Phaedon's Events round up
Its been an action packed start to the second quarter of the financial year for us. Our second Innovation Bay
Angel dinner attracted a record number of early stage ventures seeking to pitch (26). The format is a closed dinner for 40 experienced technology investors and venture capitalist to review 3 early stage ventures.
We heard pitches from www.villagegreenglobal.com , www.photoartgallary.com and http://www.badumna.com/ . The dinner included Mike Cannon Brooks from Atlassian, Bill Bartee from Southern Cross Ventures, Peter Homes a Court, David Kowalski from Greenland Digital, Martin Duursma from Citrix, Cliff Rosenberg, Mike Zimmmeran and Australia’s first ever Astronaut, Dr Paul Skully Power who flew on board the Challenger in June 1984 into space to name just a few. Click here for the full story
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Why the US condenses Startups
Startups happen in clusters. There are a lot of them in Silicon Valley and Boston, and few in Chicago or Miami. A country that wants startups will probably also have to reproduce whatever makes these clusters form.
I've claimed that the recipe is a great university near a town smart people like. If you set up those conditions within the US, startups will form as inevitably as water droplets condense on a cold piece of metal. But when I consider what it would take to reproduce Silicon Valley in another country, it's clear the US is a particularly humid environment. Startups condense more easily here. Click here to read the full story
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