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Frequent Founders and SERIAL ENTREPRENEURS People or groups of people within the ecosystem that have founded multiple companies. This does not necessarily represent financial value created. STEVE DALTON Share Your Love Gold Coast TechSpace Refactor secluded.io GC Tech Shop Dalton Technology Sensaware AARON BIRKBY Coded Intelligence Internet Here SenseHubly Arinda Internet App Start Studios The Chat Room Aptek Beyond The Black Stump Productions Silicon Lakes AVRIL JEAN Smooth Operator Creature Creative Neo Media Networks STEPHEN NEATE Subtle Difference My Sunshine Coast Brolga Real Estate KRISTY OUWERKERK Veilability Wedding Village Toto Solutions PETRINA BUCKLEY PAUL JONES Credosity Last Thursday Club Magneto Communications MARK WHITE Greencloud Labs Mobile Monday Brisbane Locatrix Communications STEVE BAXTER Right Pedal Studios River City Labs Transition Level Investments PIPE Networks SENet (ISP) TRISTAN MATTHIAS PAUL KNITTEL Documaps.io Pixler Webdesign FlowPro STEVE BAXTER Stephen is one of Queensland most active investors through his seed fund Transition Level Investments, and also one of the most active founders, having founded both River City Labs (technology co-working space) and Right Pedal Studios (seed accelerator for game studios). He is currently a board member and advisor to several companies including ASX listed Vocus Communications, and investor in many startups including txt4coffee, TrekTraka, goCatch, OrionVM and Atomo Diagnostics. At age 15 (1986) Steve joined the army serving for nine years (1995) working on electronics, & whilst still in the army at age 23 (1994) he convinced his fiancée to invest their $11,000 savings (which was to be a deposit on their first home) into building an ISP in their rented house using six telephone lines and grew it to the 7th largest ISP in Australia at the time. His company was acquired by Ozemail just before the dot com bust of the early 2000s. After taking a year off to fish he cofounded PIPE Networks in 2001 with Bevan Slattery, which floated with a $14m market cap. PIPE was later acquired by TPG Telecom for $373m. AARON BIRKBY Aaron is one of the founders at Silicon Lakes (incubator), founder at App Start Studios (app development company), and founder of Coded Intelligence (a remote telemetry monitor system for amusement rides and vending machines). Aaron was also a founding Director for 8 years at Arinda Internet, a business that specialises in internet kiosks, wireless hotspots and digital wireless advertising systems, prior to selling it in late 2012. He has been involved in setting up numerous other IT start-ups, including Web Site Writers, Softcom Consulting, The Chat Room, and Perfect World. Before moving to the Gold Coast in 2004, he was the A/g Manager of Intelligence Systems for Customs in Canberra, had various intelligence roles in the National Crime Authority, NSW Crime Commission, and was a Consultant at PwC in Sydney. He has a Bachelor of Science (Physics and Mathematics) from the UNSW, and a Bachelor of Law from the University of New England. STEVE DALTON Steve founded Secluded.io a sensor platform for remote areas in 2014. Prior to this he co-founded Sensaware (formerly Rehydrate), a wearable device that assists rural fire-fighters to stay hydrated, and one of the winners at the first Gold Coast Startup Weekend in 2013. Steve founded Gold Coast Tech shop in 2012 a marketplace for Open Source & hackable hardware such as Arduino, Electronics kits & Raspberry PIs. Since 2006 he has been an organiser for Barcamp Queensland (a meetup group), is a Silicon Lakes Ambassador, and recently started the very popular Lego workshops for kids, held in the School holidays. He originally studied at the University of Birmingham from 1992-96. 36
KEVIN GOSSCHALK CHRIS MACAULAY MATTHEW FORD SwipeAds Secure Skateboards JOHN PASSFIELD Right Pedal Studios 3 Blokes Studios Krome Studios Red Sprite Studios LUKE BRANNELLY V2i Pty Ltd 3Dme Creative Studio V2i Mining & Resources AVARDI CRAIG DEVESON Cloud Manager Devnet DVSGroup cloudsafe365 GERARD DOYLE Zippy.com.au Lead Galaxy DiscountVouchers.co.uk BDS.com.au CHRIS HOOPER GEOFF KWITKO Cirillo Hooper& Company the startup club EcoLivingScene.com.au CHRIS DRAKE Elastice uCrack iFix Viscous Solutions Summer Drift Group GINO DE PASQUALE dp dialogue De Pasquale Advertising The Authentic Executive Dojo Wellness Experience NKOSANA HUMPHREY MAFICO NICHOLAS JENKINS Academic Technologies PeeP Digital B2K Gardening GERARD DOYLE In late 2013 Gerard founded BDS.com.au - a mobile marketing and daily-deals service after his original company Zippy (founded in 2009) merged with Qwibble. In 2011 Gerard worked in the UK as CEO for DiscountVouchers.co.uk (currently 100m+ revenue). Discount Vouchers was founded by Doug Scott, one of the UK’s leading angel investors and a serial entrepreneur himself, who provided funding for BDS through his seed fund Potential. Prior to working at Discount Vouchers, Gerard had a range of executive roles at UK daily deals and affiliate marketing companies. In 2005 he founded Lead Galaxy, a marketplace for UK property investors. CHRIS DRAKE Chris founded Elastice, a service to democratise the pricing and discount process for e-commerce stores, Viscous Solutions (an e-commerce consulting firm), uCrack iFix (a smartphone repair business that has expanded to include several online stores that drop-ship products internationally). He is a member of River City Labs, participated in iLab’s Germinate program, was a speaker at TEDxUQ, and is an organiser of a student entrepreneurship conference to be held in July 2014 (Global Innovative Youth Conference). JOHN PASSFIELD John is currently the program manager for Right Pedal Studios and has founded a number of games companies including Krome Studios, 3 Blokes Studios and Red Sprite Studios. He was the creative director of Pandemic Studios, VP of Rockyou, and has led the creative direction on a number of Facebook titles including Brainiversity, Hospital Town, Virtual Villagers, Galactic Trader, Galactic Allies, and Save Our Village. 37
Page 1 and 2: South East Queensland 2014 STARTUP
Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS Foreword 4 Dashboard 5 Abo
Page 5 and 6: Summary statistics as at July 2014
Page 7 and 8: Why is digital technology important
Page 9 and 10: THIS REPORT ESTIMATES THE POTENTIAL
Page 11 and 12: 1 in 1,000 COMPANY STAGES This diag
Page 13 and 14: Startup formation rates FORMATION U
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Page 17 and 18: 1500000 35000000 30000000 Investors
Page 19 and 20: Investors and Investments FUND FLOW
Page 21 and 22: Growth accelerators INCUBATION Orga
Page 23 and 24: Network CENTRALITY PEOPLE 30 Most C
Page 25 and 26: Location, Place and ENTREPRENEURIAL
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Page 31 and 32: The role of the arts in Queensland
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Page 39 and 40: TOP TEN COMMUNITY ISSUES BY REGION
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