by Phil Morle | Mar 15, 2013 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Uncategorized
The Australian technology industry faces unprecedented opportunity. It can be economy driving, child inspiring, job creating, life improving and world leading, Will we come together to make it happen? Seven years ago 17 people turned up to a dinner for startups. There...
by Phil Morle | Feb 12, 2013 | Australia, Capital Raising, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Startup Finops, Uncategorized
There has been a bit of noise lately about share options in Australia and Niki and I have been chatting on Twitter about it. The summary of the problem is that if you’ve got a startup with some value and you offer options to an employee or advisor then they need...
by Phil Morle | Feb 6, 2013 | Australia, Startmate 2013, Uncategorized
Did you apply for Startmate and miss out? Perhaps you want to give a startup a go but are not quite sure how to make the move. Australian startup accelerator Startmate is calling for applications from developers and designers to take part in its Trump Cards program....
by Phil Morle | Dec 6, 2012 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Uncategorized
Update: Apparently all the lights in WA are from a bushfire. I found this amazing image of earth by NASA from space and cropped it to show Australia. I was wondering what all those lights were in Western Australia and it made me think about all the great ways...
by Phil Morle | Nov 23, 2012 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Uncategorized
Only 4.8% of Australian technology startups grow into successful, global companies whereas many more Silicon Valley (8%) and New York (6.7%) based startups reach scale, according to new research, Silicon Beach: a study of the Australian Startup Ecosystem, released...
by Phil Morle | Nov 19, 2012 | Annual Reviews, Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Uncategorized
Australia Unlimited have listed 30 Top Digital Influencers, view the full list here. Affably described as “The Startup Guys”, Pollenizer Co-founders are mentioned along side many leaders in Tech. Mick & Phil’s story of startup is one that can no...
by Phil Morle | Oct 2, 2012 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Uncategorized
I came across a list of the the Top 100 Web 2.0 Startups and this later version created for a conference that our mate Ross Dawson organised in 2008. A click through the list shows that 4 years later, 44% of the companies have a website still functioning with a tiny...
by Phil Morle | Sep 12, 2012 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Uncategorized
This was the question I put to the audience at Sydstart on Monday. Lots of people are trying, lots of progress is being made, but are we kidding ourselves. We can’t beat the Valley We can’t be bigger than China We can’t have more mobiles than...
by Phil Morle | Jul 11, 2012 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events
A key insight out of From Little Things: DNA of a Startup was the following: Startups evolve through discreet stages (discovery > validation > efficiency > scale) Startups that skip a stage are likely to fail Australian businesses manage to raise capital...
by Phil Morle | Apr 27, 2012 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events
This weekend I am judging at Startup Weekend Sydney. There are more than 120 people here and the atmosphere is electric. We have just done recruitment pitching and I have left the teams for a sleepless weekend building something new. Recently it has become clear to me...
by Phil Morle | Feb 11, 2010 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events
Australia struggles to innovate. I know this is not caused by a lack of ideas or a lack of vision because I live in a world of Australian entrepreneurs. Indeed, what this community gets done, against all odds, is extraordinary. The National Broadband Network in...
by Phil Morle | Jul 16, 2009 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Startup Science
TechNation recently called for feedback into how the Top 100 Aussie Web Startups is calculated and at the CTO meetup earlier this month we discussed some options that could improve the index. As with many things it became very clear, very quickly that defining this...
