Tag: Fishburners

Labor startup plan gets big tick from industry

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Labor’s proposal to spur innovation through loans to young entrepreneurs has received strong backing from the Australian startup community and technology universities, who expect the program would be oversubscribed...

Murray Hurps leaves AIIA board a year early

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Startup sector luminary and director of entrepreneurship at the University of Technology Sydney Murray Hurps has resigned from the board of the Australian Information Industry Association halfway through his...

Alan Noble on the StartupAUS origins

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The first Crossroads report, published in April 2014, contained a foreword written by Adrian Turner that started with the line “Australia is facing some tough decisions that will define...

Clover Moore on startup Sydney

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The development of a tech and innovation strategy for a city cannot be taken in isolation, according to Clover Moore, Sydney’s longest-serving Lord Mayor and a champion of the...

Co-working boost at The Capital

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The traditional model for a startup has been to find funding, find people, and then find an office space to work in. The rise of co-working spaces has turned...

Murray Hurps’ big new data gig

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An inability to access large data sets is holding back the next generation of potentially huge Australian tech companies, former Fishburners CEO Murray Hurps said. Mr Hurps, who finished...

Monster Moonhack cracks the code

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia may not be a computer science superpower right now, but its future looks bright. An Aussie kids coding organisation successfully broke a world record on Tuesday, bringing nearly 30,000...

Gladys’ $35m new tech startup hub

Posted on   |  by James Riley
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her government’s $35 million investment in a Sydney Startup Hub in the central business district is the first of several such hubs that will...