Newsletter ➢ ᴀFKAғ•2021#11

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2 April 2021 #11 Five of our portfolio companies have qualified as finalists in this year's awards in different categories. Start-Up Company of the Year: FileInvite & Moxion 〇 Most Innovative Hi-Tech Software Solution: Fuel50 〇 Most Innovative Hi-Tech Service: chnnl 〇 Most Innovative Deep Tech Solution: Formus Labs AWESOME! James+Garth, Hugh+Rudi, Anne+Tim W, Liz+Cornelius, Ju+Debra. Are you FOMO or YOLO. Got your TikTok game on? See what the kool kids are thinking of the future through the Velocity programme. Be an angel and volunteer! HERE I am Campbell, Chief Bunny Herder and happy to have conversations on what this entails as I have previously participated Bunnies can grow up to become unicorns, says the Chief Cat Herder. Kami is a perfect growth prospect coming from that stable. □ More FOMO! The MM is closing with bootstrapping master extraordinary Akhtaar, helped by Rudi.  Last chance! Email The CCH. Good news! Formus Hip in Commercial Use More HERE. AANZ :: Professional Development :: How not to screw up the cap table! 14 April  Online ✪ 15 April, Auckland ✪ Register HERE Kami #02 lives in the cloud now. Chair Bob speaks from cloud 9. Hear it! AANZ :: Professional Development :: Angel 102. Focused on what an angel investor needs to do to manage a portfolio of investments and new opportunities. Key tools and techniques to help with this. 23 April 2021, 11.30-13.30 ✪ Register HERE In the New Normal, Bessemer explores cloud economy milestones, what's driving cloud valuations, and the frameworks to help founders accelerate go-to-market momentum. Read On! AANZ Newsletter :: Suse is reminiscing, Fifteen years ago... Read On! Who says that all the startup action is in Auckland? MOA and Orion have teamed up for an energetic accelerator. More HERE! The Pöny Saga continues. After how not to pitch, comes how not to give investor feedback. Learn here. Commentary on iFlytek from Matū Man 〇 Dil Khosa 〇 A founder... Building business is hard. Guess what's even harder? Be forced to choose between giving up on one of your largest markets/customers and getting criticised by your employees and investors. It just doesn't make any sense. Most Kiwi businesses are still following the John Key doctrine when it comes to dealing with China. i.e. "We are a small country so we can operate between super powers without upsetting either." It might be true back in 2008 but it's looking increasingly hard to navigate. F***, we are entrepreneurs. Not bloody cold-war diplomats. Bumble just had a great IPO. James Veitch shows how "The S*x Rob*t" can be debunked with the Turing Test that was invented in 1951 by Benedict Cumberbatch. NZGCP ◆ A review into a Government-run venture capital fund has found bullying and perceptions of gender discrimination and "disrespectful and inappropriate workplace conduct. Controlled Release. Perceptions would be very close to misconceptions? Nothing new but shocking how Dellabarca paid himself and staff to buy their allegiance, and he gets away with it. A Ctr+Alt+Del with a new team. The Investment News  The Book  Is the book rated by Narrative Muse? Brough reckons it should be! The NBR's 'Government venture outfit struggles to shed its past, keeps scoring own goals' trailed four days behind Investment News.