Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

It is been more than a year since this portal started following and discovering new ventures coming out of Australia across various domains. It's been an interesting journey learning about the stories of people behind these ventures and their success stories. To reflect upon what has been achieved in the last 12 months I have compiled the list of the top 5 reports and interviews published here. Top 5 Reports Sensis and the Australian Search and Directories Market Local Search & Directories Market Heating Up Emerging Mobile Startups of Australia FY08 Report - Telstra & Sensis Performing Well, Expansion into China, Starts Competing with iTunes Telstra lost round 1 to Apple's iPhone, now gearing for round 2 with Google's Android Top 5 Interviews A VC Perspective: Innovation & Start-ups Landscape in Australia Story of an Aussie Entrepreneur - Mother of 4 and Owns 3 Ventures Paul Budde's View: State of Telecom Industry and Innovation in Australia. Status of Mo

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, today we explore a promising startup - GoPC www.gopc.net - is next generation “cloud computing”. It is your entire PC desktop along with your applications and data, but runs across the Internet from a super computer and projects a screen image to any device you happen to be sitting at. It's founded by Graeme Speak from Perth, Australia. In email-based interview with Graeme, conducted in Dec 2008, he explained how he is progressing with his venture. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? My name is Graeme Speak. I’m the CEO/Founder of GoPC and currently based in San Francisco/Silicon Valley. I also founded and ran another company in Australia, Central Data, which operates a data centre and specialises in Outsourcing projects (network and software development). It’s now been running for 28 years. I studied Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science an

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, today we explore a promising startup - RetailMeNot.com . It is co-founded by Bevan Clark and Guy King of Stateless Systems, Sydney, Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Bevan, he explained how he is progressing with his venture. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about your venture/company? Stateless Systems is a bootstrapped venture focused on building websites and tools that make the Internet easier to use. Our web properties include: RetailMeNot.com : Find and share coupon codes for thousands of online stores BeatMyPrice.com : A people-powered price comparison engine CushyCMS.com : A super easy hosted content management system OurSignal.com : Social news aggregator and visualizer BugMeNot.com : Bypass compulsory web registration PDFMeNot.com : Takes the hassle out of viewing PDFs online JungleCrazy.com : Browse Amazon products discounted by at least 70% • Who are the people behind thi

Background : Australian Startups Carnival - 2008 is an initiative by VS Consulting Group . This online (web-based) carnival is all about learning about new ventures started/surfaced in IT, Telecoms, Green Tech, Media, and Web 2.0/Social Networking in the last couple of years. Vishal covered the state of web 2.0  startups in 2006 for ReadWriteWeb . But since then a lot of water has gone under. We are now expanding our coverage, as some great ideas are being put together and executed. We intend to discover the people behind these startups, their motivations, how the future looks from their perspective, what technologies are being used, what market segments they are targeting, their mistakes, their advice and more. Why: One of the main reasons we are doing this  is to make this black art of starting up more open and easy. When we look on the web there is so much high-level information about business models and how companies are doing, blah blah, but not much on how we should go about it

Today I'm publishing the list of Australian Startups that have surfaced on the global map in the last 3-5 years and got coverage on our Startups Portal . This is an ongoing endeavour to learn more about new technology-based startups in IT (Enterprise, Product, Open source, SAAS, eCommerce, Web 2.0/3.0), Telecom (Mobile, OSS/BSS), Media (News, Social Networking), Marketing/Branding, Green Tech (Sustainability, Carbon trading), R&D. The following list will be updated regularly as we learn more about startups and cover it here. If you know any new venture or startup which we should know then please feel free to contact us . Let us look at the list now: Adimade Agents of Cha nge Ankoder ApartmentReviews AppleBox Australiaforum BeamMe.Info Booktagger Boozle Brownbook Buzka Cinergix Clickfind Clivir Coastal Watch Community Enabler Confer Debenu Docoloco Etradesman Flogd FreeConnect Front Foo

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, today we explore a promising startup in E-Learning - Clivir . It was founded by Simon from Perth Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Simon, he explained how he is progressing with his venture. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I have always been interested in teaching people. I have been in training/teaching for about 8 years. I was a high school science teacher for a while then moved into training people with disabilities. For the last few years, I have been training specialist software. • Please tell us about your venture/company? Clivir features tutorial-style lessons that can be created by combining text with web-based resources from sites like YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr and Scribd etc. These lessons are grouped within member-created classrooms that provide informal learning environments for discussions and member interactions. Don’t let tutorials get lost in

Today we showcase the story of an entrepreneur with 3 successful ventures under his belt, Matthew Ireland, founder of eTradesman.com.au , MineOnline.com.au & LawyerLink.com.au from Sydney, Australia. In a candid interview with us, he explained how as an entrepreneur he is managing and juggling. This is what he has to say in his interview with us : • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I’m Matt Ireland, founder and manager of eTradesman.com.au , MineOnline.com.au & LawyerLink.com.au . Based between Sydney & Newcastle I have a huge passion and interest in the possibilities and developments of the Internet and am always keen to read up on entrepreneurs and people who have been there and done it. Huge sports fan outside of ‘work’ and enjoy a beer with friends and family. • What is the name of your venture/company? Our current portfolio of online businesses includes  eTradesman.com.au , Mi neOnlin e.com.au & LawyerLink.com.au – stay focused on

I recently did an email-based interview with Emily Freeman, founder of Mobilist , one of the emerging mobile consultants on the Status of Mobile Advertising in Australia. Let's explore what she has to say about this emerging platform and the opportunity: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? My background is a mix of marketing and online. After my Marketing degree, I worked in marketing & product management for companies like Ernst & Young, Fairfax & Microsoft in the UK . I've always been interested in technology - even in 1997 at Fairfax I managed CD-ROM products! In the dot com boom, I worked as a community manager for a startup and luckily ended up in a stable role at Sensis when the crash came. At Sensis, I managed websites like Whereis Online and in 2004 I was offered the opportunity to develop Sensis' first WAP products. Back then there was no mobile industry, so it's exciting to have been part of something from the v

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, today we explore a promising startup in the online video platform segment - WasabiTV . It was co-founded by Ananth Sarathy from Sydney Australia. In a recent email based interview with Ananth, he explained how he is progressing with his venture. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? Ananth Sarathy and Daniel Brunet met at an Apple reseller and remained in contact over the next few years. Ananth Sarathy, Co-founder/The Digital Media and Strategic Partnerships Clown.- Has a degree in Business and IT, who has worked for Australia's Largest retailers as a Senior Business Analyst and like Daniel has a passion for All things Australia, whether it be Content or Intellectual Property and Innovation. Daniel Brunet, Co-founder/Code Monkey - Is a freelance web designer and developer, bringing his interest in the Arts, Video and Music to life with the tools of the web. A Graphic guru was able