A big thank you to Susanne Schantz and Matthew Van Rooijen for coming along and teaching us through creative examples just how effective video and animation can be compared with the old school communication methods.

They demonstrated some interesting and differing styles that explainer video professionals are using in what’s clearly a trendy and growing industry.

It was great to see so many fresh faces keen to connect with other like minded entrepreneurial types in a casual b2b (beer 2 beer) environment.

Stay posted for more similar events soon that will help you explore your passion for business startups!

Startup Tas will now host guest speakers, Susanne Schantz and Matthew van Rooijen from Small Island Studio, at our next ‘Shots’ meet up next Thursday the 7th of March at Preachers instead of this Thursday at The Typewriter Factory.

Come, network with startup entrepreneurs, have a tasty beverage and get a free insight into how video and animation can be very effective marketing tools to convert consumers. What a night!

The video pitch experts will show you some clips, explain what works, what doesn’t as well as give you an idea into production costs and more. Bring along any questions you have, I’m sure they’ll be happy to help.

So what are you waiting for, rsvp today at meetup.com/StartupTasmania, get amongst the Tassie startup scene and be inspired to get off your butt and create the next big thing!

I thought we’d spice breakfast up by putting a few talented entrepreneurs on the spot and requesting an impromptu elevator pitch from both Byron and Matt. Byron started and pitched his latest venture Soscribe which overflowed with that abundant energy we all want more of. Matt Jones of Explainer Video’s then pitched his thus far very successful 60 second video pitch production startup that has featured on the likes on the Gruen Transfer.

Our next meet up is on Jan 31st at Preachers at 5pm for after work shots. The week following on Feb 4th, we’re lucky enough to have Robin Fieldhouse speak to us about his specialty area: Intellectual Property Commercialisition (details to come). Get excited, be inspired and get cracking into Tassie’s growing startup scene!

About the Author: Tim Polmear is the event manager for Startup Tasmania. He is interested in everything about entrepreneurial web-based Startups. Feel free to drop Tim a line at tim@startuptasmania.com

2013 is set to be a big year for Startup Tasmania as we strive to foster entrepreneurship in Tasmania. Our aim is to inspire and educate you at events where entrepreneurs and lovers of business will tell you all about their decisions, failures and wins that they’ve experienced in their entrepreneurial journey.

To pull these events together, we welcome Tim Polmear who will spend Thursdays at the Startup Tasmania office (The Typewriter Factory – Level 3, 13-17 Castray Explanade, Battery Point). Tim brings with him a genuine passion for the startup scene as well as marketing and business experience that see’s him spend a lot of time on the whiteboard and on the ground. Feel free to contact Tim at tim@startuptasmania.com with any questions or event ideas you may have.

Join us for breakfast tomorrow morning at Jam Jar from 7:45am and network with the amazing people behind some of Tasmania’s most innovative businesses!

In 2013, we’re going to be building up a Startup Tasmania events calendar for our members in the north of the state.  To start with, we’re going to be running Startup Tasmania Shots sessions in Launceston every month.

These sessions will be a casual networking event for local entrepreneurs, innovators and anyone else to have a few drinks in good company.  The sessions in Hobart have been really successful and we’re looking forward to growing a similarly vibrant and active community in the north.

The first session will be on the 10th of January, 5pm, at The Manhattan Wine Bar (81 York Street).  Subsequent meet ups will be at the same time and place, on the first Thursday of every month.

The events calendar will be the same in Hobart and Launceston.  So, if you find yourself at the opposite end of the state on the first Thursday, you can drop in on the local event and meet the community.

All of our events will continue to be announced through the Startup Tasmania Meet Up Page.  That’s the best place to keep up to date with what’s coming up in your part of the state.

This is all put of a bigger emphasis on the north for the Startup Tasmania crew this year.  If you want to give us any feedback on how we’re doing in the north, events you would like to attend, services you would like to see or anything else with a northern focus, you can now contact the northern crew directly on north@startuptasmania.com.  We would love to hear from you.

That’s it from the northern team for now.  We’ll be looking forward to seeing some new faces at the on the 10th.  See you there!

About the Author: James Riggall is a Board Member of Startup Tasmania. He is an experienced technology consultant. He has worked at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITLab) for a number of years, as well as running his own IT support, development and consulting company, Bitlink. James is on Twitter! You can follow him via @jamesriggall

This is a $12.50 per person event as we will be providing delicious bakery and espresso coffee for breakfast. 

Our president, Oliver George, will take the opportunity to talk about where we are and more importantly the exciting news about where we will be heading in 2013.

We invite all current, past and potential Startup Tasmania members to join us in celebrating 2012 and getting pumped for 2013!

Come join us and network with the amazing people behind some of Hobart’s most exciting startups and innovative businesses!

To ensure sufficient catering for the event, please book your tickets early through Eventbrite.

About the Author: Byron Teu is one of the co-founders of Startup Tasmania. He is a serial entrepreneur and is addicted to building Startups. Byron is on Twitter! You can follow him via @byronteu

So once again, we’ll be having our casual afterwork networking session at the Preachers Quarry Salamanca. They always look after us so we thought we should share some love back.

Do come along and join us for some beers, wines, softies, and more importantly, meet other startup entrepreneurs, and plan world domination! (Click  here to RSVP and for more details about time as well as venue)

Whatever it is, we can all drink to your successes and workshop those opportunities over a few cold ones.

On top of all that, there’s also lots to update about Startup Tasmania’s exciting future, developments and budding relationships with exciting entrepreneur movements in our wonderful Island State!

Besides, we might also run some short 30 second pitch practice sessions depending if there’s enough people putting their hands up for it on the day.

Either way, we would love to see you this Thursday, and it would be great if you could RSVP yourself and your +1(s) so we could effectively plan activities and space reservations accordingly.

Alrighty then… that’s all from me for now. Cheerio and we sure look forward to see you at Preachers the Quarry Salamanca around 5pm this Thursday!

About the Author: Byron Teu is one of the co-founders of Startup Tasmania. He is a serial entrepreneur and is addicted to building Startups. Byron is on Twitter! You can follow him via @byronteu