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Melbourne Australia Hackernews/YC Meetup, this Sun 4th Oct
- tomhoward 17y agoFor those not on Facebook... By popular demand, we're inviting Melbourne's Y Combinator/Hackernews devotees to come together for a lazy Sunday afternoon of sunshine & startup talk. Tom & Fenn, alumni of the Winter 09 Y Combinator program will be there. If you're considering applying to YC, either for the upcoming Winter 10 cycle, or in a future round, this is your chance to talk to Melbourne's only YC startup about their experiences and seek their advice. But you needn't be a YC aspirant to attend, anyone who procrastinates with obsessive re-reads of PG essays and eloquent dissections Michael Arrington's character is encouraged to come along, as is anyone who manages to avoid such distractions in the pursuit of startup success. Get along and help make Melbourne the startup hub we know it should be! Details: 3pm, Sunday, October 4th The Order of Melbourne - Rooftop 401 Swanston St Melb
- KiwiNige 17y agoAlso for us not on Facebooks; can you give us the time and location?
- tomhoward 17y agoOops sorry, 3pm, Sunday, October 4th The Order of Melbourne - Rooftop 401 Swanston St Melb
- gord 17y agocool.. like a real hackers conference.. you have to engage in social engineering and pick a lock to gain access to the rooftop? oh, you mean the Rooftop on Swanston.. um, ok :]
- tomhoward 17y agoThe line breaks didn't help me much there... It's at The Order of Melbourne, at 401 Swanston St, on the rooftop level
- adsyoung 17y agoSunshine? Gotta love that entrepreneurial optimism there Tom!
- joshsharp 17y agoLooking forward to it. Whenever someone's brought up the idea on here previously there's been a fair bit of interest, so hopefully we get a decent turnout.
- jwilliams 17y agoLooks like people will be tweeting with the hashtag #ycmelb http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23ycmelb http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23ycmelb Thanks Tom et al.
- jwilliams 17y agoPlus the awesome follows of @tomhoward and @ycmelb naturally.
- mahmud 17y agoBooo! A friendly troll on behalf of NSW :-D
- nedwin 17y agoLooking forward to meeting more of Melbourne's web/tech startups.
- dschobel 17y agoA bit off topic but I'll ask hoping to take advantage of all of the Aussie HNers who will surely drop by--- How are the startup scenes in Melbourne and Sydney? Are they startup up friendly cities? Is the technology meet-up phenomenon present there as it is in the States? (All this talk of sunshine has rekindled my desire to get out of Chicago before winter comes...)
- joshsharp 17y agoI don't feel qualified to answer your question, but seeing as nobody else is... Melbourne has a lot of technology meet-ups. Twitter meetups happen at least monthly, and there are also mobile tech meetups, social media meetups, The Hive for entrepreneurial talks and the like, and regular meetups for [programming language of your choice]. Sydney has a lot of similar things happening, but I'm not as familiar with the scene as I'm not there. In terms of startup scenes we have a long way to go to match the US. Sydney and Melbourne have a friendly rivalry going -- Sydney likes to think they're more Silicon Valley-like, and Melbourne beg to differ ;) Both have good, albeit small, groups of enthusiastic hackers trying to create a tighter-knit startup culture. This Melbourne meetup is one of the things we're doing here to try and bring everyone together and get more of a community happening. One of the other things everyone mentions is how much harder it is to get VC funding in Aus, which is one of the reasons the startup culture is a little stifled.
- jwilliams 17y agoProbably also worth mentioning Melbourne Jelly, which is a great regular event: http://wiki.workatjelly.com/JellyInMelbourne http://wiki.workatjelly.com/JellyInMelbourne
- djonesx 17y agoCan anyone point me in the direction of Sydney meet ups? Also how do I keep in the loop for Melbourne ones as I am there for work quite often. Hope the Melbourne meet-up goes well!
- jay_kyburz 17y agoAny interest in a Canberra meeting?
- pm 17y agoSurprised Adelaide hasn't turned up (must be all the serial killers). Any folks interested in meeting up at some point?
- nopassrecover 17y agoHeh short notice to fly from Adelaide.
- pm 17y agoActually, I was referring to people from Adelaide, meeting up in Adelaide. My mistake. There are very few startup related events, and it would be good to meet some fellow HNers.
- nopassrecover 17y agoYeah not sure about HNers but there is The Startup Club.
- pm 17y agoYeah I've been to a couple of recent presentations - am part of it on Facebook. There are a couple of characters, but most attendees seem to either be aspiring life coaches or business parasites. I've yet to meet a programmer (at least one who knew what he was talking about).
- nopassrecover 17y agoYeah similar experience, hence haven't really been back.
- pm 17y agoHence, why I made the original suggestion - anyone else we can coax into a meet up?
- gstar 17y agoMelbourne is brilliant. With all the banking (and money) in Melbourne, wouldn't it be the logical place for the startup ecosystem to thrive in Australia? I really hope it does - if I ever go back to Australia, Melbourne is where I'd probably settle. It's one of my very favourite cities.