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From Brisbane, Queensland here and it's a similar story here. The company I work for is causing ripples in the Australian pond but as a whole the Australian tec
by DigitalSea 13y ago
From Brisbane, Queensland here and it's a similar story here. The company I work for is causing ripples in the Australian pond but as a whole the Australian tech scene is way behind that of the states and other parts of the world due to our tight regulations, expensive Internet connections and slow Internet connection speeds.
For every successful Australian company I can think of, there are thousands not so lucky. Atlassian and Envato are the only two companies I can think of off of the top of my head who have had major success spawning web based businesses in a country as small and somewhat lacking as Australia as Australia is. Melbourne and Sydney are definitely two locations you're most likely to start a successful business in. Good to see Pin tackling payments because in Australia you have two options: Paypal or a propriety expensive bank solution with horrible API.
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- jusben1369 13y agoBig Commerce?
- joonix 13y agoBigcommerce moved to the US (Austin), just as almost every successful tech company (and tech individual) out of Australia ends up doing. You can't blame Australia too much for that. It's a tiny market, and the US is an abnormally large one. It's logical.
- jusben1369 13y agoDid they really move though? My understanding are both co-CEO's are still in Sydney. I understand they opened a major office in the US but what growing Aussie company wouldn't?
- joonix 13y agoThat's possible, I'm just going by what someone at the company told me. Haven't looked into it further.
- damncabbage 13y agoI work at Bigcommerce. The development, QA, design and product teams are here in Australia; the sales, support and marketing teams are in Austin. (There is some mixing, eg. a few devs in Austin, a few support guys here.)