Tag: venture capital

Jason Clare taps a digital détente

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Jason Clare’s western Sydney electorate of Blaxland is in the Labor heartland, a seat once held by former Prime Minister Paul Keating. Its challenges are substantial, not least an...

Interview: Rene Sugo, MyNetFone

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Australian Voice over IP specialist MyNetFone has grown from modest beginnings into a technology leader with an expanding global footprint. Chief Executive Rene Sugo saw an opportunity to transform...

Global policy advice on startups

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The need to increase productivity and hence to foster innovation isn’t restricted to Australia. It is a phenomenon common across all economies. A hurdle for small innovative firms –...

China IP concerns over-blown: GGV

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No amount of hand-wringing over protecting your intellectual property in China is going to help build your company, and the notion that you can be globally focused and somehow...

State govts – the innovation engine

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For decades, state governments have sponsored innovation programs to boost startups and innovative growth companies. Programs have ranged from small to large, from information provision to technology vouchers, from...

Telstra Ventures lands in Beijing

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Telstra Ventures, the investment arm of Australia’s largest telco, will place its first person on the ground in Asia by the end of August with the addition of a...

Govt should pay Super venture fees

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The Federal Government should consider underwriting the management fees of venture capital firms to attract large-scale institutional investors like the superannuation funds, Starfish Ventures founders John Dyson and Michael...

SIVs may distort Aussie VC sector

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The famine-to-feast nature of the Significant Investor Visa money expected to hit the Australian venture capital market could do more harm than good, according to one of the industry’s...

Doubling down on the SIV punt

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The Australian Government plan to sell a 12-month “pathway to permanent residency” to business migrants for $15 million seems to be a policy at odds with itself. The new...