"Rohan McLeod" <rhn@jeack.com.au>

The Australia market is tiny; so obviously an export orientation is vital; but smaller nations than Australia seem to manage. As a 'sometime' aspiring inventor my sense is that the Australian venture capital market is quite unsophisticated compared to say; that in California.

Food for thought: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/new-zealand-edges-ahead-of-australi... --- "NZ's digital economy contributed $2 billion in exports last year and as four New Zealand start-ups prepare to list on the NZ stock exchange - Gentrack, Serko, Orion Health, Vista Entertainment - twice as many as last year, Australian entrepreneurs are wondering exactly what they put in the water." .. "When asked if it would have achieved the same success if launched in Australia, the response from Richardson was emphatic: "Not a chance," he said. "I love the play-hard-globally attitude of the country." ... "There's only 4.5 million people in the country. We don't have the distraction here of a buoyant resources sector so we've had a government focused on saying what's happening in the next 40 to 50 years," --- Regards Peter