startup-ecosystem-mapping-report

Network
CENTRALITY
PEOPLE
30 Most Central People Ranked by >
ORGANISATIONS & EVENTS
30 Most Central Organisations & Events Ranked by >
Rank Votes Betweenness Votes Between
1 Colin Kinner Colin Kinner iLab Commercialisation Australia
2 Peter Laurie Paul Jones River City Labs iLab
3 John Mactaggart Stephen Baxter Brisbane Angels River City Labs
4 Anna Rooke John Scott Startup Weekend - Brisbane Appointuit
5 Ruth Drinkwater Chris Macaulay Association of Angel Investors Bliip
6 Peta Ellis Ian Dutka Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Budding Entrepreneurs Grant
7 Ian Connor Michelle Kazukaitis Arts Queensland CoSituate
8 Aaron Birkby Rick Anstey Queensland University of Technology Silicon Lakes
9 Richard Moore Tony Winters Silicon Beach - Brisbane Innovation Centre
10 Sue Swinburne Greg Searle Startup QLD Distractless
11 Christy Dena Andrey Shirben Founders Forum PeeP Digital
12 Greg Burnett Daniel Harman Gold Coast Angels Future Oceans
13 Jock Blair Danielle Bennett QUT Creative Enterprise Australia cohortpay
14 Dean Alle Alhusayn Hamidaddin Halfbrick Studios Credosity
15 Mark Paddenburg Drew Leishman River Pitch OtherLevels
16 Steve Dalton John Lambie Innovation Centre - SC Brisbane Angels
17 Clarence Tan Karen Bracher iPledge Transition Level Investments
18 Rick McElhinney Matthew Clarkson Startup Weekend - SC TrekTraka
19 Tanya Lipus Jackie Stapleton Silicon Lakes Euclideon
21 Bryan Vadas Kellie Rainbow Cartesian Co Liquid State
21 Bernie Woodcroft Marie Ewings Coder Dojo Right Pedal Studios
22 Cieron Cody Matthew Evans Creative Conference Sea Safe
23 Cole Wilkinson Nick Drewe Idea Network Cartesian Co
24 Elaine Stead Stephen Colbran Microsoft Innovation Centre Ample Entertainment
25 Guy Jones Stephen Walsh Ollo Mobile Five Faces
26 Hans Van Vilet Sean Edwards QUT Bluebox Milaana
27 Josh Tanner Tony Lee State Library of Queensland Swipeads
28 Kieran O’Hea Adam M ASSOB Cloud DC
29 Kristen Souvils Andy Tompkins City of Gold Coast Optii Solutions
30 Tim Kastelle Ashley Pearson-Adams Wavebreak Ghostbox
METHODOLOGY
“There’s a temptation in our networked age to think
that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s
crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings,
from random discussions. You run into someone, you
ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re
cooking up all sorts of ideas.” Steve Jobs
Network centrality is a measure of the density of a
person or organisation’s interconnectedness with a
network and density of relationships. It is a strong factor
in entrepreneurial success, and is a great indicator of
how likely you are to have spontaneous meetings and
random discussions. Also if you want to be introduced
to a particular person, someone more central in a
network will be more likely to know them.
As part of the project three workshops, one in each
region, with 66 key members of the ecosystem were
held. Participants were asked to map the community
and vote on the key people, organisations and events in
the ecosystem. The two columns above, labelled Votes,
display the community votes weighted proportionately
to the relative sizes of each region’s population and
ranked accordingly.
In addition the relationships between people within the
startup ecosystem on Linkedin, Angel List, Crunchbase
and Meetup, were aggregated and analysed using an
algorithm to calculate a network centrality score for all
the nodes in the network. There are several measures
of centrality. This report uses a common measure of
network centrality - Betweenness - to identify the top 30
people and organisations.
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