Software Startups - from Australia to the U.S.A. with Rob Castaneda - SSW TV - Learn from Professional Software Developers

Adam Cogan sits down with Rob Castaneda to discuss the process of moving to America from Australia to start his company, ServiceRocket.

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About the speakers

Rocket Man

Rob is the Founder and CEO of ServiceRocket. He founded ServiceRocket in 2001 in Sydney and has since grown it with offices in Malaysia and Palo Alto along with Sydney, Australia.

He has been listed 3 times as one of Australia's top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 years of age and in 2009 was recognised with a regional 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award for services by Ernst & Young and is the Australian Chair for the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards - an annual competition encouraging student entrepreneurs around the world. He represented Australia at the G20 Summit for Youth Entrepreneurship in Toronto 2010.

Rob has been guest lecturing for a Masters course on Systems Integration at the University of Technology, Sydney since 2000. He has also co-authored, technically edited and contributed to several books including 'Enterprise Java Beans 2.1' and 'Thinking in Java'.

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