{"id":40380,"date":"2023-10-20T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/student-rooms-startupsmart-2\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:07:47","slug":"student-rooms-startupsmart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/student-rooms-startupsmart-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Rooms – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
Founders:<\/span><\/strong> Glen Vollebregt<\/div>\n
Revenue:<\/span><\/strong> $683,174<\/div>\n
Started:<\/span><\/strong> 2010<\/div>\n
Head Office:<\/span><\/strong> South Australia<\/div>\n
Employees:<\/span><\/strong> 5<\/div>\n
Industry:<\/span><\/strong> Property and business services<\/div>\n
Website:<\/span><\/strong> www.studentrooms.com.au<\/a><\/div>\n

There\u2019s a large market in Australia for servicing the accommodation needs of international students. With so many pouring into major cities, and from Australia\u2019s own regional areas, inner-city apartment builders have thrived.<\/p>\n

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But Glen Vollebregt of Student Rooms identified a key problem \u2013 they were always expensive and quite small. To counter the trend, he\u2019s set up a series of spacious accommodation locations on Adelaide\u2019s city fringe.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re fully furnished, but best of all, he argues \u2013 they have space.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRather than living in a squeezy city apartment that many student accommodation options offer \u2013 ‘Housemates’ at Student Rooms get large rooms, fully furnished, with all the bills included \u2013 as well as Telstra internet, a gardener and a regular cleaner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cStudent Rooms locations are city fringe and are about half the cost of city-based student accommodation options \u2013 for twice the space!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vollebregt spent five years working in the university sector both in Australia and overseas, along with a history of recruitment in North America. It was during this time, he says, he came up with the idea.<\/p>\n

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The business has had its challenges, such as bringing good quality people on board early in the company\u2019s run. And \u201cdeveloping systems and procedures\u201d to run such a complicated business has been difficult.<\/p>\n

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But the business is continuing to grow, with Vollebregt\u2019s goal to make the business run without him.<\/p>\n

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Of course, there\u2019s an added benefit to success: \u201cWinning a bet against my brother that this business couldn’t become scaleable!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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