Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

We have now started covering interviews with CEO’s, Media Personalities, Philanthropists, VC’s, Entrepreneurs to understand more about innovation, tech trends and emerging business models. As part of the series we have published these interviews. Shane Moore , Founder, ApartmentReviews Scott Middleton , Co-Founder, infome Keith Ahren , Co-Founder, mogeneration Daniel Nitsche , Founder, Shadow Gap Anton Sher , Co-Founder, Front Foot Karl De ABrew , Co-Founder, Debenu Dr. Keith Ayott e, Co-Founder, Windlab Systems Malcom Allen , Founder, Glynx Aulay Macaulay , Founder, JutRosters Graham Dawson , Founder, OZWeather Graeme Speak , CEO, Founder, GoPC Susie Hambleton , Entrepreneur, Owner Kahuna Bay Meg Tsiamis , Entrepreneur, Owner dLook, Obits Sreenivas Ghatty , Entrepreneur, Tree Oils India Rick Anstey - A VC Perspective, iQFunds Paul Budde , State of Telecom in Australia, Budde Comm Ross Hill , Entrepreneur, HatchThat Nick McNaughton , A VC View, Blue Cove Ventures Che Metcalfe , Entr

This is a guest post by Rajesh Jain, an entrepreneur based in Mumbai, India, and Founder and Managing Director of Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd . He has put together his thoughts on the emerging opportunities in the Mobile domain especially focusing on India. Let's explore what he has to say about this emerging platform and the opportunity: The Shift from Internet 1 (Portals) to Internet 2 (Search) The early days of the Internet were all eyeballs and monetisation via banner (graphical) advertising. The business was about creating portals and destination sites like Yahoo and AOL were doing. There was also some eCommerce going via the likes of eBay and Amazon. These were significant opportunities but they paled into what was created by Google with the simplicity of paid search. Of course, Google did not create the base model - that was done by Overture (GoTo.com) which was later acquired by Yahoo. But Google refined it to perfection. Search captures intent - to find or buy. Google first

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture co-founded in 2008 by Ian McCallam from Sydney, NSW, Australia , SMS Poll - Mobile Text Message Voting Application. In a recent email-based interview with Ian, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? Born, raised and graduated in London. I now live in Sydney. I’ve always been a bit of an ‘inventor of ideas’ and when the Internet came along I knew I could put down my pencil and paper and start creating things in a new world where they would be seen by people across the world (rather than just my friends and next door neighbour!). I started my digital media career about 10 years ago at a London agency creating online solutions for a variety of blue-chip clients. I spent my spare time writing about emerging trends on the web and across the world as one of the founding writers for PSFK.com. I later went on to e

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture co-founded in 2007 by Andrew Ballard from Drysdale on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, My Perfect - Don't Search, Choose or in other words it turns the idea of a search engine completely around. In a recent email-based interview with Andrew, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about your venture/company? We've developed a revolutionary new type of search engine - so different, in fact, that we've coined the phrase 'choice engine' to describe it. To go back one step - there's a fundamental problem with the way traditional search engines work. So fundamental, in fact, that everyone seems oblivious to the problem. Traditional search engines begin with a single query and return thousands or millions of results. These results are determined by a complex algorithm that takes into account relevance, straight keyword matching, user hi

Today I would like to give you some more insights into how this journey of following Aussie technology startups started and where I'm heading with this initiative. I have been following technology startups coming out of Australia since 2005. I published the first comprehensive list of startups in Australia in 2006 for RWW . Martin Wells & users at Whirlpoolforums provided leads in compiling that list. From their onwards, I have kept a close eye on the new ventures coming out of Australia. In March 2008, I conducted the First Online Startups Carnival which was Judged by Duncan Riley, Ross Dawson & Justin Davies .  During the carnival, we (Judges and I) covered nearly 30 startups. Since then I have covered an additional 40 startups - so in total 70 startups and interviews with VCs & Angel Investors . This list will be growing, as I will be covering more in the coming days/weeks/months/years. In addition to this, I have started publishing market analysis , technology

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture co-founded by Adele Whish-Wilson in 2002, Momentum Technologies Group - Live Video Streaming Over Mobile. In a recent email-based interview with Adele , she gave insights into her venture and how she is progressing with it. This is what she has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? My background was initially in psychology and communications, which led to roles in the private, community and government sectors that covered everything from supporting health campaigns to assisting in developing state government department e-business strategies. My interest in finding ways to improve ‘how things are done’ led me to take a role as a business analyst, then onto starting Momentum in 2002 – where I continue to be focused on assisting our clients find a better way to get things done. My interests are long-distance running (completed my first marathon last year, and did Oxfam’s 100km Trailwalker this year),

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

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture founded by Grant Simonds from Melbourne, Australia, MComms TV - a software solutions company that specialises in live Mobile TV monitoring, digital audio/video mixing, transcoding and Mobile TV Ad Insertion for the telecommunications industry. Their products are used by network operators and content providers globally to deliver innovative Mobile TV services to subscribers. In a recent email-based interview with Grant, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about your venture/company? MComms Monitor enables video streaming operators to monitor the availability of multiple video streams on-screen and using SNMP traps. Provides a “Video Wall” for staff and customers to view available streaming content. MComms Transcode converts redundant live video streams from the internet, IPTV and analog/digital feeds into compatible Mobile TV video streams. A stream can