Australian Startups Lure Silicon Valley Money
In November 2013, John Locke and Nate Niparko, two members of the investment team at the U.S. venture capital firm Accel Partners, got off a plane in Sydney and jumped in a taxi.
They told the driver to take them to Erina, a sleepy coastal town 57 miles north. Erina was an unlikely home of one of the world’s most popular invoicing apps for small businesses, Invoice2go, created by Chris Strode, a 40-year-old programmer with a passion for surfing. [Source: SMH]