Power in your hands, which he did two Australians
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SWITCHcam website is currently concentrating on concerts, and there are dozens already available, ranging from the set Gotye at Coachella this year to run John Mayer at the Hollywood Bowl in 2010.
But Welch, 29, says the website of the approach to the sport and news around August or September. SWITCHcam aims to provide a ground level view of events, like the spring and the Arab riots in London.With 72 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube , is never to machine operators.
will also attract the attention of the big brands and organizers of concerts. Recently licensed its technology to the South American giant beer Skol, which used for a large music festival in Brazil.
Welch says, the “magician”, the algorithm that powers SWITCHcam Chris Hartley, also 29, a friend of Welch, who left a job at Macquarie Bank’s $ 150,000 salary to take a wages $ 0 to start developing up-country. Decrypt
And “much more difficult than programming a computer, the YouTube clips together and then connects them to the viewer to see the entire event smoothly. But Hartley was perhaps the only technology to recognize the ability to develop after work for encryption algorithms military sonar systems before trading algorithms for the financial sector.” Frankly, there are probably fewer than five people in the world that has created this system, and is one of them ” says Welch.
Hartley says, are seeing the possibility of his knowledge of the media room and jumped head first. “I wanted to take control of the” swing for the fences’ are my destiny, and as they say in Silicon Valley, “he says. “I’m happier than if I did, just north of $ 150K to work on the man. As a cog in the machine does not work for me.” Fairfax Media SWITCHcam visited just before receiving the injection of $ 1.2 million of funding if they were just a team of three people. appear in Episode 4 of the digital dreamer that this site launched today. Welch has lived in San Francisco since 2009, when the startup has with other Australian Bardia Housman, Business Catalyst has been nicknamed by the software giant Adobe acquired in 2009 worked. It encapsulates the three “basic things” Silicon Valley offers ent repreneurs who are hard to find in Australia. Talent, advice and funding“I do not mean that there are talented people in Australia, it is, but the talent that is prevalent in the U.S. a bit” more willing to jump in Basa on a passion to take a pay cut working for justice – in Australia, which is a bit “is more rare,” says
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Welch says that the people in Australia were generally risk averse, and start-ups are risky by nature, so many of our best and brightest minds to stay in Australia to take a pay raise and to work for one of the big banks large and choose instead to join a start-up.
“The second thing is a tip, there are a lot of people here who have similar businesses who will be able to give me tips on what I would have to SWITCHcam to scale as the business, how do you sell to give different brands, the people I worked with ESPN and Disney.“This is a known quantity and is less here in Australia. The market here is much bigger, so you always have access to a wider group of people.
“And the last thing is the funding, it is much easier to get financing angel good entrepreneur-friendly conditions in America.” Welch and Hartley with cash now, flushed, but when she started working at the counters have been at home and Welch Hartley set to sleep on the floor. Your post was so cold they had to work with the blankets over their knees. You are still working hard – “is pretty much 24/7″ – Welch and the ups and downs of life as a start-up as an “emotional rollercoaster”. What drives this unstoppable energy
in the face of such hard work?
“I know this is a trivial answer, but I really want to change the world … in my own little way,” says Welch.
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