Another FKA Friday ● 18 November 2022#42

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18 November 2022 #42 808 If you missed our pitch night on Tuesday you can see Jeff pitching MyMahi HERE. The round is 90% committed. Email Graeme if you want to find out more. Nudging all Kiwi Founders to fill in the Genome Survey! It will help to benchmark our local startup ecosystem against others around the world. It will tell stakeholders where it will be most beneficial to apply additional resources. Last chance today! The crew from Syos brought their helicopter drone on Tuesday—more on this next week. In the meantime, we can lift the cockpit lid and solve the pilot mystery. □ 50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World affect our judgment.  Awareness is a good thing when making investment decisions. □ CEO Markus & CTO Katie presented PowerON - Smart Elastic and their video will follow soon. Julian is a Flying Kiwi with a day job, he runs CFO4U with a new pro promo vid. Here are some of his takeaways from the Angel Summit. ① Listen to your customers, not your competitors ② Now “Get profitable fast”, no longer “Get big fast” ③ USA Saas now 5.5x ARR, a big drop from 14x in 2020 You have seen the ads for monday.com—just one bad example. More in "The bubble has popped for unprofitable software companies"! 1st December! Numbers are building! Please RSVP HERE. □️ From the Economist. Mischief is cyclical—it is bred in good times and uncovered in bad times. VC and PE can play with tricks, and startups too. □️ Nuff said! Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.