Just curious as to if there are any HN readers from NZ, and if they know of (or involved in) any startup's on the go down under?<p>I realise the NZ market is very small but I am eager to get into the startup industry and what better way than working/volunteering for one in my home country (unless someone can make some better suggestions to getting involved.. working remotely maybe...)
When you say market, you mean the size of your potential customer base as a percentage of New Zealand's population? I've thought of this, and New Zealand does have a small population, but the internet has a <i>large</i> population, and it is there that I shall establish my startup. If your product is digital, you can sell to anyone, no matter their distance.<p>I'm not in New Zealand now, but I expect to move there at year's end. (It's my wife's home.) I'll keep an eye on this thread, because I'm also interested in what the startup scene is like in New Zealand. It'd be nice to have a little preexisting knowledge of the industry when I got there.
Think local act global !
It worked for Weta Digital ! In case you didn't know Avatar SFX house. Also a lot of Harry Potter was filmed and SFX done in NZ.<p>I was brought up in NZ, but now live on West Island (Sydney, Oztrayla). If you create some sort of blog, etc let me know, I'll read it. Majority of my wife's family still live in NZ.<p>Cheers !
I'm from Dunedin, and we have a local group of web entrepreneurs called The Distiller (<a href="http://thedistiller.org/" rel="nofollow">http://thedistiller.org/</a>). I would imagine there would be something comperable in Wellington, given how many web based businesses exist there.