Murray Hurps

Director of Entrepreneurship for UTS. Advocate for Australian Entrepreneurship 🇦🇺 Formerly CEO Fishburners, Startup Muster, Ad Muncher, Westpac’s accelerator.

[Murray Hurps @Murray]

What’s really happening at @UTSEngage: https://t.co/A30KEo93AO #startupaus

[Mick Liubinskas @liubinskas]

AI research into housing affordability in Australia.

NSW has made zoning changes which will take 10 years

Phasing out negative gearing and taxing investment properties will help.

Immigration has had an impact but not at the level the politicians and social media would suggest

[Gabriel Chua @gabrielchua]

On 29 April, we’re bringing together the most ambitious builders for Australia’s first Codex Hackathon 🇦🇺

Build something in a single afternoon that wouldn’t be possible without Codex.

~$200K USD in credits & subscriptions up for grabs.

We’ll bring the tokens and vibes ✨ - see you there.

Link below 👇

[Mick Liubinskas @liubinskas]

Haters: "Show me the data"

*Show them the data*

Haters: "That's too complicated, I can't understand it. It must be wrong and you're just trying to trick me."

[Murray Hurps @Murray]

@ceibner Are you ok?

[Murray Hurps @Murray]

@kate_cooper Happens to everyone. For clarity, all unusual posts from me are just from me, unfortunately.

[Freelancer @freelancer]

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#Innovation #Moonshot #Enterprise #challenge

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

China now generates 40% more electricity than the US and EU combined.

[Murray Hurps @Murray]

Andrew you are an unstoppable force for good for Australia - thank you for your kind commentary on the new @startupmuster report, and everything else you do for the country.

[Andrew Leigh @ALeighMP]

Startup Muster 2025 captures the pace and personality of Australia’s startup scene. Launch speech: https://t.co/ycSPNIjdFi #auspol @Murray @LotFourteen

[Amaroo @amaroo_network]

https://t.co/oX9DrDCoUd

[Andrew Leigh @ALeighMP]

Today 6pm AEDT I’ll be jumping on r/Australian Reddit for an AMA. I’ll be covering off Labor policy, my ministerial work, economics more broadly or the simple joys (and pains) of long-distance running https://t.co/ejYNxjoe9r

[Andrew Leigh @ALeighMP]

Transparency matters. That’s why we’re moving to a single, public register so Australians can see who really owns and controls our companies. A clearer picture means stronger accountability and less room for financial crime https://t.co/RSH9T63daD #auspol

[Andrew Leigh @ALeighMP]

Innovation isn’t just about traditional breakthroughs, it’s also about broadening who gets to be a founder. Closing Australia’s innovation gap means more women and diverse entrepreneurs turning ideas into enterprises. My @SmartCompany op-ed: https://t.co/66ANcaP3fy #auspol

[The Start Society @StartSoc]

Glad to see the focus. Reform the SIV to factor in innovation. The people at UTS can help you @AlboMP talk to @Murray and unlike the VC constraints so anyone can be one.

[Main Sequence @MSeqVC]

With an average addressable market size of $441B and a 10-year commercialisation horizon, #DeepTech startups are solving humanity’s most pressing challenges while reshaping global industries.

Our portfolio is leading the charge:
🌊 Uluu: Turning seaweed into biodegradable polymers to replace plastics.
🌱 @loambio: Transforming carbon farming with microbial technology.
🤖 @RiosCorporation: Builds AI agent platforms for automating manufacturing processes.
🚀 @GilmourSpace: Revolutionising small satellite launches with hybrid rockets.

These ventures are shaping the future across AI, healthcare, decarbonisation, and advanced manufacturing—the key sectors spotlighted in this year’s @startupmuster report.

Dive into the insights in the thread below. 👇

[Annie E @[email protected] @ChiefDisrupter]

I’m building a data tool on the 45+ looking at particular metrics like health, housing, care needs, and income. This is to understand 52% of Australian voters aged 45+. Here’s info on Dickson QLD @PrimeLifeP @DicksonDecides @SuDharmapala @dinksella @JaneCaro @simonahac #auspol

[Spark Festival @sparkfestivalau]

Port Macquarie! We can't wait to hang out - Oct 15 https://t.co/20utxmmvAe

[Niki Scevak @nikiscevak]

Excited to see the impact Amplify can make, and well done @PaulBassat!

Public discourse still living in the broadcast age

https://t.co/WyQ0KrVLXI

[Murray Hurps @Murray]

Maybe “Artificial Entrepreneurship” instead… #ae #artificialentrepreneurship

[Murray Hurps @Murray]

Coining a new term: “Cloud Entrepreneurship” to describe the oncoming flood of low/no cost, AI-enabled new company creation methods. The coming years are going to be wild.

[alan jones @bigyahu]

"You can't improve what you don't measure" is a truism in the startup industry.

If you're in the Australian startup industry, I can't overstate the importance of taking a few minutes out of your day to answer a few questions in the https://t.co/1DKRFeIRG1 annual national survey.

[Murray Hurps @Murray]

@ChiefDisrupter 3% of startups in Startup Muster 2023 had applied to this, 0.7% had received it at the time of the survey. I’d love to see the analysis that showed it had no impact. Maybe they could have been more ambitious or easier to access 🤔