Director of Entrepreneurship for UTS. Advocate for Australian Entrepreneurship š¦šŗ Formerly CEO Fishburners, Startup Muster, Ad Muncher, Westpacās accelerator.
Sydney, Australia
Joined June 2012
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AI research into housing affordability in Australia.
NSW has made zoning changes which will take 10 years
Phasing out negative gearing and taxing investment properties will help.
Immigration has had an impact but not at the level the politicians and social media would suggest
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On 29 April, weāre bringing together the most ambitious builders for Australiaās first Codex Hackathon š¦šŗ
Build something in a single afternoon that wouldnāt be possible without Codex.
~$200K USD in credits & subscriptions up for grabs.
Weāll bring the tokens and vibes āØ - see you there.
Link below š
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Haters: "Show me the data"
*Show them the data*
Haters: "That's too complicated, I can't understand it. It must be wrong and you're just trying to trick me."
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Itās called the Freelancer Moonshot Innovation Program.
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Murray Hurps retweeted
Today 6pm AEDT Iāll be jumping on r/Australian Reddit for an AMA. Iāll be covering off Labor policy, my ministerial work, economics more broadly or the simple joys (and pains) of long-distance running reddit.com/r/australian/commā¦
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Transparency matters. Thatās why weāre moving to a single, public register so Australians can see who really owns and controls our companies. A clearer picture means stronger accountability and less room for financial crime ministers.treasury.gov.au/miā¦ #auspol
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Innovation isnāt just about traditional breakthroughs, itās also about broadening who gets to be a founder. Closing Australiaās innovation gap means more women and diverse entrepreneurs turning ideas into enterprises. My @SmartCompany op-ed: andrewleigh.com/opinion_piecā¦ #auspol
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Glad to see the focus. Reform the SIV to factor in innovation. The people at UTS can help you @AlboMP talk to @Murray and unlike the VC constraints so anyone can be one.
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With an average addressable market size of $441B and a 10-year commercialisation horizon, #DeepTech startups are solving humanityās most pressing challenges while reshaping global industries.
Our portfolio is leading the charge:
š Uluu: Turning seaweed into biodegradable polymers to replace plastics.
š± @loambio: Transforming carbon farming with microbial technology.
š¤ @RiosCorporation: Builds AI agent platforms for automating manufacturing processes.
š @GilmourSpace: Revolutionising small satellite launches with hybrid rockets.
These ventures are shaping the future across AI, healthcare, decarbonisation, and advanced manufacturingāthe key sectors spotlighted in this yearās @startupmuster report.
Dive into the insights in the thread below. š
Murray Hurps retweeted
Iām building a data tool on the 45+ looking at particular metrics like health, housing, care needs, and income. This is to understand 52% of Australian voters aged 45+. Hereās info on Dickson QLD @PrimeLifeP @DicksonDecides @SuDharmapala @dinksella @JaneCaro @simonahac #auspol
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Port Macquarie! We can't wait to hang out - Oct 15 events.humanitix.com/spark-mā¦
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Excited to see the impact Amplify can make, and well done @PaulBassat!
Public discourse still living in the broadcast age
amplifyaus.org/whats-the-poiā¦
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"You can't improve what you don't measure" is a truism in the startup industry.
If you're in the Australian startup industry, I can't overstate the importance of taking a few minutes out of your day to answer a few questions in the startupmuster.com/ annual national survey.
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"There is now broad recognition that government must play an active role in creating a more inclusive & dynamic knowledge-driven economy, to address the increasingly interconnected challenges of #productivity & #climatechange" My piece @ceda_news ceda.com.au/newsandresourcesā¦ #FMiA
Murray Hurps retweeted
More a love letter to books than a list of favourites, Michiko Kakutani's "Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread" left me with oodles of ideas for future reading harpercollins.com.au/9780008ā¦ @michikokakutani
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Our ecosystem needs more people like @AnnieLiao_2000 in it to succeed.
What she's created at Build Club is nothing short of amazing.
Hi Tracey, I'm the founder of @the_builderclub pictured here. I agree that more can be done and I am personally always try to do better to support this but do also want to provide a more complete picture of what has happened. I am going to stand up for myself and what we have built too.
- build club is one of the most diverse and inclusive grassroots communities out there and i've always placed a emphasis on this from a personal mission standpoint. we have a tight knit women in ai club and have run mini initiatives like intimate dinners but we don't publicize them. tldr, I feel this picture doesn't represent us
- for this accelerator in particular, it was a pipeline issue not selection bias, we only had 3 predominantly women team apply. Only one was not accepted on a merit basis as they were not sure about committing to their startup. I extended applications for 1 week and stayed up post 12am to try find candidates
- 5/7 of the judges on the evening were women, and some of the most amazing leaders I know.
- 2/5 of the teams flying to SF are women led or have women in their core team (the picture above was not representative of this and cropped)
build club is one of the most inclusive communities out there and as a solo women founder it also hurts me to see it portrayed this way.
I'm supportive of the cause but also want to share my side of this and hope you can understand. I am actively working on this too and would love any support and to see how we can work togetherš
Here are more pictures from the night:
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Exciting news: Australia's largest charitable foundation, the Paul Ramsay Foundation, is running a $2.1 million grant round for experimental evaluations of social impact programs. More here: paulramsayfoundation.org.au/ā¦ #randomistas #auspol #ausecon @EvidenceComm @JonBaronforMD
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āWeāve got to encourage people as much as possible to break out & to do something that actually makes a difference,ā says @UTS_Business @ProfCarlRhodes, highlighting how #businessresearch can contribute to reducing inequality & make positive #socialimpact.
timeshighereducation.com/newā¦
