{"id":38722,"date":"2023-10-20T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/general-assembly-heads-for-brisbane-as-australias-startup-ecosystem-gets-stronger-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:58:32","slug":"general-assembly-heads-for-brisbane-as-australias-startup-ecosystem-gets-stronger-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/general-assembly-heads-for-brisbane-as-australias-startup-ecosystem-gets-stronger-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"General Assembly heads for Brisbane, as Australia\u2019s startup ecosystem gets stronger – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brisbane is the likely candidate for General Assembly\u2019s<\/a> next Australian expansion, according to Riley Batchelor, regional director for the company\u2019s Australian arm.<\/p>\n

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General Assembly, which runs a variety workshops and courses teaching digital skills, launched in Melbourne<\/a> four months ago, and has a had Sydney presence for roughly two years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe model of taking it to another city within Australia has worked pretty well,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe content has been just as popular in Melbourne as it has been in Sydney.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen we go into a new market the things we look for are a strong startup community, a healthy number of job vacancies, a good strong employment market.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo we\u2019re thinking Brisbane might be the next potential city we have a crack at.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The company\u2019s Melbourne expansion has been so successful that Batchelor says it wouldn\u2019t surprise him if Melbourne were to overtake Sydney as General Assembly\u2019s strongest Australian city.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a really strong well connected cohesive startup community here,\u201d he says of Melbourne.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn Sydney there\u2019s probably more startups, and maybe more early stage startups, but it\u2019s a little fragmented and there\u2019s lots of people doing lots of things.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was quite surprised how everyone works quite closely together down here and everyone knows each other, it\u2019s a good vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Batchelor says comparisons between cities aside, he only sees the Australian startup ecosystem getting stronger in the coming years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think we\u2019re very much in the early days of the Australian startup community,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a lot more people coming into it. We see a lot of people coming from a wide range of backgrounds, they might be lawyers or finance people, or some other sort of corporate job that they\u2019re not particularly and they\u2019ve got an idea for an app or a business.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While Batchelor says those older individuals are typical of General Assembly students, he says they\u2019re getting younger, a trend he thinks will continue.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve graduated a class of web developers and some of them want to go on to be entrepreneurs and some want to go on to get jobs as web developers, but it\u2019s probably one of the younger classes that we\u2019ve had, and that\u2019s really encouraging to see,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been involved in startups all my life so I\u2019d love to see more people leave school and become and entrepreneur rather than doing other stuff, but it\u2019s all part of the journey as well. I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s a problem, or lacking or anything but I think it\u2019s something that will continue to grow over time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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