Enabling innovation and entrepreneurship in rural and remote communities.

Startup Tablelands is a Social Enterprise to collaboratively create an organisation delivering programs that give Tablelanders an entrepreneurial mindset, skill set & opportunity.

Why?

1. We now live in a globalised economy which has changed the way we do business
2. Technology & the internet are creating unprecedented change and disrupting traditional industry – everywhere (including the Tablelands)
3. This is creating record high youth unemployment
4. Compounded by dying and localised industries

Background

What is Startup and what is a Startup Weekend?

The Startup “movement”:

• Began in Silicon Valley and has spread worldwide as a set of new business precepts for the 21st century such that business can rise to the challenges of the disruptions and changes especially evident since the turn of the Millennium.
• The details of those business precepts and their application is largely what ST proposes to teach, with a minimum of theory and a large dose of practical application as well as mentoring and continuing support mechanisms (egg mastermind or self-coaching groups).

Startup Weekends:

• are weekend-long, low cost, high intensity experiences where aspiring entrepreneurs are exposed to startup methodology in a hands-on process.
• For further info: http://startupweekend.org/about/

Startup Tablelands Primary Objectives:

1. Long term:  start to build a Tablelands entrepreneurial ecosystem that is eventually sustainable and has the ability to substantially contribute to the Tablelands economy.
2. Create a new base for job creation, employment, commercialisation and investment across the Tablelands.
3. Build capacity for running events, mentoring, and coaching as well as for lean startup methodology and the commercialisation of innovation/inventions.
4. Partner strongly within MSC and TRC.
5. Partner broadly across the region as resources allow, even nationally to the degree of our capacity.
6. Specific goals for 2016:
   • Be the Australian host for the global Future Agro Challenge (FAC)
   • Run many and varied lead-in programs/workshops/events in both MSC and TRC before November.
   • Schedule several presentations to inform the public and institutions about ST and about Startup and Innovation in general. Run a supportive and coordinated follow-up program after SWT#2 for the remainder of 2016.
   • Complete training for 2-8 Startup Champions from the ST Driver Team and, hopefully, from the incipient startup and better developed innovation/inventor community locally.  Training to be delivered by TheSPACE Cairns founder Troy Haines:  Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Regional Australia.
   • Increase ST Driver and wider team capacity in collaboration as well as in all startup and innovation methodologies.

Contact Startup Tablelands;

[email protected]

https://www.startuptablelands.org

Christine Doan: 0419 656 247 or  Jessica Fealy: 0408 904 299