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Brisbane/Queensland has suddenly seen a large increase in the local startup community. Groups like Silicon Beach and The Lean Startup have been a big part of i
by djtidau 14y ago
Brisbane/Queensland has suddenly seen a large increase in the local startup community. Groups like Silicon Beach and The Lean Startup have been a big part of it, especially with getting the word out on Microsoft's offering via its newly opened Innovation Centre initiative.
Steve Baxter (Founder of PIPE networks) has also come forward as a big player, opening up River City Labs, a co-working space for startups passing their application criteria. He has committed a large sum of money to all this and there is even talk of a Y-Combinator style seed investment strategy coming out of it all.
It is still early days but there has been A LOT of movement in this space locally and I personally am excited about what is ahead.
- taligent 14y agoThere's been the same sort of growth in seed incubators in Melbourne as well. The problem is that they are all following the same playbook: Get an Idea (Startup Weekend) -> Build Prototype (Seed) -> Head Over To Silicon Valley -> Sell/Fail. I fail to see how that is in any way good for anybody other than the investors.
- coopdog 14y agoDo you have any more information on Melbourne incubators? I know of AngelCube, is there a 'best' startup community? I'm still yet to even find a good online forum for startups (nothing like news.ycombinator even) How do they sell/fail? You mean, no one wants to buy Australian startups because they're usually just not very good?