Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

Today we showcase a story of a man who is, an entrepreneur and a successful Angel investor, helping a lot of Australian business to realize their dreams. Clay Cook is based in Perth, Western Australia. Let us explore a bit further how Clay is helping others and what he thinks about innovation coming out of Australia. This is what Clay has to say in his interview with me. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? My "tags" would go something like… Serial tech entrepreneur, Ineedhits, Mint i, Vibe Capital , Gooruze, Angel investor, Father, Husband, Relaxed, Perth, Australia, Nice guy. • What is the name of your venture firm? We are Angel investors and over the past couple of years of years have invested around $500k of our own personal money. • Who are the people behind this and how it started? It is myself and my wife Rachel Cook. We started investing in 2006 when we invested in 1stRed (formally Red Lottery), and then we continued with investments into M...

WebEquity , a new service launched by internet entrepreneur Paul Middleton From Sydney, providing access to internet business development specialists (web developers, designers, marketers, etc.) who are willing to work on an equity or revenue share basis rather than cash payment. This is an interesting move and a welcome news for Australian startups community. More on this initiative by Paul can be found in the press release here: WebEquity has addressed both issues by creating a community of experts in their field who are willing to work on the development of new business ideas in return for a share of their success. In theory, you could have a new, professionally designed internet business up and running in hours without incurring any development costs. The brainchild of internet entrepreneur Paul Middleton, the service sprang from Paul's own frustrations at not having the time to develop his internet business ideas. “I haven't been able to launch half of my ideas because ...

Today we showcase the story of a man who has been a successful angel investor and is now as a VC helping a lot of Australian businesses to realize their dreams. Nick McNaughton who is based in Canberra, ACT, Australia is running a VC portfolio, under the  Blue Cove Ventures umbrella. Let us explore a bit further how Nick is helping others and what he thinks about innovation coming out of Australia. This is what Nick has to say in his interview with me. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I am the CEO and Founder of Blue Cove Ventures . Blue Cove was established in 2007. I have a strong heritage in IT Investments and have a long track record of helping to build and grow software and web companies. Before founding Blue Cove Ventures, he was co-founder of the blog marketing company behind Zookoda . In March 2007 Zookoda was sold to PayPerPost Inc. the leading marketplace for Consumer Generated Advertising. From 2002-2004 I was Director - Asia/ Pacific for ...

Today we showcase a story of a man who is a migrant, an entrepreneur and now a successful VC, helping a lot of Australian businesses to realise their dreams. Rick Anstey who is based in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia is running a VC portfolio, under iQFunds umbrella. Let us explore a bit further how Rick is helping others and what he thinks about innovation coming out of Australia. This is what Rick has to say in his interview with me. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? Rick Anstey- Started my career in I.T. (data processing at that time) in 1972, with a UK insurance company, doing the normal in-house training from operator, programmer and systems analyst. Got married in 1973 and immigrated to Australia in 1976 – difficult to get in – had to pay our own way and applied 3 times before success. Arrived in Sydney in 1976 with no money one child and my wife. Worked with TNT and then with Comalco before starting my first company in 1983. Naturalised Austr...