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Another FKA Friday ● 26 August 2022#30

26/8/2022


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FKA is a community partner for Sunrise Aotearoa. Hosted on September 6 at the ASB Waterfront in Auckland, a startup festival by our friends at Blackbird. It will be a day of inspiration and provocation! Blackbird have offered the FKA community a special discounted rate - head here.

ADI.Clinic runs every week, helping founders with advice, connections and more. Typically 5 or so angels in the room. We saw 3 founders yesterday and will talk to the smart team at Woolchemy next week. Join us if you're not sheepish!

From PitchBooks's ETI report. Q2 deal value down significantly, down 39% from Q1’s $8.3b, down 52% from Q4’s all-time peak of $10.6b. Web3/DeFi tops deal value, fintech falls: For the fourth consecutive quarter, Web3 & DeFi was the largest area of ETI investment. Fintech saw one of its weakest quarters.

The 2022 Bridgewest Conference will be in Wellington, New Zealand on 6th to 8th November 2022. REGISTER HERE.

Cropsy's Liela Deljkovic, who attended the recent Wellington Runway, tells why she loved it. The next Runway will be in Auckland on 14th September.

Register—don't miss out! Rudi says, "I'll be there!"

Interesting discussion kicked off by Harry Stebbings from The 20 Minute VC. HERE.

The customer service at VC-darlings like Uber and AirBnb is dropping. Is that a consequence of overfunding? More here. □

From CNN. Looks like competition for Soul Machines, sounds scary.

Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.

Another FKA Friday ● 19 August 2022#29

19/8/2022


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We had a great pitch night on Tuesday and will be able to share the recordings soon. Thank you to KPMG for hosting. Great updates from Spoke, Chnnl & Kara!

On Tuesday, also a great talk on SaaS accounting from Julian.

We like him, we like querky but it seems that the accounting prefession likes him too. He was recently awarded the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Fellowship. "I'm a Chinese and we fricking love money" is just one quote from his acceptance speech.

Angel investing doesn't stop after the 1st cheque. Engaged investor reps are good for companies and investors, Phil being a very fine example. FKA investors have stepped up in a rights issue this week. $1m committed will help to make up for other shareholders.

Robett is running 2 days of workshops—sessions and exclusive global insights led by a bunch of "Weapons" in his network, in a fully safe Chatham House Rules environment for 100 founders. Apply by 21st August!

Wed, 14 Sep, 16:00-18:00. Do you want to see live pitches and learn from their open feedback session in real time? And learn how to successfully pitch and present to raise capital from an expert panel in an open Q&A session? MORE HERE!

After The Spectacular Rise and Fall of WeWork it is unbelievable that Andreessen Horowitz back Neumann (again!), the largest individual check Andreessen Horowitz has ever written. More HERE!

Product Market Fit—Andrew Chen from a16z shares an excellent deck HERE!

Josh says "I'm running a 3-hour crash course on starting a business (and exiting and a few things in between) on 24 August 2022." Colourful! Register here!⚖️‍

Masco from the Bridgewest tech incubator stable came to ADI recently looking for a lead investor to validate its round. It seems the crowd has now provided that validation. Read more! Low founder equity and a dominant position of the tech incubator make for an unusual startup structure.

Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.

Another FKA Friday ● 12 August 2022#28

12/8/2022


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Don't miss it! 18:30, Tue 16 August, at KPMG, 18 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, AKL

See you next Tuesday!

Kylie from the TimeOut Charitable Trust called into ADI yesterday. A very worthy cause and Ewart will follow up with her to help with demand and supply side matching. If this resonates with you get in touch with Ewart.

Guy has helped with ADI and DD, he has also talked to Debra, Glen and Chris about joining FKA. All agree that he would be a great addition to the team.

Please, advise the Board in confidence if you know of any reason why he should not join our group.?

An interesting analysis (teardown, to be hip) of the Airbnb pitch deck from 2009.

Check it out! HERE

Curiosity killed the cat and Covid chased the cat herder! Hence a short newsletter.

Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.

Another FKA Friday ● 5 August 2022#27

5/8/2022


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David was cycling in Colorado last month, then he spotted shutl. at ADI yesterday. He will take a closer look. Join him if you dig two wheeled communting.

ADI.Clinic is always interesting...

Terry from Eight360 is a founder and also a father. Welcome his little angel Lilly.

All the best from everyone to the whole Miller family !

Jono wants to join as a Flying Kiwi Angel. Caro, Cornelius and Arron have talked with him and inspected his wings. They reckon he'd be a good fit.

Please, advise the Board in confidence if you know of any reason why Jono should not join our group.

Interesting discussion about The End of Social Media as we know it. Also less influence for influencers. Good Riddance! □

From the NBR. IHV's next seed fund is filling up irregardless of the global economic climate. Gangbusters—NBR is a big IHV fan. Dambusters!

Is Zuru a bad employer or is it a case of bad employees badmouthing?

Two articles: ONE & TWO.

This has absolutely nothing to do with angel investing nor entrepreneurship, also very little with Alimentazione Sportiva but it is funny. Watch Models VS Reality!

Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.

Another FKA Friday ● 26 August 2022#30

Register—don't miss out! Rudi says, "I'll be there!"

Another FKA Friday ● 19 August 2022#29

Another FKA Friday ● 12 August 2022#28

See you next Tuesday!

Check it out! HERE

Another FKA Friday ● 5 August 2022#27

ADI.Clinic is always interesting...

All the best from everyone to the whole Miller family !

Two articles: ONE & TWO.

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