{"id":42402,"date":"2023-10-20T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/australias-largest-startup-hub-fishburners-announces-first-international-expansion-to-shanghai-the-time-is-right-for-australian-tech-entrepreneurs-to-contribute-to-the-chinese-revol\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:20:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:20:57","slug":"australias-largest-startup-hub-fishburners-announces-first-international-expansion-to-shanghai-the-time-is-right-for-australian-tech-entrepreneurs-to-contribute-to-the-chinese-revol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/australias-largest-startup-hub-fishburners-announces-first-international-expansion-to-shanghai-the-time-is-right-for-australian-tech-entrepreneurs-to-contribute-to-the-chinese-revol\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s largest startup hub Fishburners announces first international expansion to Shanghai: \u201cThe time is right for Australian tech entrepreneurs to contribute to the Chinese revolution\u201d – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fishburners has announced its first international expansion with Australia\u2019s largest startup hub<\/a> set to open an office in China to help local companies grow into the region.<\/p>\n

The office will be in the Caohejing Innovation Hub in Shanghai, and Fishburners CEO Murray Hurps says it will provide a means for Australian startups to break into the China market.<\/p>\n

\u201cStartups are companies going after large markets using tech and sometimes you can\u2019t do that sitting in an office in Ultimo,\u201d Hurps tells StartupSmart<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make things a bit easier for those addressing global markets. Now you\u2019re not just going it alone, you\u2019ll have friendly contacts on the ground to help you engage and do what you\u2019re trying to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re part of a community where there are other people that are interested in doing the same thing suddenly it\u2019s much easier to go into that market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fishburners is a not-for-profit co-working space in Sydney backed by the likes of Google, Optus and NAB. The group recently completed its first expansion into Brisbane<\/a> and secured a new space in Sydney<\/a>, with it now offering more than 1000 desks to early-stage startups.<\/p>\n

Hurps says that the Shanghai office isn\u2019t meant to encourage Australian startups to relocate entirely, but rather to consider the lucrative overseas market.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last thing I want to do is to send companies overseas,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to take companies that are doing good here and allow them to address other markets by partnerships. I want to allow them to do that while still being a great Australian startup.<\/p>\n

\u201cStartups are only addressing markets that they\u2019re aware of and Fishburners and the startup ecosystem can do a much better job of communicating the opportunities in this region.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fishburners Shanghai office will be spearheaded by the co-founder of the startup hub Peter Davison along with 23Seed\u2019s Daniel Shi.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Australia\u2019s long history of traditional entrepreneurship in China, the time is right for Australian tech entrepreneurs to contribute to the Chinese revolution,\u201d Davison says.<\/p>\n

Caohejing Tech Park co-founder Baofu Hans says he\u2019s excited by the new partnership with Fishburners.<\/p>\n

\u201cFishburners delivers what Australia needs in 2016 \u2013 scalable tech startups \u2013 and I\u2019m very pleased to see them anchor in the harbour of Caohejing Tech Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether we hope Fishburners can sail far in the ocean of international innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

With new spaces in Sydney, Brisbane and Shanghai all now locked in, Hurps says he\u2019s excited to get back to helping Australian founders.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to join Australia\u2019s largest community of highly-scalable tech startups, if you think you\u2019re good enough to make it through the application process, then go to our website and let us know,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll finally have some empty desks to fill and I\u2019m really looking forward to that. It\u2019ll be nice to get back to what I want to be putting effort into \u2013 creating good startups.\u201d<\/p>\n

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