Perth's startup scene is burgeoning but underfunded, with huge potential. The document discusses the history and growth of one startup business in Perth over 10 years that was eventually sold. It identifies issues like tax changes that impacted startups and notes that more funding is now needed to support the growing startup ecosystem in Perth and prevent promising ideas from leaving the state.

1. Perth’s Startup Scene
Burgeoning. Underfunded. Huge potential
Charlie Gunningham, CEO Business News

2. MBA Graduation, March 1999

3. 7 months later… Dec 1999
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Startup! (little did we know)

4. The West
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5. Business News
10 years later
… SOLD!
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6. Issues
2009 – Tax changes 
2012 – Locals turn on 
2014 – CA scrapped 
2015 –Accelerators, tax better, AC funds 

7. 1st comes the ecosystem …

8. … then comes the success stories,
then comes the investors

9. But some great ideas leave WA…

10. So what we need now is…
$ FUNDING! $
(Else the digital vikings will take us)

11. “Throw enough darts…”

12. Some targets…
businessnews.com.au/list/startups Techboard.com.au