One of our goals in publishing FLT is to encourage founders to contribute — agree, disagree, expand on topics, share stories and tell us what we could be doing better to help foster the local tech startup community.

It’s still early days, so there hasn’t been a huge amount of community interaction yet, but we think it’s worth taking a moment to recognise the members of our community who’ve gotten involved early, thank them and profile what they do.

Our five most active commenters so far

Matthew Ho

Matthew always seems to be at every meetup, pitch contest and hack in both Sydney and Melbourne these days. Founder of mobile language tuition startup Native Tongue, when Matt was profiled on FLT he had some helpful advice on app store optimisation and he’s been our most active commenter and retweeter since we launched. He also runs a mobile marketing meetup for app developers. Thanks Matt!
Matthew Ho is @inspiredworlds on Twitter.

Jim May

Disclosure: Jim and I work together at The New Agency, of which I’m a co-founder.
By day, Jim May is a project director for other people’s startup projects, but when his kids are in bed, he becomes a co-founder of Sportaroo, a new platform to help sporting clubs raise funds from their members. Jim has been an active commenter on FLT stories and on Twitter too. Thanks Jim!
Follow Jim at @jim_may

Matto Rochford

Matt is a multi-talented member of the FLT community, including advertising, copywriting, technical writing, and t-shirt designing in his resume. He’s also VP of marketing for high-speed data switch startup Zeptonics, and he had some useful advice for FLT readers on how to prepare for a competitive pitch event after taking away the big prize at this year’s Tech23.
Thanks Matto!
Follow Matto at @mattorochford

Jimmy Lee

Jimmy Lee is a mobile app dev and co-founder of Chillwith.me, who had some interesting insights on reaching out to restaurant owners in our profile of the business. Jimmy’s since been a commenter and re-tweeter, and several readers have mentioned he’s put them onto FLT.
Thanks Jimmy!
Follow Jimmy at  @jimmyready

Alfred, Bec and Peter at Optus Innov8

Alfred Lo, Rebecca Hay and Peter Huynh have been busy managing a small but growing investment in the local startup community, directly with investment in startups, and indirectly through sponsorship of Startup Weekends, hack meetups, Fishburners, and more. Better still, they retweet our stories more than just about anybody else, helping us grow our readership.
Thanks to the team from Optus Innov8!
Follow @OptusInnov8

Niki Scevak

Niki’s fast becoming the best-connected man in Australian tech startup funding, as founder of three-year old incubator program Startmate and co-founder of brand-new early-stage tech VC fund Blackbird Ventures. Niki’s been very helpful with insights into how investors think and how to relate to them as a startup founder. He’s also helped FLT grow by giving us ’embedded’ status on the Startmate 2013 program, and we’re really looking forward to Zach’ reporting from Silicon Valley next year, following the startups in the program on their incubation journey.
Thanks Niki!
Follow @NikiScevak

Mark Grieg

Mark Greig is just one of the leadership team at Pollenizer who’ve been busy incubating FLT as they would any of their early-stage startup ventures. Helping out FLT is just one thing he should be doing, along with Phil Morle, Tony Faure and Mick Liubinskas, right?

But when we started FLT we imagined that many experienced industry leaders would share with us their expert knowledge on all the things lean startup founders typically don’t know about, including government policy and grant schemes, taxation and company law. So far, Mark’s been one of the few people to step up and help with that. So thanks Mark, we look forward to drawing more good stuff out of you soon!
Follow Mark at @Mark_Greig

And also…

We’d also like to thank Michael Garrard and Casey Ellis for some great retweets and opinions on Twitter.

What about me?

Want your share in the love beaming out from FLT in 2013? Simple! Share our stories with your connections, comment on our stories, drop us an email with a story idea or suggestion on how we could do better. And when we call you; trust us, open up, tell us what’s really going on for you, and help another startup founder on their journey.

Because that’s what FLT’s here to do.