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Tribe Talkin' Ep 57: The SaaS Era Over? VCs Chasing M&A. VCs Question Scalare. Losing PMF Part 3. Startmate Returns.

In this week's episode: 
 'Venture capital is broken': Scalare pitches backdoor IPO as VCs question model.
Ed Keelan of Octopus Ventures releases Losing Product Market Fit part 3. 
Startmate returns. 
Cannon-Brookes-backed millennial super fund Spaceship snapped up by eToro in $80 million merger. 
VC's looking for low hanging M&A fruit.
Is the SaaS era over? 
SaaS Growth is cooling but free trials are converting at double the rate to freemium models.
What are your competitors doing? By Magic Breif. 
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 56: Investors That Charge Portfolio For Everything. Burn To Earn. Blurred Funding Lines. Death as a Service. Listener Questions On VC. Sharts.

In this week's episode:
Eucalyptus pauses Compound, its $1000-a-month men's longevity program. 
The curious case of scale-up advisory's backdoor ASX listing via a defunct lolly shop. 
The lines between equity, secondary sales and debt are blurring. 
"You gotta burn to earn", but how much is too much?   
DAAS capital: Death-as-a-service platform Willed raises $3 million as media company Seven signs on. 
Great listener questions:
Investment into the GP
How IC's work
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 55: AI Snake Oil. Bluejay.AI Goes Into Liquidation. Persistence. Shiffman To Pay Legal Costs. Startup Daily Awards. Australia's Liquidity. Sharts.

In this weeks episode:
Investor Adir Shiffman must pay Sleeping Duck co-founders' legal costs, court orders.
Startup Daily Awards.
Persistence. 
Persistence combined with the right focus. 
Build it and the likely wont come. 
Australia’s startup scene has delivered the 3rd-highest liquidity behind the U.S. and China, new analysis shows.
AI getting rid of internal systems at Klana. 
Bluejay AI goes into liquidation owing approximately $8million.
Snake oil’: Don’t believe the artificial intelligence hype.
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 54: Ash Joins Tribe. Founder's Walking With 0. SafetyCulture's $165Mil. Taking Advice. Marketing & Personas. VC Red Flags. Sharts.

In this weeks episode: 
Why Uber abandoned Carshare for Turo.
Losing product market fit. Ed Keelan's Part 2 Blog. 
SafetyCulture raises $165Mil in primary and secondary at $2.5 billion valuation. 
Calling it a $165Mil raise is not right by Simon Thomsen. 
You can raise $10Mil and still walk away with zero.
 Why Startup Marketers Should Be Diagnosticians — Advice from OpenAI's and Stripe's First Marketing Hire.
Beware of marketing personas. 
Taking advice from founders and investors.
VC red flags 
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 52: Losing PMF. Startups Shutting Down. Super Funds Squeezed Out Of VC. Early DPI. Sharts

In this week's episode: 
Nvidia slumps on earnings day. 
AustralianSuper takes billion-dollar hit on venture capital failure. 
Super funds squeezed out of VC. 
Uber scraps $105m Aussie car-sharing division. 
Drive Mate hopes to fill Uber's gap. 
Startups shutting down at a greater rate. 
Losing product market fit by Ed Keelan. 
Retention.com cuts staff, talks about loosing PMF.
Early DPI may not be a good thing. 
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 51: Canva Hunting A Snitch? Go1 CEO Swap. 'Diabilical' 18 Months For Crowdfunding. Outbound Is Dead. Sharts.

In this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin': 
Blackbird and Canva not to happy about leakers of Leonardo.ai deal details.
Jesse Wu departs Afterwork Ventures.
Investors back ‘unicorn’ Go1 CEO swap, as IPO plans emerge. 
Edtech LoveHeart AI schools up on $2.3 million Seed round.
Crowdfunding firm Equitise seeks survival funding after ‘diabolical’ 18 months.
Outbound is dead.
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 50: SaaS Metrics. Exec's Leaving Canva. Breakthrough Victoria Sued. Decelerating SaaS Growth.

On this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin':
Man baby owner of X/Twitter is suing a group of advertisers and major companies, accusing them of unlawfully agreeing to "boycott" the site.
Flippa's CEO says he's been told not to publicise VC exits that aren't fund returners because they don't fit the narrative.
Is it easier to get $200million than $2million? Shunned by banks and major funds, Sircel managed to secure $5 million. 
Loan Bio lays off the majority of its staff in the US after six months. 
5 execs have left Canva ahead of IPO.
Start-up founder Dr Dean Freestone is suing the Victorian government’s troubled venture capital fund Breakthrough Victoria.
Companies becoming more product led to arrest falling growth. 
Atlassian has a weak quarter. 
Public SaaS metric benchmarks by Matt Aird. 
Tech unicorn SafetyCulture is on the hunt for a new Chief AI office. 
Venture backed startups take a decade to build. 
The best vintages of VC is when its hard. 
10 startup lies. 
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Tribe Talkin Ep 49: AUS VC's Face Battle for Future. TEN13 Passes $100M. OneVentures Fund VII $200M. Leonardo.ai Was Finding It Hard. Hivery To Zero. Sharts

In this weeks episode: 
TEN13 passes $100M invested. 
OneVentures launches new $200m fund to address the lack of growth stage funding in Australia.
Australian venture capital firms face a battle for their future. 
 Leonardo was finding it harder and harder before the Canva acquisition.
Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. 
Retail AI start up Hivery backed written down to Zero.
Big players will continue to ramp up investment in AI capacity. 
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