Newsletter ➢ ᴀFKAғ•2017#35

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Another FKA Friday 6 October 2017   AFKAF・2017#35 Subscribe Chatbots have come such a long way. Ask FKAngels Tim and Josh. Tue 16:00 ADI.CLINC Whangarei Thu 16:00 ADI.CLINC Auckland     Coming Soon 12 Oct StretchSense AGM, email Chris.Sattler@fka.nz 17 Oct ᴇᴄᴇɴᴛʀᴇ Iɴᴠᴇsᴛᴏʀ Uᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ, RSVP 18 Oct $100k Challenge Prize Giving, AKL 27 Oct KAMI Halloween & 4MU Party, AKL, email Alliv@kamiHQ.com 1 Nov Tech Shed 17, AKL 2/3 Nov ⛰ AANZ Summit 2017, Waiheke Only our Charlie aka investment manager and his helpers operate with even bigger magnifying glasses when examining DD reports prior to the FKA investment vote. Garry whilst travelling overseas is addressing all feedback with very patient founder Vlatko. Expect the report soon A BBC News moment has come to stand for children video-bombing dad's work. During Palace diligence, we had a similar moment, sadly though we have no footage as we don't record our DD sessions. Watch it again Ask Campbell, Dan, Garth, Jai, Leoni, Ralf or Tim who are on the DD team. Of course, next to fun also good progress is being made. Four LinkedIn posts of the last week, FKA PFC#12 and PFC#01 with placings in the Deloitte Fast 50 race. Nice one, Ben, Ben and your teams.Then a Vooza video and a survey initiated by BizDojo on the insanity of founderdom. Just click the images to read more or to like it to share with your personal network.  This mass audience activation platform was created and launched in November 2015 by Mount Maunganui brothers Peter and Brendan Howell. DROPIT are seeking US$3.6M, and with total investments nudging the US$3.4M mark. More on AngelEquity. Jackie Young is drumming up angels for the ᴇᴄᴇɴᴛʀᴇ Iɴᴠᴇsᴛᴏʀ Uᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ. She is hoping for a good turnout of FKAngels on Tuesday, 17 Oct as the presenting companies always appreciate the frank FKA feedback.  Please RSVP Ben Kepes doesn't mince words in his newsletter. Mark always manages to snare great international speakers from the Angel Summit. Consequently, his Business Intelligence workshop #5 promises to be a very interesting one. Rudi was a past panellist and reports that speakers will be in for a treat, a double cheese knife set Angels and founders, please remember to nominate who you think deserves it. There are three categories and Suse explains. The difference between the Puawaitanga and the Arch Angel is that the Puawaitanga is as much about the venture as it is about the investor director. It is more of a ‘one-off’ award for a great deal being supported by a super competent, return-oriented, value-adding angel. This award will create ‘role-model’ ventures for other founders looking for angel investment and for those angels aspiring to develop an uber-angel reputation. The difference between the Arch Angel and the Kotahitanga award is that this is essentially an opportunity to recognise people who may not personally be super active angel investors writing personal cheques. These people may have taken smaller passive shareholdings in a few angel-backed ventures so they do not qualify for the Arch Angel award. But they have been super engaged in the space and supporting the growth of the industry for an extended period of time, leading networks, contributing to professional development, attracting investors, mentoring high growth startups, raising early stage ‘side-car’ funds etc etc   The Arch Angel is someone who is basically both the Puawaitanga and Kotahitanga all rolled into one … an angel and totally immersed in angel investment, building a meaningful portfolio, being on boards, providing thought leadership, promoting the industry etc etc Please send your nominations to Charlie.James@fka.nz who will coordinate our entries or directly to Suse.Reynolds@AngelAssociation.co.nz. ① Good sessions this week in Auckland unfortunately, Whangarei is not seeing a lot of demand which is disappointing for mentors. But Whangarei ADI Whip Martin will not give up.  ② The Mecca Group likes what we're doing with ADI.Clinic and David Gandar has approached us with a view to Mecca members chipping in as mentors. ③ So Julian, our angelic bigamist wed to FKA and Enterprise Angels, is finally getting closer to running an ADI.Clinic in Hamilton, which will be supported by angels from both his marriages. ④ Yesterday's ADI.Clinic had a very interesting video call from Kiwi Reuben Metcalfe in Silicon Valley. He is now building ClassAction.com after awakening from his earlier I Dream of Space venture. In this double session, we learned a lot from this master of the conversion funnel. Uli will follow up.