If you’re an Australian with a sore back seeking treatment in NZ, be careful what you ask for, and no matter how cold it is, don’t wear a fleece to your appointment! (a blog post not about tech startups, for a change)
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'Time kills all deals' - Alex Lewis, Aussie Angels

50 more coffees is the last thing this guy needs startupdaily.net/topic/business… STARTUP DAILY

Some startups investments thrive, some fail, and I've needed to live off my startup angel investment returns along the way, so it's taken since 2011 for my portfolio to reach 39 still-going startups. How should I celebrate when it hits 40 next month?

In the benevolent dictatorship I will one day rule, all makers of signage will be required to employ a proofreader with possessive apostrophe training and the penalty for displaying an incorrect apostrophe shall be death by lethal injection’s.

We’re so doomed. The writing on the wall is being written by metal hands 😂 youtu.be/sfKMkt5lq10?si… via YouTube

I’ve spent some time this week giving some pitch coaching to the current batch of @Startmate founders but they barely needed any…

Emma Grife and Brady Flockart must have been working hard with them all program because I haven’t missed a Startmate demo day in more than a decade,…

I’ve been workshopping demo day pitches with the current cohort of Startmate founders this week and heads-up: this is the most impressive set of startup pitches ever to take a Startmate demo day stage. Don’t miss out on a ticket! 💥💥💥

TIL: one of the many ways NZ is superior to AU is that they have supergenerous.co.nz which will go get all your tax deductible donation receipts and file them with the tax authority, send you the refund or let you re-donate it to charity. Kiwis have one foot in the future.

Most startup founders are somewhere on the journey from thinking this was all about building a technology product, towards realising this is mostly about learning how to do sales and marketing. communitees.dasautomat.com/shop/view_prod…
$10 from every sale to charity!

Startmate has gone on to invest in 230+ start-ups worth $3.5b since 2011.

The sector’s evolution from social club to sprawling industry means wealthy Australians have access to previously unattainable opportunities by playing the role of angel investors.

Correction: that caption should read: “My returns can be extraordinary.”

Azhar, you had one job. “Barry”? 😂