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Every month at the Kiwi Landing Pad, we do a monthly update that covers who is in, what’s going on, and companies we have meet, come across or talked with lately, they are in varying industries and stages and in no particular order, sometimes old, sometimes new. To subscribe for updates please follow this link or send us an email to [email protected] NZ Companies you should know – check them out: GameStatix – Gamestatix is a social platform for the co-creation of PC games, that recognises, encourages and rewards user contribution, whilst giving game developers access to global pool of talent to efficiently generate, curate and promote their content. Couchdrop – Couchdrop is the only true Cloud SCP, SFTP and Rsync server. Couchdrop lets you SCP, SFTP and Rsync directly to cloud storage (Dropbox, Box, BackblazeB2, GoogleDrive etc.). With Couchdrop you do not need to install additional software as it uses the native Rsync, SFTP and SCP applications. Couchdrop offers a secure means of transfer as both applications run over SSH. Wine Grenade – The Wine Grenade is a simple and cost effective tool to help winemakers make great reds through the process of micro-oxygenation. Re-leased – Re-Leased is a powerful, award-winning cloud-based commercial property management software. SwipedOn - Welcome people into your world with a smart but simple visitor management solution. Our paperless gateway makes connecting people intuitive and easy. Tradify – The app of choice for thousands of Tradies. Track jobs from quote to invoice and everything in between. A2X – Automated Accounting For Amazon Marketplace Sales, Fees, Cost Of Goods Sold, And FBA Inventory Cemplicity – The Cemplicity Aim – a powerful patient voice. We believe every patient should have the opportunity to tell their story and that a patient’s positive view of their own health is the ultimate measure of success. Aider.ai - Aider is the digital assistant for your small business. Using the latest AI technology, Aider helps small business stay connected and utilize insights to make smarter business decisions. Ask Aider questions from anywhere, get easy answers, then share the learnings with your staff, partners and advisors. Aider is your business’ own AI engine. Orbica – Location Data Connectivity. Orbica unlocks the value of location data to create effective business solutions and products. You’ll develop new insights that improve and accelerate your decision making, increase performance, reduce risks and costs, enhance your customer’s experience and generate revenue.
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At Stripe they firmly believe great companies come from everywhere. Which is why they’ve built the Stripe Atlas platform, making it easier for great companies from around the world to expand into the US. Through developing this platform, and growing globally themselves, they’ve learnt a few things. Here are the top five lessons on going global with Sarah Heck, Stripe’s Head of Entrepreneurship. Don’t (necessarily) Go For The Obvious Choice. There are lots of different markets that look appealing as either large markets or similar ones to the markets you’re already operating in. However some of the most successful markets for Stripe have been the smaller or less obvious ones. Singapore is a good example of this; a market that seems small, but is actually quite the opposite. Many countries in the Southeast Asia region use Singapore as their hub of operations, therefore being in Singapore gives you access to the whole region. So sometimes making the non-obvious choice for your company makes a lot of sense. Invent Your Own Signals. When looking at markets you need to look beyond the obvious metrics everyone else is using, like GDP, population, or language. It’s important to pick the right metrics for your business and market. Stripe has a strong brand with developers and startups, so look towards things like the number of GitHub accounts in a certain market, or the number of startups on Crunchbase. They invented some of their own signals like which IP address locations were being logged, and the countries where people were frequently tweeting about pain points around payments or economic infrastructure. Or where people were notifying them when they launched their companies. These things got them much closer to the actual latent demand that exists for their product than the more mainstream signals would have. It Takes Longer Than You Expect Launching in a new market will always take longer than you expect, whether it’s because of regulation, time zone, language or something else. Everything gets slowed down, even for the fastest moving companies. Stripe overcame this by running really long beta periods, which has worked well. They launch in beta and test very rapidly, working closely with a small set of users to make sure the product is really tailored for the market. Then only when they’re super competitive do they go from beta to a public version. Despite requiring a long runway it gave them confidence that they’d be successful when launching publicly. The First Person Makes or Breaks a Market Every company needs to find their Batman. Finding the right person to start in a new market will really make a difference. Stripe have found generalists who aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into everything make the best first hires in a new market. You have to think about everything from building a prototype of the company to thinking about how you do sales. You have to be a jack of all trades. Being out there alone making it all happen can be really difficult, so you really have to find the right personality for that. Build an Organizational Structure To Empower You From Day One Lastly, Stripe has worked really hard to build an organizational structure that empowers local markets from day one. How do you empower teams, especially early on, to make sure they can operate relatively autonomously? When you’re thinking about timezones and language, how can you make sure the people on the ground who really understand the local market are empowered to do their job? Allow them to dig into the details of what will be most successful in the market, and what is needed to achieve product market fit. Later on, as markets mature, you can bring them back into the fold of HQ in different ways. But make sure that they’re empowered in the beginning.
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