Silicon Beach

California has Silicon Valley. Sydney's got Silicon Beach. Where would you rather live?

Joshua Gliddon has his first page one in today's AFR - go get a copy! He's grabbled hold of the "Silicon Beach" moniker coined by Tilefile's David Bollinger.

I'll tell you why this is a big story. There's truckloads of money available for web startups in Australia if they've got a good business model. But many of the new companies Joshua quotes (such as Atlassian, Tangler, Quotify and the Freshview boys pictured on page 1 with their surf boards) are building companies with real revenues and real customers. That's a good story now, but think about what value they are creating for the future. Any potential M&A activity will be grounded in discussions about real numbers and not just pie-in-the-sky evaluations.

And in case you're wondering, the idea for this yarn surfaced when I met these guys at Stirr Sydney.

Comments

[Dave Greiner]

Thanks again for passing our details on Mark, just checked out Joshua's article and it looks great. The phone hasn't stopped ringing.

[Mark Jones]

Shh, don't tell anyone Dave... some people still read newspapers... ; )

[Nik Cubrilovic]

Sorry to spoil the party guys but Wollongong is the *real* Silicon Beach :)

Great article btw.

the correct spelling is Bolliger