By popular demand, we're inviting Melbourne's Y Combinator/Hackernews devotees to come together for a lazy Sunday afternoon of sunshine & startup talk.
Tom & Fenn, alumni of the Winter 09 Y Combinator program will be there. If you're considering applying to YC, either for the upcoming Winter 10 cycle, or in a future round, this is your chance to talk to Melbourne's only YC startup about their experiences and seek their advice.
But you needn't be a YC aspirant to attend, anyone who procrastinates with obsessive re-reads of PG essays and eloquent dissections Michael Arrington's character is encouraged to come along, as is anyone who manages to avoid such distractions in the pursuit of startup success.
Get along and help make Melbourne the startup hub we know it should be!
Looking forward to it. Whenever someone's brought up the idea on here previously there's been a fair bit of interest, so hopefully we get a decent turnout.
Actually, I was referring to people from Adelaide, meeting up in Adelaide. My mistake. There are very few startup related events, and it would be good to meet some fellow HNers.
Yeah I've been to a couple of recent presentations - am part of it on Facebook. There are a couple of characters, but most attendees seem to either be aspiring life coaches or business parasites. I've yet to meet a programmer (at least one who knew what he was talking about).
I don't feel qualified to answer your question, but seeing as nobody else is...
Melbourne has a lot of technology meet-ups. Twitter meetups happen at least monthly, and there are also mobile tech meetups, social media meetups, The Hive for entrepreneurial talks and the like, and regular meetups for [programming language of your choice]. Sydney has a lot of similar things happening, but I'm not as familiar with the scene as I'm not there.
In terms of startup scenes we have a long way to go to match the US. Sydney and Melbourne have a friendly rivalry going -- Sydney likes to think they're more Silicon Valley-like, and Melbourne beg to differ ;) Both have good, albeit small, groups of enthusiastic hackers trying to create a tighter-knit startup culture.
This Melbourne meetup is one of the things we're doing here to try and bring everyone together and get more of a community happening.
One of the other things everyone mentions is how much harder it is to get VC funding in Aus, which is one of the reasons the startup culture is a little stifled.
By popular demand, we're inviting Melbourne's Y Combinator/Hackernews devotees to come together for a lazy Sunday afternoon of sunshine & startup talk.
Tom & Fenn, alumni of the Winter 09 Y Combinator program will be there. If you're considering applying to YC, either for the upcoming Winter 10 cycle, or in a future round, this is your chance to talk to Melbourne's only YC startup about their experiences and seek their advice.
But you needn't be a YC aspirant to attend, anyone who procrastinates with obsessive re-reads of PG essays and eloquent dissections Michael Arrington's character is encouraged to come along, as is anyone who manages to avoid such distractions in the pursuit of startup success.
Get along and help make Melbourne the startup hub we know it should be!
Details:
3pm, Sunday, October 4th
The Order of Melbourne - Rooftop
401 Swanston St Melb