Another FKA Friday ● 30 July 2021#28

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30 July 2021 #28 810   ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀs   Ryan presented at our Pitch Night plus in July and HERE comes his updated pitch video for our readers. The full-length video goes to our 35 Voting Angels. 18 YES votes and Josh will go ahead and assemble a DD Team. Email him if you can help. Josh needs all the help he can get Yesterday at ADI Auckland we had to put a founder's misconception right. Building a startup is not easy.  STARTUP IS HARD!  Dil Khosa, Athena X. Startups are TOUGH and sometimes all you need is someone else to connect with that's going through the same. So come one - come all. You're all invited. Fri 30 July 4-7pm, 27 Drake Street, Victoria Park Market, Auckland MORE Lots of press about the supermarket duopoly at the moment. Perfect timing for Sarah and Supie! This HERE is her video from earlier this month. Interested? Get in touch with Andy.Harwood@fka.nz ? Rowan demystifies the lax Kiwi use of "world-class" and makes a compelling case for focusing on a niche, probably our most frequent advice at ADI.  Read his blog! Above Niche: World Record, 4x100 m Retrorunning, Germany ? HERE, An interesting in-depth article by Jeffrey Funk. Thank you, Dana. Jordan Green is the leader of our syndication partners, the Melbourne Angels. He is addicted to bleeding-edge technology and up for most things like The Millionaire Minute. BioTechNZ members receive a 25% discount, 10% for Tech Alliance members, sorry zero discount for Angels but will you care? REGISTER "4 years ago I presented Dragon’s Den / Shark Tank style at NZ Software Association ‘An Angel at my Table’ event… judged by Rudi Bublitz and Debra Hall." LinkedIn. OMG, is that 4 years already! Two Brothers Vanish With $4.75 Billion Of Bitcoin In History’s Biggest Crypto Heist. More on that HERE. Simon Che de Boer pitched photogrammetry in May. We sent him to find a CEO. There is clearly interest in his work. LinkedIn. Startup investments are private offers under the FMA. Angel investors should have a wealth-based or experience-based certificate. So that, the directors of a startup can be sure not to be making an offer to prohibited retail investors. That covers other investments too. More here! The size of your chequebook is not necessarily correlated with your ability to help entrepreneurs. Are you passionate about startups and supporting founders? If so, become an AirTree Explorer! More! Very different but a little like the Scout Programme at Hillfarrance