{"id":42247,"date":"2023-10-20T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/aussie-startups-can-be-the-worlds-best-and-its-time-for-investors-to-believe-it-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:19:48","slug":"aussie-startups-can-be-the-worlds-best-and-its-time-for-investors-to-believe-it-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/aussie-startups-can-be-the-worlds-best-and-its-time-for-investors-to-believe-it-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie startups can be the world\u2019s best and it\u2019s time for investors to believe it – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A young Aussie founder of a startup pitches to a room full of Aussie angel investors. He\u2019s a few weeks back from a very successful first trip to Silicon Valley, where his unique, world-first technology, intelligence and soft-spoken competence have opened doors everywhere he goes.<\/p>\n

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After the pitches, an angel investor comes up and advises him not to mention that he\u2019s met Marc Andreessen, because investors won\u2019t believe it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s true: it\u2019s hard growing a tech startup industry in this country; even harder when the people hoping to profit from it don\u2019t believe we might be capable of competing with the best of Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s way past time we grew out of the Australian \u2018tall poppy syndrome\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Maybe that investor doesn\u2019t realise that in Silicon Valley, people meet Andreessen all the time. That\u2019s the way Andreessen goes about investing in their startups. He\u2019s a billionaire super-genius, sure, but he\u2019s one of many billionaire super-geniuses who\u2019ll meet with you in Silicon Valley if you\u2019re a contender. He doesn\u2019t discriminate against Australians; not like we do back home.<\/p>\n

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In fact we get a better reception from US investors than from Australian investors much of the time. We build revenue-forward, under-valued, global-scale startups the world loves.<\/p>\n

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We nail this shit. We smash it. We jump on its back, wrestle its jaws shut, skin it, and tie its teeth on our hats.<\/p>\n

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And it\u2019s way past time we lost the tall poppy syndrome.<\/p>\n

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Alan Jones is chief growth hacker at<\/i> BlueChilli<\/i>. This article originally appeared on<\/i> Medium<\/i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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