{"id":35463,"date":"2023-10-20T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/sheng-yeo-with-joseph-glanville-and-alexander-sharp-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:38:45","slug":"sheng-yeo-with-joseph-glanville-and-alexander-sharp-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/sheng-yeo-with-joseph-glanville-and-alexander-sharp-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheng Yeo &#8211; with Joseph Glanville and Alexander Sharp &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sheng-yeo.jpg\" alt=\"Sheng Yeo\" title=\"Sheng Yeo\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17740\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sheng-yeo.jpg\" alt=\"Sheng Yeo\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17741\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/joseph-glanville.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17742\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/alexander-sharp.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" \/>Names: <\/strong>Joseph Glanville, Alexander Sharp and Sheng Yeo <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/orionvm.com.au\/\" title=\"OrionVM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OrionVM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ages:<\/strong> 19, 20 and 22<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> NSW<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-4274\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ability to spot a gap in the market, great technical skills and sheer hard work has made OrionVM one of Australia\u2019s leading tech start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As with many businesses, frustration was the key. Wanting to create a new sort of search engine, they sound that the cloud computing storage they wanted to use was unsuitable.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Realising that others may want a similar solution, they switched their focus to the cloud, working out of Yeo\u2019s dorm room at the University of Technology Sydney and raising money from friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barely 18 months on, they now have what they claim is the world\u2019s fastest storage engine for cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The business\u2019 potential is strong \u2013 a number of clients have come on board and a $1 million funding round is in the offing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the founders haven\u2019t been swept up by the euphoria \u2013 not only do they lend their time to start-up events such as the Sydney Hackathon, they man the customer service lines themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really hard at the beginning, but we provide really good service,\u201d says Yeo.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we get a call or an email from a client, it gets replied to in under five minutes. We\u2019ve built up a good reputation over time, it wasn\u2019t easy at first, but we got good references from our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo with your dream, don\u2019t listen too much to the people who say you can\u2019t do it, go with your dream and go hard at it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Names: Joseph Glanville, Alexander Sharp and Sheng Yeo Business name: OrionVM Ages: 19, 20 and 22 State: NSW \u00a0 The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}