Category: Australia
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The centre of the tech startup universe is moving from the USA to Asia
A string of data and opinions have been released in recent days that support the view that the global tech startup ecosystem centre is shifting towards Asia and Australasia – where population growth and performance are increasingly leading the world. CrunchBase says US Regional VC investments in tech are in…
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The future of tech is outside Silicon Valley
Peter Thiel – known for his investments in Paypal, Facebook, AirBnB and Palantir – spoke in Saudi Arabia about his strong views on the topic of ‘the future of tech’ this week. He believes tech will increasingly be created outside the US and California has lost their monopoly. This reinforces the views…
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The Way Forward for Innovation in Australia
Old innovation ecosystem models are broken, it is time to realise the open models based around startups (particularly scalable global product based tech startups) are the key to our future. The above diagram by StartupCommons summarises the change in focus at a macro level, we also need to look at…
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Internet Trends Analysis
Here at Cooper & Co we have a long standing appreciation of the work of Mary Meeker who is now @KPCB and continues to produce her excellent Internet Trends report on a semi regular basis. Here are our top points extracted from the rather wonderful 164 pages of charts Mary and…
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SydStart by Cooper & Co.
Cooper & Co are proud to be the founding and long term sponsors of the largest professional tech startup event in Australia – SydStart. This event is something we support because we want to grow the startup ecosystem in Australia and it is undergoing a dramatic growth phase, due in no…
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Australia – Central To Asian Century
The recent discussion about Australia’s Asian Century is simply one of our largest opportunities but also one of our largest understated achievements. Australia has always been part of Asia. The recent statements by the current government are merely playing catchup and grabbing easy headlines. The reality is we have been closely part…
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