How do we make Melbourne an Entrepreneurial City?

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Marigo Raftopoulos

Open more co-working spaces

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno Thank you, if I ever relocate to Melbourne Ill definitely catch up on all these places regularly. Fishburners has an open desk option but its quite limited and not with the same mentallity behind.
16 November 2012 04:50 pm

Eyal Halamish And if you want to come to Hub Melbourne let me know. Thursday mixed bag lunches are a great time and place to connect with other entrepreneurs
16 November 2012 03:34 pm

Eyal Halamish There is Hub Melbourne here: http://hubmelbourne.com/ check it out.
16 November 2012 02:58 pm

Marigo Raftopoulos

Free wifi in the City of Melbourne

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno National Broadband Network? Diana works there.
16 November 2012 04:57 pm

Eyal Halamish I think we can partner with NBN co to launch this. Many grants out there for this...although they are primarily focussed on rural areas.
16 November 2012 03:34 pm

Adelle Lin Nbn costs so much
16 November 2012 02:51 pm

Nikash Anand

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Eyal Halamish Thanks Colin
16 November 2012 04:41 pm

Colin Simpson Oh bravo
16 November 2012 04:24 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Nice one Eyal.
16 November 2012 03:42 pm

Marigo Raftopoulos

Enable more start-up weekends

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Eyal Halamish Yes, Neis is still thriving. Link it to every start-up winning i the weekend gets direct entry into neis without any paperwork.
16 November 2012 04:41 pm

Colin Simpson I try to spend my first pomodoro on arriving at work on my projects. Little by little
16 November 2012 04:27 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno In the end, we have to ask ourselves, what's the plan of action? What are the concrete, solid steps we are going to take to get our ideas to fruition? Sometimes it's easy to think "I will work on this outstanding idea once I've finished my urgent commitments, and of course that time never comes". It'd be great to hear other people's plans for actions for their out-of-the ordinary activities.
16 November 2012 02:42 pm

Adam Katana

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Eyal Halamish one finger clapping
16 November 2012 04:41 pm

Colin Simpson One hand clapping
16 November 2012 04:27 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Absolutely mind blowing indeed.
16 November 2012 03:42 pm

Adrian Camm

The creation of more services for mentoring, networking and counselling for those in the 'start-up' space

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Eyal Halamish I found my mentor through Centre for Sustainability Leadership. More programs like these.
16 November 2012 04:42 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno I've always heard so many comments from entrepeneurs on how important mentorship is. I haven't seen a network that tackles this nicely yet.
16 November 2012 03:43 pm

Colin Simpson Perhaps also similar support for small business seeking to expand
15 November 2012 10:22 pm

Sam de Silva

Knight Challenge (http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/about) like opportunities for people living in Melbz

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Eyal Halamish Check out omidyar as well. country specific though.
16 November 2012 04:42 pm

Eyal Halamish Especially good if you are in media in developing countries.
16 November 2012 04:42 pm

Colin Simpson Holy cow, that's a lot of money. Will have to keep an eye out for the next round
16 November 2012 11:15 am

Dan Donahoo

We can continue to build on our diverse and multicultural communities. Innovation comes when different ideas and ways of thinking collide. The strong differences between cultural apporaches can be a dynamic space where there is tension and fundamental concepts can be challenged. Melbourne needs to make sure it doesn't become a "stuff white people like" space, but maximises the rich cultural differences that we have and find ways to bring those cultures together to explore ideas, challenge each other and be enterprising in our regard for each other.

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Eyal Halamish Tapping into multicultural community leaders will be key here.
16 November 2012 04:43 pm

Colin Simpson First suggestion I've seen that doesn't necessarily involve expecting state or local govt to subsidise business.
15 November 2012 09:51 pm

Stanley Yip

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Eyal Halamish Add tramsessions to that.
16 November 2012 04:43 pm

Colin Simpson Quiet carriages on trains. Nice idea Stanley
16 November 2012 04:28 pm

Hamish Curry

By investing time & money into the 'sweet dividends of prudent ingenuity' :)

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Eyal Halamish How do we make sure that happens? Standards? or certifications?
16 November 2012 04:44 pm

Colin Simpson Not funding rash ideas?
16 November 2012 04:29 pm

Eyal Halamish I recall this from an earlier talk. What does this mean for Melbourne, Hamish?
16 November 2012 03:35 pm

Dominic Soh

By offering grants, funding and visa options for those who desire to create startups in Melbourne.

