Yesterday was packed and today is the start of the intense period that is the MIT Bootcamp! I am just hours away from meeting my fellow boot campers at the QUT Gardens Point. Most of them, coming here from all over the world, are already in Brisbane the Whatsapp group is awash with FOMO inducing pictures. But I, as the anti-social local, have to wait to join the fun. So what did I do instead?

River City Labs Friday Open House Drinks and Pitches

I forgot to take pictures, so here’s one featuring me from the River City Labs Facebook! That’s me holding a Red Bull Cola… I didn’t know they made Cola either!

The pitch was a big event for my CEO at JOSARI, Paul Buckwell, who pitched JOSARI to drum up some publicity as we get ready to launch the iOS version this month! We got some good questions during the Q&A. I’ll write more about JOSARI to mark the launch. So watch out for that!

Little Tokyo Two End of Month Drinks

I left the RCL pitch event straight after pitches, and apparently, I missed out on a TV crew showing up, because I wanted to at least show my face at the Little Tokyo Two end of month drinks. Yes, I realised that yesterday was the start of the month, but scheduling is never perfect.

So I attended my first LT2 drinks, they only had hard liquor so I couldn’t drink anything. But that’s okay; I had fun getting to know some of my fellow co-working space users. As I was going up to the rooftop, I ran into Hallie Wang from ACIC. She was putting up posters for the Pitching to China 2019-Australian Startups Breaking into the Chinese Market event. So I decided to drop by for that!

Pitching to China 2019-Australian Startups Breaking into the Chinese Market

The event was mostly an information session about what ACIC does, and they had a panel discussion with the startups that went to China last year. There were some familiar names, Codebots (who I first came across way back in 2017), Happy Dinosaur ( who were in the iLab demo day), and BOP Industries (who were in the Collider demo day), all of whom I have posted about before. I couldn’t stay for the panel as I wanted to get some rest ahead of the start of the MIT Bootcamp today. But I did get a lot of useful information and will keep the ACIC in mind for the future.

So it was a packed day, and it’s only going to be more packed as I start the Bootcamp in a few hours. I’ll be posting on Twitter, and Instagram during the Bootcamp. So follow those to keep abreast of what I get up to what is likely to be a long, exhausting week!