+1 Elias
That's the point. Yes they might fail. Who cares. In the process we
might get some sort of tech hub going. What was the side effect to
ireland ? well lets go back a bit. Before the moves, ireland was
poor. quite poor. You did uni, got a green card thanks to clinton
and the
On 04/12/2010, at 10:35 AM, Elias Bizannes elias.bizan...@gmail.com wrote:
I never said Google moved for the tax breaks; I used that example to
point out the impact their presence has had on the Sydney startup
scene.
The fact a lot of companies are using Singapore as their regional
I may be missing something but don't we already have lots of tech
multinationals in Australia who employees tens (if not hundreds) of thousands
people?
And while Ireland and Singapore have been mentioned as models to follow, no one
has mentioned any Irish or Singaporean start-ups that have
IMHO the strength of Australia is lifestyle. That is the only thing we
have over other places - that Sydney is a world city on a Harbour and
with lots of Beaches (and the other major cities are great as well).
The other stuff (Language, proximity to Asia, Culture) is all a wash -
lifestyle is
