Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

First of all, we would like to thank all our participants who have participated in this carnival. We are happy to announce that we have received 23 28 applications for the event. This has been a great outcome considering the short time frame we were working in. Ideally, we were looking at 40-50 applications but some of the startups have become full grown businesses now and don’t consider them startups anymore, moreover and other was we tried so many VCs to come on board but nobody came on board. We are still negotiating sponsorships for the event with 2 organizations one will be a major sponsorship for the event if finalised we will pass on the sponsorship to winners of the carnival. 2 smaller sponsors have come on board, once we get the money it will help us in recovering tiny cost and support the enormous day and night efforts going on behind the scenes to make this happen. Our Judges have started working on putting together the guidelines and soon will be on the task of scrutinizin...

Following Startups & Tech Trends is a leading tech portal, that discovers the next generation of startups, innovation & tech trends in Australia. It has a large and highly influential readership and has been rising in rankings ever since its inception in Feb 2008. We are now expanding our coverage in areas like IT (Enterprise, Product, Open source, SAAS, eCommerce,)/Telecom (Mobile, OSS/BSS, Wireless), Media (News, Social Networking), marketing/Branding, Green Tech (Sustainability, Carbon trading), R&D. As part of this commitment: We cover more new start-ups , new business models and technology trends in various domains. We are also conducting interviews with people who started their start-ups but now have a matured business, CEOs, Media Personalities, Philanthropists, and VCs to share with all of you. To support us in this mammoth task, we are offering sponsorship ad units, on the sidebar of this site and at the bottom of each post. As a sponsor, you will be associatin...

After a lot of search, discussions and email exchange, VS Consulting Group is thrilled to announce the 3 Member Judging Panel for the Australian Startups Carnival 2008. The Judging panel has a tough job to judge all the ventures on originality, simplicity, technology and marketability. They will select the top three and will also provide some suggestions to all participants. More details will be worked out in coming weeks with there esteem help. The Judges are : Duncan Riley : A writer, developer, speaker and blogging evangelist. After many years on line, including stints authoring politically focused websites he discovered the then new blogging in 2002, founding The Blog Herald which went on to become a Top 100 blog worldwide at the time. In 2005 he co-founded the b5media blog network, a company now based in Canada that took $2 million US in Venture Capital funding in 2006. Duncan left b5media in late 2006 and now enjoys his time as a freelance writer and developer, including time...

Q1. What is the objective of the carnival? A1. Carnival is the first step in creating an ecosystem where, we can learn about Aussie startups in various fields spanning from IT/Telco to Media/Games, and help those who want to dive into it or may join these upcoming ventures. We strongly feel that there are loads of new ventures starting, but they don't get to see the light of the real world, for various reasons. We intend to help these ventures by creating a platform and environment where they can learn/share/help others in their journey. Starting up a new venture or learning about how to go about it, is like black magic. When we look for some help/expertise or some formal education specifically on entrepreneurship, we just get some elementary education or basic guidance. In today's digital world, there is high-level information about business models and how companies are doing, how and what they did and so on. There is not much guidance/help available freely on how we should go...

Update: Registration is closed but we are giving the extensions in most cases . Apply using the same registration form and send it to us. Update : We have published a FAQ , to clarify some of the queries that were raised in the last few days. We are delighted to invite all the entrepreneurs or thriving ones from the land of green and gold to participate in this online (web-based) carnival . It starts on March 3, 2008 (AEST). How to Register: Download and fill in the registration form and send it to us by email. Upon receiving the registration, a confirmation will be sent by email. Fees: There are no charges/fees for participating in the carnival. Sponsorships: We are offering sponsorship ad units, in the sidebar of this site. As a sponsor, you will be associating your brand with this coverage of Australian Startups, read by thousands of influential people every day. Details here

In our previous post , it has been outlined the reasons for the start of this new initiative. Now to set the ball rolling, the first thing we are doing is we are asking everyone to tell us what they would like to know and learn from the owners/ people behind startups/ventures. We have compiled a list of queries/questions that will be useful for everyone, esp aspiring entrepreneurs. These queries/questions are listed below; please let us know what you think of these queries. If you want to add or remove questions/queries or have suggestions then let us know by contacting us or drop in your comments here. All the information collected will be published here. Questions/Queries we think will be useful to know : Please tell us about your start-up/venture/company? Who are the founders behind this and how it started? How long it took before it was up and running? What stage of your start-up is, stealth mode, beta mode or fully functional. What is the main objective/mission behind your ventur...

As posted earlier we are starting Aussie Startups Carnival 2008. Startups covered during this carnival will be from telecom, web, green computing, media and other segments. We are expecting more than 60 startups to be covered during this carnival. This will be a good place to learn about the people who are behind these startups, their approach, technology and their future plans. Details of how to enter the carnival will be posted here next week. We are offering sponsorship ad units, on the sidebar of this site and at the bottom of each profile post. As a sponsor, you will be associating your brand with this coverage of Australian Startups, read by thousands of influential people every day. Ad Specs: 125 by 125, 468 by 60 and 250 by 250-pixel size Links to the company product page You may insert a tracking code to monitor the performance of your ad Pricing is: 125 by 125 pixel size - on the sidebar of the whole site is - 499.00 AUD 468 by 60-pixel size - on ea...

VS Consulting Group has put together this site for following the next-generation startups in Australia . In the coming weeks, we will be starting Aussie Startups Carnival - 2008. If you know anyone who is involved in startups or new ventures then please pass on this post and my details . We will be covering one/two startups every day, giving insights into the people behind them, technology, target market segments and much more. More details will be posted here and on my blog . Related article : Top Web2.0 Apps in Australia Acknowledgment: The image is provided by Uvouch