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Tribe Talkin' Ep 40: Startmate Excels. Frugal Founders. 60 Person Leadership Teams? Fewer People at Series A. SaaS Growth Decelerating. Modus Partners SaaS valuations. Sharts.

In this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin': 
Startmate's Top 20 most valuable alumni. 
Frugal founders.
Nvidia leadership team of 60 people. 
Fewer employees at SaaS Series A. 
Connecting the money you raise to peeling layers of risk. 
Salesforce decelerating growth, as we've seen with the rest of the market. 
Modus Partners shares data on SaaS valuations. 
Sharts:
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Investor Focus Ep 7: Edward Keelan, Partner at Octopus Ventures.

Today's Investor Focus guest is Edward Keelan of Octopus Ventures. 
This is an awesome episode as we love the way Ed simplifies topics that are often made overly complex. 
The episode discusses; 
Ed's Startup Experience, Lessons, & Entry Into VC.
B2B Software Investing.
Resilient Founders and Teams.
Importance of Funnel Metrics as Accountability and Evaluation Tools.
Concept of "Tilt".
Top-of-the-Funnel Focus.
Sales Process & Scalability.
Avoiding Weighted Pipelines.
Market Expansion Challenges and Strategies.
And so much more!
We highly recommend following Ed on LinkedIn, and appreciate what we learn from the content he generously shares. 
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 39: Sharts. Government's Sexy Fingers. AI Extortion. Canva Rap. Captial Raises.

In this weeks episode: 
 Go-Catch v Uber windup.
Government continues to have sexy fingers with taxing unrealised capital gains.
Reasons why Sam Altman was fired.
Extortion attempt: WiseTech CEO says criminals tried to impersonate him using AI.
Not all AI is very clever.
YouTube's original seed investment. 
Canva continues to go enterprise.
Airwallex staff turnover continues.
Capital on the sidelines.
Innovation Bay raises capital. 
WeMoney capital raise. 
Find good investors that will support you. 
Sharts
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 38: VC's Are Lazy, Stupid, Biased & Overly Conservative. Accelerators. Startup Daily Awards. Useless Charts.

In this weeks episode: 
 Recap on concerns from the VC community on CrowdFunding. 
Don't loose your sense of humor from Jerry Seinfeld. 
Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards nominations now open. 
What was in the Budget for the startup ecosystem.
Build Club: a new AI founder focused accelerator seeking to fix "broken' accelerator models. 
Create your own advice GPT. 
Nothing happens without action: old video from Steve Jobs. 
Development costs may not come down with AI. 
Rayn Wong wants to speak to the manager of people saying Australian VC's are too conservative. 
Claire Bristow of Skalata shares her views on "Australian VC's are too conservative". 
Xylo Systems tackling AI and "Tech Bro VC's".
VC's are lazy looking at silly signals. 
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 37: VC Red Flags. VC's Criticise Crowdfunding. Outbound is Dying. More Time to Series A. Billion $ Bet on PsiQuantum. Geoff Bozo.

On this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin' news: 
Labor’s bold $1b bet on Aussie quantum start-up.
Has it ever been harder to get from Seed to Series A?
Birchal defends VC criticism of Crowdfunding.
VC red flags.
 Xero hikes it prices. Demonstrated structural competitive advantage. 
Don't be Geoff Bozo. 
The best founders can cold email. 
Outbound is dying. 
How Bumble got clever early awareness. 
Charts
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 36: Co-Founders More Likely To Build Unicorns. First Time Or Second Time Founders Best? Farquar Steps Down. Canva Staff To Buy Houses.

In this weeks episode: 
Spac listing hobbled Tritium making it hard to raise fresh capital. Reasons for failure coming out in administration process. 
Scott Farquar stepping down from Atlassian.
Canva employees are going to buy houses and pay off debt. 
First time vs second time founders: is success more likely? 
Co-founders more likely to build unicorns.
Industries more likely or less likely to have 4+ co-founders vs solo founders
Do what you say you will do & keep turning up.
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 35: VC a Giant Ponzi? Tritium In Administration. Kiki. The Atlassian Machine. Pivot To Enterprise

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Tribe Talkin' Ep 34: What Makes a "Good" Founder. OpenAI Will Steamroll You! Too Many Startups. When You Don't Get Follow On.

In this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin': 
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes it clear they're going to steamroll you.
M&A proposed rule changes. 
Google releases new tools for Gemini: write your emails and create your spreadsheets. 
Speed of AI making it hard for firms to invest. 
How to avoid raising too much money. A great article by Ben Armstrong from Archangel in Startup Daily. 
What happens when Blackbird doesn't follow on? 
Too many startups in the US? 
Charts
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