrepreneurial success (other than as a vehicle for self-promotion).
  - Finntastic 16y ago
    Suppose that depends on your definition of entrepreneurialism. Raising $40m in funding, adding 2 million customers in a year and dominating a niche is pretty entrepreneurial behaviour to me. But then you could define that strictly by who founded the company, came up with the original idea etc. It's an interesting debate. Going by the second, stricter, definition of entrepreneur, how would you class Trump Organization heir Donald Trump? Or, if you believe a couple of Olympic rowers, Mark Zuckerberg for that matter? They are still both entrepreneurs to me. So is Matt Barrie. Good on 'em all, I say.

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