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Eyal Halamish Maybe we need government agencies which sponsor overseas excellent people like JC and chooses to keep them here as innovators of the government?
16 November 2012 04:45 pm

Colin Simpson Can you do that on a student visa at all?
16 November 2012 04:30 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno You mention Visa. As someone who is still under a very temporary visa I have to say how hard and obtuse it has been to find a way to stay and continue contributing and participating in the game development community in Australia, specially because all these kind of things usually revolve around individuals and small groups that have escaped the clutches of big corporations to freely explore innovative and pioneering spaces, so they are in positions that are impossible to sponsor.
16 November 2012 02:52 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

There is so much value and motivation to be gained from meeting and talking with like-minded individuals. Technology is of course the basis of much of our lives, but in terms of entrepreneurship the human factor is king I think, and for this I commend Games4Change!

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Eyal Halamish Someone asked me if games cause obesity and violence....i think not! have a look around.
16 November 2012 04:45 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Aha nice words Stanley, we are definitely not in a stage where any of that can be replaced. Ha, Ivo is just mentioning in his talk how important closeness is to people in any sort of interaction.
16 November 2012 02:06 pm

Colin Simpson Seeing the life outside the cocoon. Definitely.
16 November 2012 11:18 am

Jeremy de Constantin

Does our school education system foster entrepreneurship? Do we tolerate failure in Aust., an inevitability of entrepreneurship? Do we revere our entrepreneurs or do we drag them down once successful? How many Faculties of Entrepreneurship do we have at our universities cf. the US? That's it for the questions but they do need addressing... I believe.

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno For example, my failure at the game now, Cmon JC! It has to be a positive experience! :D
16 November 2012 05:00 pm

Eyal Halamish Most success comes from failure. Our biggest failures are what lead to the best games and products. check out mr. jobs.
16 November 2012 04:46 pm

Jeremy de Constantin You guys have sparked an idea for me wherein we could through games make failure quite OK. I remember I was doing some work at Ball State's Entrepreneurial Faculty some time ago. They loved to hear from entrepreneurs who had failed. Can we gamify for failure to be OK?
16 November 2012 04:07 pm

Adelle Lin

Setting up a local kickstarter it the like

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Eyal Halamish check out dosomething as another fundraising place for social enterprise projects.
16 November 2012 04:47 pm

Eyal Halamish Or set up a local pozible campaign.
16 November 2012 04:47 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno And as a related question, what can a local service like this offer to compete against a kickstarter that is going global?
15 November 2012 02:40 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

At the talk about the hero's journey. I think entrepeneurship shares a lot of similarities with being a hero, finding allies, gathering tools and weapons, risk taking and conquering obstacles. Everyone is a lead of their own story and entrepreneurship is a beautiful way to accent that.

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Eyal Halamish How do you apply the hero's journey to an individual getting involved in the political process?
16 November 2012 04:48 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno I thought that was indeed a great tool, and I used it! But again I just stopped using it since my interest moved to new things, I'm aware this is a personal problem, but by interacting with it I have learned a lot and hope to put together something outstanding to combat it. Constant engagement is the biggest challenge.
16 November 2012 03:17 pm

Colin Simpson You might like to check out Jane McGonigal's SuperBetter for that. great tool for that
16 November 2012 02:46 pm

Andrew Hiskens

Build on the notion of libraries as co-working spaces (which they've always been) to create libraries of ideas. We could call the initiative 'half an idea' because it is about creating environments where my bit of an idea could merge with your bit of an idea and the person over there's bit of an idea - to make something new, viable and do-able...

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Eyal Halamish Libraries are co-working spaces, but they are also great gaming spaces. State Library media room is where all the teens like to drop-in
16 November 2012 04:48 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno It is very interesting -specially with Hamish's talk - that libraries can change their image from archaic, silent, and rusty places into vibrant, modern and fun environments for creation and cooperation.
15 November 2012 04:02 pm

Colin Simpson

Dragon's Den style entrepreneur/investor speed dating events

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Eyal Halamish What can we add to this speed dating to make it fresh?
16 November 2012 04:49 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno I was in one like that as part of the vivid festival in Sydney, tho it was focused around film, it still had all the mechanics of two circles facing each other and changing partners every minute, it was great!
16 November 2012 03:15 pm

Colin Simpson

It's funny that we aren't really considering more game oriented approaches - how about an XPrize series of competitions run to help businesses or the city solve problems that would normally just get farmed out to consultants?

