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Tech gets mugged by political reality

Friday’s opening keynote at Startcon was a trip down memory lane. All that fresh air and optimism and Malcolm on stage, you would be forgiven for thinking it was...

Startups are our job creation engine

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The push for more effective policies that support the needs of startups must centre on the job creation potential of these high-growth tech companies, StartupAus chief executive Alex McCauley...

In 2019, we’re a banana republic

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In 1986, then Treasurer Paul Keating said that Australia risked becoming a third-rate economy – a ‘banana republic’ – if it allowed the sophisticated industrial side of the country...

StartCon explores ‘fall of tech elite’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s largest startup conference will focus on the decline of Silicon Valley and the recent widespread criticisms of some of the biggest tech players in the world. StartCon’s 2018...

StartCon and the Silicon Valley life

Posted on   |  by James Riley
When an estimated 4,000 delegates gather in Sydney next month for the nation’s largest conference devoted to the startup entrepreneur sector, they might be able to answer a question...

Chaos Monkeys and Russian trolls

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The political power building inside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook is probably already too difficult to constrain says the man who led the adtech team...

This govt ignores its own success

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government is weirdly reluctant to embrace its own success in relation to the rude health of the Australian startup sector. The collective momentum of young entrepreneurs in...

Matt Barrie is a reluctant optimist

Posted on   |  by James Riley
He won’t thank me for saying so, but Freelancer.com chief executive Matt Barrie seems remarkably chill. He has a view of the mainstream Australian economy that suggests we’re all...

StartCon readies for Sydney 2017

Posted on   |  by James Riley
By the time the StartCon exhibition and conference series closed its doors at Royal Randwick in Sydney on Sunday night it had attracted more than 3,100 visitors, cementing its...

Matt Barrie on the Aussie scene

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Pound for pound the Australian tech sector is producing better startup operators than its counterpart ecosystem in Silicon Valley, according to Freelancer.com’s acerbic CEO Matt Barrie. But that doesn’t...