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Analysis, Featured, Startups - Friday, May 18, 2012 13:47 - 22 Comments
Australia’s IT startup scene: Blooming, not dying
analysis This morning the Sydney Morning Herald published a series of articles claiming that Australia’s technology startup ecosystem is unable to support local entrepreneurs, causing them to increasingly head to the US in search of the financial backing they are unable to attract in Australia. The only problem is, the evidence doesn’t support this assertion.
If there is one thing which Australians love, it is to have a big fat whinge about why they can’t access the same goods and services locally that residents of larger first-world countries such as the United States can. In the nation’s technology sector, this kind of complaint is an ongoing theme with respect to a number of disparate issues. From the inflated cost of gadgets, software and video games locally to the availability of high-speed broadband, from the delayed launches to geo-IP-blocked content, Australians simply love to criticise the powers for be for not giving them everything the Americans have, and we love to do it loudly and proudly.
Nothing illustrates this trend more than a series of articles published by the Sydney Morning Herald this morning on the topic of technology entrepreneurship in Australia. Headlined by the case of high-profile and glamorous young entrepreneur Nikki Durkin, who recently joined the Y Combinator technology startup incubator program in the US after her Australia-based startup 99dresses shut down following financial issues and a need to re-work its business model, the SMH’s articles paint a story of doom and gloom.








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