Re: [SiliconBeach] IT sector? Australia doesn’t ne ed it, claims Reserve Bank

2010-10-24 Thread Jonathan Clarke
Interesting the line that different countries are taking I believe Ireland is the only country with a stand devoted to Irish startups at Le Web in Paris.. http://www.web2ireland.org/2010/10/23/ireland-to-exhibit-at-le-web-2010/ Hundreds of Australian startups in the sector would disagree wit

Re: [SiliconBeach] IT sector? Australia doesn’t ne ed it, claims Reserve Bank

2010-10-24 Thread Rob Manson
Only an economist would try to draw such a strong and obviously artificial line between IT producers and consumers. The lesson from the dot-com bubble wasn't that IT isn't important...it was that new technology ventures need to actually create real value! roBman On 25/10/2010, at 4:18 PM, Re