Perth’s Startup Scene

Burgeoning. Underfunded. Huge potential

Charlie Gunningham, CEO Business News

MBA Graduation, March 1999

7 months later… Dec 1999

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Startup! (little did we know)

The West

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Business News

10 years later

… SOLD!

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Issues

2009 – Tax changes 2012 – Locals turn on 2014 – CA scrapped

2015 –Accelerators, tax better, AC funds

1st comes the ecosystem …

… then comes the success stories,then comes the investors

But some great ideas leave WA…

So what we need now is…

$ FUNDING! $(Else the digital vikings will take us)

“Throw enough darts…”

Some targets…

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