Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

As part of our expanding coverage in IT, Telecom, Mobile, Green Tech, Media, and Games, today we are showcasing the story of an entrepreneur who has recently migrated to Melbourne from India. Sreenivas Ghatty, the founder and CEO of Tree Oils India, engaged in the manufacture of Biodiesel from non-electric tree Oils such as Jatropha and Pongamia. He was interviewed last week by Suhit Anantula who covers and writes on sustainability, economics, technology and development. Let us explore a bit further how Sreenivas is settling in Australia and his future plans with his venture. This is what Sreenivas has to say in his chat with Suhit. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I have a Masters in Agriculture and was a corporate banker in India and Dubai for 18 years until I entered the Biodiesel industry in 2003. I live in Melbourne with my wife and two daughters and keep travelling to India and other countries regularly. ...

Today we are showcasing another venture from Melbourne, Australia, Docoloco Co-Founded by Melbourne boys, Chris Mander and Johnny Cussen, Docoloco - is a community powered online recommendation engine that helps locals find, share and follow the best local businesses. In laymen terms, people can use Docoloco to find recommended local businesses and services, recommend the places they love (or love to hate) and ask friends and other locals to share their recommendations. Chris Mander, describes: Today local businesses use Docoloco to: list their business, features and products online free of charge, appear in the top web results on Google, use their loyal customer base to generate new business and attract new customers. Tomorrow businesses will use Docoloco to: find out a whole lot more about who their customers and competitors really are and deliver highly targeted ads to a local audience. Let us explore bit more about Docoloco and Chris's journey as an ...

Today we showcase the story of a woman entrepreneur, mum of 4 and 3 successful ventures under her belt, Meg Tsiamis , founder of dLook , Obits , Aussie Bloggers from Sydney, Australia. In a candid interview with us, she explained how as a mum and an entrepreneur she is managing and juggling. This is what she has to say in her interview with us : • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I guess I’m a bit of a late bloomer. I married at twenty and had my first child at 23. My s tudies were haphazard, and I finally graduated from Uni when I was 31 and launched straight into graduate studies. A glutton for punishment. My earlier working life consisted of a range of accounting and administrative type roles. In 2000 I set up a finance brokerage which I grew until I started with the internet ventures. Interests? Blogging I guess! • How did you become an entrepreneur, tell us your thought process and how i t began? Quite by accident really! One night my husband was loo...

Today we showcase the story of a young woman entrepreneur, Susie Hambleton, founder of Kahuna Bay , from Gold Coast, Australia. Kahuna Bay - is a brand of tropical-styled homewares and accessories. The Kahuna Bay products are sold in boutiques and homewares stores in Australia as well as online in the web boutique. The products are made from natural materials such as sea shells, mango wood, sandstone, mother of pearl, freshwater pearls and silk. We explored a bit further about Susie and her journey as a woman entrepreneur. This is what she has to say in her interview with us: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I live on the Gold Coast. I am Australian but grew up in California. I have an MBA from California State University and a Bachelors in Management and Marketing. When I’m not consumed with my business…you’ll usually find me at the beach, in yoga class or hanging out with friends. I’m learning to surf and always surround myself with people. The...

Today we are covering a new startup in mobile and advertising space - BeamMe.Info Co-founded by, Alex Macpherson, Brad Down, and Tim Murray, in 2007, BeamMe.Info is a web platform that allows website owners to add a Send to Mobile button alongside relevant and valuable content their visitors/users might be looking for. Perfect for desktop web users looking for promotional codes, address listings, event times and places, transport confo's, product info, etc. Rather than printing it out or writing it down, it's a simple click and send function that sends the required info to your phone via SMS. Also perfect for the delivery of mobile URLs to drive traffic to mobile web assets, while users are on the go. There is also a powerful ad-supported model that allows website owners to turn the SMS expense into a revenue opportunity by allowing targeting and relevant advertising messages on the bottom of their Beams. This is a compelling new channel for advertisers to open up a conversat...

Today we cover a new startup MomentVille . If you are planning for a wedding then you might want to look at this site. Founded by Geoff Evason, MomentVille is a free, stylish, and easy-to-use personal wedding website builder. Its main aim is to help people share, plan, and remember life’s special moments. Geoff describes: I was looking to build a wedding website. I was unable to find one that was free, fun, and easy to use. I also disliked the fact that most wedding websites charge excessive prices simply because there is a wedding!. So the core team built MomentVille from the ground up making sure it was free, easy and fun! Let us learn a bit more about Geoff, his journey as an entrepreneur and the changing landscape of innovation in Australia. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? Geoff has experience in a range of companies including startups, and medium and large companies. Geoff’s major interest is in using technology to help make life better. He belie...

Australian Startups Carnival 2008 is over now. Our coverage is continuing and expanding. This post is all about summarizing and providing all the necessary links for people who want to read about the carnival. The necessary links are: About FAQ Participants Judges Prizes Judges' Feedback to Participants Results Thanks I hope this helps everyone.

As part of our ongoing efforts  to provide more exposure to startups coming out of Australia and helping them today were are going to showcase Clickfind™ . Founded by Carolyn King and Taco Fleur , Clickfind™ , is an online business directory that charges a monthly fee to businesses that list their products and services. Established for the Australian marketplace, its intellectual property is owned by clickfind Pty Ltd which means the clickfind™ technology and brand can also be licensed to international markets. Taco one of the co-founders describes : The idea of clickfind came about when we wanted to list our own businesses in business directories, one of them being the Yellow Pages. We had an experience that left a bad taste in our mouth, an empty wallet and no results. Thats when we decided to create a business directory/search engine for Australia that is different and excels in the areas others don't. Let us explore a bit more about Clickfind and how they are pro gres sing: •...