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Eyal Halamish Some of the co-working spaces are good places to launch this out of. So many creative minds working as sole practitioners looking for other loners to partner with.
16 November 2012 04:50 pm

Colin Simpson Identifying the problems would be the first question. (And finding the money)
16 November 2012 11:22 am

Marigo Raftopoulos I love this idea! Anyone interested in looking into this further?
16 November 2012 07:09 am

Eyal Halamish

Use wifi connectivity to mix cultures. Really good wifi in areas which are less tech saavy and vice versa. Let's get the elite yuppies connecting in newly arrived immigrant areas and sharing internet marvels.

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Colin Simpson Sounds like the nbn rollout
16 November 2012 05:08 pm

Eyal Halamish I was thinking you could de-gentrify an area. Imagine if sunshine, where a lot of new migrants live, was the best place in town to get wifi.
16 November 2012 04:50 pm

Eyal Halamish Kinda like a better place model
16 November 2012 04:50 pm

Colin Simpson

Pretty much everything that Peter Williams said with a focus on the Y Combinator approach

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Colin Simpson As long as they benefit
16 November 2012 05:07 pm

Eyal Halamish get corporates to build a game and they'll change their entire take on gaming.
16 November 2012 04:51 pm

Eyal Halamish I liked the creative destruction game design at the beginning.
16 November 2012 04:51 pm

Eyal Halamish

Scarcity drives innovation in

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Eyal Halamish well, not in saudi arabia. but other new budding arab countries.
16 November 2012 04:52 pm

Eyal Halamish i think the scarcity can breed innovation though. water scarcity and energy scarcity have shown this, especially in the middle east.
16 November 2012 04:52 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Or extinction sadly, I guess in the broad sense, scarcity is a limitation , and like any other, it brings creativity forward. I just hope we can do enough and fast enough to get the best outcome,
16 November 2012 03:58 pm

Colin Simpson

how about an innovation expo or festival - show people that there is a lot to celebrate. Maybe at The Royal Melbourne Show?

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JC "oddgoo" Moreno Hah, futurama did come to mind. It's just perfect.
16 November 2012 04:41 pm

Colin Simpson Futurama
16 November 2012 04:23 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno On second thought, Future-con sounds too cheesy, I like Nova's branding on their scientific and futurology programme. a
16 November 2012 03:55 pm

Eyal Halamish

Get corporates to work out of co-working spaces once a week.

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Colin Simpson What's in it for them?
16 November 2012 05:06 pm

Eyal Halamish if the vibe and innovaiton is cool, the corporates start to come...so i've seen.
16 November 2012 04:53 pm

Eyal Halamish yeah, that's what you see with places like inspire 9 and hub melbourne.
16 November 2012 04:52 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

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Colin Simpson Chatting works
16 November 2012 05:06 pm

Eyal Halamish Should we go play this game? or should we keep chattin here?
16 November 2012 04:53 pm

Eyal Halamish how good is keita's speech?
16 November 2012 04:53 pm

Eyal Halamish

Design multi-purpose buildings. Every facility has to have at least three purposes (e.g. laundromat, bar and dog training facility)

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Eyal Halamish for example, before the government gives you approval, you need to show plans for how the space will be a multi-purpose space and what hours it will do what (i.e. from 9-10 it will be a laundromat, the rest of the time it will be a bar).
16 November 2012 04:54 pm

Eyal Halamish yes, to get a building approval, you need to prove the building can be and will be used for multiple purposes.
16 November 2012 04:54 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno Care to elaborate?
16 November 2012 03:52 pm

Jeremy de Constantin

Why not encourage our corporates to appoint a new role on their senior leadership team - CPO (Chief Problem Officer) only because COO (Chief Opportunity Officer) is already taken :)

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Jeremy de Constantin Chief Answers Officer or Chief Solutions Officer...hmm. Too many entrepreneurs (not only entrepreneurs) jump in without doing basic fact finding and go straight to solutions; so for me better Chief Problem Officer who surfaces problems then gets others together to generate great solutions.
16 November 2012 07:08 pm

Colin Simpson Chief answers officer
16 November 2012 05:05 pm

Eyal Halamish Who creates solution creating solutions?
16 November 2012 04:55 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno

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Colin Simpson Agreed
16 November 2012 05:05 pm

JC "oddgoo" Moreno GG everyone, there is no point being produced on this end anymore :(.
16 November 2012 04:58 pm