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what's up people welcome back to international if you have been following this channel for a while now you would know that i came to australia as an international student after studying for two years i applied for my temper residency and during my temper residency i worked full time as a digital marketing coordinator and that was required if i wanted to apply for my permanent residency and that's how i got my apartment residency but all this while what i really wanted to do was to grow and build my startup but i couldn't do because working full-time in marketing was a requirement that i needed to meet with in order to apply for my permanent residency and if i wanted to apply for entrepreneurship visa i needed to raise two hundred thousand dollars now in recent news the requirement to raise two hundred thousand dollars is gone and australia is looking for entrepreneurs from almost all across the world so if you're somebody who wants to come to australia and have a startup idea or an actual startup and you would like to grow and scale in australia then this video is just for you so check it out [Music] so first let's talk about what is entrepreneurship visa ing to home affairs website an entrepreneurship visa is for startup and early stage entrepreneurs who have been endorsed to develop their concepts and been nominated by a state or territory government agency now i understand that that is slightly confusing let me break that down for you so if you are an entrepreneur or you have a startup and you want to come to australia and build and scale that up you need to be endorsed by one of the authorized partners one of that is stone and chalk where we are sitting right now this visa the subclass is 188 e e stands for entrepreneurship stream and is a five year visa in this visa you'll also be eligible to get your partner if you have one or one of the eligible family members and within this five years after three years you can also apply for the permanent residency visa adelaide and south australia is one of the first states to introduce this visa and bring entrepreneurs from all across the world and one of the bodies that endorses startups is stone and chop so today we have christian with us who reviews and endorses startups who apply to stone and chalk to come to australia so let's ask couple of questions to christian thanks listen for doing this it's really good to have you answer the questions that i had and the audience may have and let's dive right into it the first question is what do you look for when you endorse a startup yeah absolutely great question um what we look for are dedicated entrepreneurs that solve a serious problem using technology um it could be a software backbone to an in an existing industry it could be a software-as-a-service solution it could be cloud technology in basically any industry we especially get excited about elements like machine learning space industries cyber security and these things but like i said it could be any industry because as you know software is eating the world so what we look for entrepreneurs that are energetic that want to be part of this community here in adelaide and and build their globally scalable companies from here i love that so so let's say i have a promising startup idea but i haven't made a lot of progress yet can i apply for this absolutely pitch your idea to us um it could be very very early stage you have thought about it deeply for a while um you have done your research you've you've sort of outlined the steps that you can take you you need to take in the next couple of years in order to get somewhere meaningful like how much money you might need to raise but it could be very very early stage so ideation stage basically yeah that's perfect yeah and and as as you mentioned adelaide and south australia there are a couple of organizations that can endorse why do you think someone should apply to stone and chop absolutely great question uh again stone and shock is australia's largest dedicated startup and scale-up community we have pubs in sydney melbourne and adelaide across um we're going to be opening more across australia that's 850 residents right now who in the last six years have raised a total of 1 billion dollars in funding from investors that comes with 85 mentors that are associated with stone and chalk about 120 investors that are part of our investor network so that is a community that gives you access to all these resources um and we're the only one who do this all across australia i love that yeah and i can i can i can vouch for it because even when i was living in melbourne i was associated with sonatak and after coming to adelaide i was like oh where's sony chuck and what's what's happening in the startup ecosystem here uh and including events and everything right so so here in that precinct where we're located lot 14 is sort of think of it as the center of gravity of innovation precincts in adelaide and and even australia because we have the australian space agencies adjacent uh towards one of our neighbors the australian space discovery center the australian institute of machine learning is in a building next door and in this building that we're in here with 250 stone and chalkers crunching away and working on their startup i love that yeah thanks thanks for giving those numbers it gives us i think more perspective of who we are applying with also i had last super important question that i have gotten a lot is that we say that entrepreneurship visa has a pathway towards permanent residency how does that work yeah absolutely it's very important and me being a migrant myself it was very important to me to look for those criteria so pathway to permanent residency means that this visa that you're applying for here now is a provisional visa that after five years qualifies you to apply for the next level visa which is a permanent residency visa so you can actually in fact you can already apply after three years there's a couple criteria to meet such as unisoni to be a resident in south australia you still need to be associated with stone and chalk but um that's all very easy to meet those criteria and then you can be endorsed for the next level visa or you might in fact choose other visa options yeah i love that thanks thanks for sharing that i'm sure i'm sure that would help that has helped me and that will help a lot of our people absolutely now that was super helpful but one of the questions that i had was that if i have an early stage startup which is not making revenue how am i going to survive in australia so what are my working rights here in australia and the answer to that is that you have full-time working rights but obviously it is expected that because let's say stone and shark is endorsing you you will stay associated with stone and chalk and keep working on your startup because at the end of the day you're on the entrepreneurship visa but if the question is will you be able to survive by working let's say a part-time job the answer is yes you can do that but also work on your startup well i hope that answers all your questions about entrepreneurship visa if you have any questions write it in the comment section if you want to apply for this visa i have given a link in the description below you will be able to read more about this visa and apply for 188 e visa and actually come to australia and pursue your startup hope this video was helpful if you haven't hit the subscribe button hit the subscribe button turn on the notification bell if you haven't liked this video like this video and share this video with all your entrepreneur friends see you in the next video