{"id":47212,"date":"2023-10-20T15:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/israel-inspires-young-aussie-entrepreneurs-to-be-team-players-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:52:49","slug":"israel-inspires-young-aussie-entrepreneurs-to-be-team-players-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/israel-inspires-young-aussie-entrepreneurs-to-be-team-players-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel inspires young Aussie entrepreneurs to be team players – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four young Australian entrepreneurs have returned from a trip to Israel with a shared mission: to make the ecosystem back home work as a team.<\/p>\n

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It was the first time that Australians took part in the Investec Young Entrepreneurs Trip<\/a>; with Pixc founder Holly Cardew, Airtasker co-founder Tim Fung, Propeller\u2019s Rory San Miguel and Jayride\u2019s Rod Bishop joining 23 other entrepreneurs from South Africa and the UK.<\/p>\n

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The Aussie delegates say the biggest lesson from the trip was the need to work co-operatively as a national ecosystem and show off our success stories.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe tall poppy syndrome can flourish in Australia,\u201d Fung tells StartupSmart.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re cynical about someone doing well \u2013 we\u2019ve got to change that and support our own.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe need to work as an ecosystem team.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn Israel the ecosystem works well as a team \u2013 everyone is supporting each other. From a global perspective, when you go into Israel all the teams are talking about how awesome Israel is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cardew is now based in Silicon Valley, and says she saw a marked difference in how the community works together in Israel.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of the time in Silicon Valley they are talking about themselves and how good they are,\u201d Cardew tells StartupSmart.<\/i><\/p>\n


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\u201cIn Israel they all talk about how good they are as a team and the startup scene as a whole.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn Australia we are great and we need to talk about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The four young Australians on the trip made a pledge to encourage other local founders to get on board with the team effort.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll of us were standing around going, \u2018we have to gee each other up\u2019,\u201d Fund says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have to work together.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the beginning of every person\u2019s pitch-deck over there were a couple of slides that said why Israel is great for startups. The same thing should be happening here \u2013 we should be saying Australia is a good place to invest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cardew adds that it\u2019s a matter of moving past the classic Australian humbleness.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey all gee each other up there. I\u2019m not sure we do enough of that, we\u2019re very modest,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf we all do that and we\u2019re all on the same page about how awesome Australian founders really are, we could get a lot more foreign investments and talent.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe all got so passionate about really helping each other and getting this message together so that we can help Australian startups.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s also a matter of putting local success stories on a global platform, Fung says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat we really need to do is promote ourselves,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI genuinely believe that we\u2019re too modest.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNot a lot of people know that Australia invented Wi-Fi. We have companies like Canva, Atlassian and BigCommerce that are huge on a global basis, but I don\u2019t think as Australia we\u2019re doing enough to promote each other. We need to be more supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Returning home<\/b><\/p>\n

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Cardew relocated to Silicon Valley with Pixc, but says with recent action on innovation and the burgeoning startup scene; she\u2019s considering re-establishing a presence back home.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m really considering building out my team here and not just being in San Francisco,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic lifestyle, there are people that work hard and they don\u2019t have egos.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the end of the day, Australia is my home.  I would like the equivalent of Silicon Valley to be here, and that\u2019s about getting enough people who do have the money to believe in entrepreneurs and what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat we do as startups is quite crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In order to achieve a better ecosystem, she says Australia needs to start with its next generation of entrepreneurs and founders.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m really passionate about going into schools and telling them coding should be taught as a language,\u201d Cardew says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe weren\u2019t taught about innovation and tech in school, it wasn\u2019t an option.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s what they\u2019re doing in Israel, they\u2019re teaching entrepreneurialism to kids who are nine and getting them to code and build websites. This should be the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Do you know more on this story or have a tip of your own? Raising capital or launching a startup? Let us know. Follow StartupSmart on<\/i> Facebook<\/i>,<\/i> Twitter<\/i>, and<\/i> LinkedIn<\/i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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