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8:38PM | Tuesday, 4 August 2015 | Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore introduced a new action plan this week that outlines what the city needs to do in order to be a “leader in the tech startup field”.
7:35PM | Monday, 27 July 2015 | Energy efficiency startup WattBlock has launched a new project in partnership with the City of Sydney which aims to drive down carbon emissions and reduce costs in the city’s residential apartment buildings.
3:00AM | Monday, 4 March 2013 | A former freelancer for Yelp has opened a co-working space in the Sydney suburb of Edgecliff, while Gold Coast-based incubator Silicon Lakes is opening its co-working space in Robina.
11:17PM | Wednesday, 21 November 2012 | The City of Sydney is inviting expressions of interest from cultural and creative enterprises to occupy two properties in William Street, as it seeks to create a new “creative cluster” in the city.
7:39PM | Thursday, 5 July 2012 | Sydney and Melbourne are to ramp up efforts to “greenify” their cityscapes with rooftop gardens and green walls, suggesting this could be an area of opportunity for start-ups.
6:30PM | Friday, 8 June 2012 | A new start-up meet-up backed by the City of Sydney has attracted more than 100 entrepreneurs and investors, with Sydney’s lord mayor flagging further start-up initiatives for the NSW capital.
4:40PM | Thursday, 12 April 2012 | Sydney and Melbourne are among the world’s top 25 start-up ecosystems, according to new findings, ranked 21st and 22nd respectively, but experts say they should be higher up the list.
3:00AM | Thursday, 15 March 2012 | Huddle Spaces, a new co-working space in central Sydney, has been launched with the promise of introducing the kind of creative prototyping of service-based ideas as is currently applied to products.
10:33PM | Wednesday, 12 October 2011 | The City of Melbourne council has defended its record of supporting retailers, despite ongoing fears of CBD small businesses being overlooked by consumers in favour of large suburban shopping centres.
