In this week’s show we worship at the the altar of Mark Pesce … and have a chat about the Government’s proposed mandatory ISP filtering. We talk about the technical and social aspects of implementing a law like this, what effect it could have on Australian tech innovation as well as the way that Twitter [...]

 

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Martin Hosking has to be one of Australia’s best success stories in creating a vibrant and growing web community with Red Bubble.

RedBubble.com founders Martin Hosking, Peter Styles and Paul Vanzella Photo: Australian Anthill magazine.
Martin is also one of those rare (in the Australian scene atleast) web veterans, having been previously involved in LookSmart, he is [...]

 

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This week we caught up with Melboune Based Steve Sammartino, founder of Rentoid.com.

Rentoid was founded 12 months ago as an online marketplace to connect people who want to rent items. The business is cashflow positive and in led by Steve who has a background in marketing.
In the episode we discuss:
- his background
- Rentoid: its background [...]

 

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In this week’s show we chat to Matthew Macfarlane one of the partners in a new investment fund - Yuuwa
Capital - which will concentrate on IT and Life Science oriented start-ups.

Yuuwa - made up of Matt and two other partners - were recently successful in their application for $20 million of matching Federal Government [...]

 

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