{"id":36589,"date":"2023-10-20T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/start-up-australia-the-movement-thats-looking-to-revamp-a-nation-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:44:59","slug":"start-up-australia-the-movement-thats-looking-to-revamp-a-nation-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/start-up-australia-the-movement-thats-looking-to-revamp-a-nation-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-up Australia: The movement that\u2019s looking to revamp a nation &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/l_ourpatch-445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_ourpatch-445\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">The Australian technology industry faces unprecedented  opportunity. It can be economy driving,&nbsp;child inspiring,&nbsp;job creating,  life improving and world leading, Will we come together to make it  happen?<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seven years ago 17 people turned up to a dinner for startups. There  were more people around, but not many and not many startups, not many  events, not much going on.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since then, a group of people have invested significant time, money  and energy forming a foundation of the industry and creating the  momentum we have today. We have almost daily events, hundreds of  startups, thousands of people, and millions being invested. That\u2019s  something to be proud, and something to build on.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to step up our game.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On March 13 and 14 of 2013, about 50 people came together in Sydney  to work out where we can go and how do we get there. It was maybe 10% of  the leaders of the industry but true to the startup principles, you  can\u2019t wait for everything to be in order before starting \u2013 just start.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The goal was wonderfully ambitious:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create 20% of Australia\u2019s GDP by 2033.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The steps to get there equally audacious:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a nation of coders.<\/li>\n<li>Create a system of education and sharing startup information and tools.<\/li>\n<li>Create a coordinated group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s that last one which is key for me. All people in the room have  full time jobs\/startups and for us to have any chance of getting the  goals we need some serious strength. They need to pull everyone  together, hold it together for 2 years, drive it forward and be the  lightning rod of advocacy with media, government and corporate. My view  is that it needs a full time team of a leader and a coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m prepared to support this with time, money and commitment to make sure we have the best chance of making this happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What can you do?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 13px;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23StartupAus&amp;src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Use the hashtag #startupAUS when talking about the industry<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Commit to it and support it when the time comes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get involved in changing the national curriculum to support more engineers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian technology industry faces unprecedented opportunity. It can be economy driving,&nbsp;child inspiring,&nbsp;job creating, life improving and world leading, Will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62087,"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\/36589"}],"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=36589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}