Another FKA Friday ● 5 April 2024#11

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5 April 2024 #11 856+359  This issue hits you from Sydney, not Auckland as usual. Greetings to our fellow angels in Melbourne and Brisbane! Suse has been a relentless advocate of startups and angel investing. She brought her sparkling enthusiasm and her unique fairy-dusted language to the industry. Best hear it from the fairy's mouth, though. Listen here.  Thank you, Suse! OMG, David!  That will be an act to follow! But we know you'll bring your own style and language, neither wax lyrical, nor legalese. Your fellow angels at FKA wish you all the best for this high-flying role!  Good on you, Kim, for firing yourself! At the beginning, founders do every job, but with growth comes focus. Sadly, far too many founders hold on to every job. Not Kim! She has fired herself from all other jobs to focus on her happy place and drive product. See more! BTW, FKA and many of our portfolio companies use BoardPro. If you think a perfect pitch deck secures funding, think again! Many accelerators in NZ still think so and spend a disproportionate amount of time on the pitch! Dig into this discussion! Started by Phil Sweeney with "Could we just stop with all this dumbed-down numbbrain treating-founders-like-idiots nonsense, please?" What happens at ADI? The 17:40 session yesterday started like this: "I have an idea for a product, need to know if it's good and from there what on earth to actually do." Debra is the 2017 NZ Arch Angel and Rudi followed in her slipstream in 2021. Both of them have recently advocated two niche players with Mindhive and Blue Mirror. Read on for Debra's holy-moley-moment! Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.