I can only comment on 3 of the mentors (only 3 I have met or can remember) but Bart Jellema is the real deal, and quite a nice bloke to boot. Catherine Eibner is pleasant and friendly (runs the BizSpark stuff), and Nikki Durkin seems to have a great deal of talent towards business ideas marketed towards women (if you are looking at that demographic go talk to her).
Its nice to see something geared towards Aussies though, as frankly software houses are ignored by our governments (grants and tax breaks) and by the online press. Only Atlassian springs to mind as a hot Aussie software company and even they get very little coverage as far as I can see.
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I can only comment on 3 of the mentors (only 3 I have met or can remember) but Bart Jellema is the real deal, and quite a nice bloke to boot. Catherine Eibner is pleasant and friendly (runs the BizSpark stuff), and Nikki Durkin seems to have a great deal of talent towards business ideas marketed towards women (if you are looking at that demographic go talk to her).
Its nice to see something geared towards Aussies though, as frankly software houses are ignored by our governments (grants and tax breaks) and by the online press. Only Atlassian springs to mind as a hot Aussie software company and even they get very little coverage as far as I can see.