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Webinar: Rowan Simpson, Chair @ Hoku & Founder @ OneMetric.io | How Founders Can Use Metrics To Ask Better Questions and Tell Better Stories

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KIWI LANDING PAD PRESENTS:

A new event every week bringing you interesting, informative sessions with people from our community, on topics that you’ve asked for. Our format is all about engagement, dialogue and learning! Come join our community of 4,500 people, ask your questions and learn some stuff!

Join us online, September 12th @ 10am (NZT) to hear from Rowan Simpson, Chair @ Hoku & Founder @ OneMetric.io

We’ll be discussing how founders can use metrics to ask better questions and tell better stories, including:

- Why this is important

- Why this is so hard for most founders

- A plan for doing this

Tune in, or catch up later, we bring you a digestible format that you can listen to whilst at your desk working, or come back and watch the recording later.

SPEAKER BIO: Rowan Simpson | Chair @ Hoku, and Founder @ OneMetric.io

Rowan is an early-stage investor and software developer who is passionate about creating great products that people love to use.

Rowan has been involved as an investor, advisor and employee in a number of iconic high-growth technology businesses in New Zealand, including Trade Me, Xero and Vend. He was one of the original investors in Timely, Atomic and ThisData (previously Revert), and continues to work closely with the founders of all of these businesses.

Prior to all of this, Rowan completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington.

Rowan proudly lives in New Zealand with his wife and two sons.

HOST: SIAN SIMPSON | Director of Community & Content @ Kiwi Landing Pad

Kiwi Landing Pad (KLP) was established in 2011 to help New Zealand high growth technology companies expand into the US market. KLP is a rapidly growing community created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.

Webinar: Kiwi Founder Series with Siobhan Bulfin | CEO & Founder @ Melon Health

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Join us online August 29th @ 10AM NZT to hear from Siobhan Bulfin, CEO & Founder @ Melon Health.

We’ll be discussing her journey as a founder, chatting about:

- Persistence

- Resilience

- Self-awareness.

Tune in live, or catch up later; we bring you a digestible format that you can listen to whilst at your desk working, or come back and watch the recording later.

SPEAKER BIO: Siobhan Bulfin | CEO & Founder @ Melon Health

One of eight children born in Hawera, Taranaki, Siobhan founded Melon in 2012. Melon provides online communities and behaviour change tools for chronic disease prevention and management. Alongside Melon, she also serves as an advisor to US-based startup BetterBiotics.

An entrepreneur since a young age, Siobhan spent many years travelling the world which set her in good stead for the roller coaster ride of a sole founder.

HOST: SIAN SIMPSON | Director of Community & Content @ Kiwi Landing Pad

Kiwi Landing Pad (KLP) was established in 2011 to help New Zealand high growth technology companies expand into the US market. KLP is a rapidly growing community created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.

Webinar: Kiwi Founder Stories with Angie Judge | CEO & Co-founder @ Dexibit

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Join us online August 8th @ 10AM NZT to hear from Angie Judge, CEO & Co-founder @ Dexibit.

Tune in live, or catch up later; we bring you a digestible format that you can listen to whilst at your desk working, or come back and watch the recording later.

SPEAKER BIO: Angie Judge | CEO & Co-founder @ Dexibit

Angie Judge is the CEO & Co-founder of Dexibit, empowering the world’s cultural future with artificial intelligence. For visitor attractions like museums, Dexibit’s award winning big data analytics software predicts, analyses and reports on visitor experience and venue performance to enable commercial and social outcomes.

Judge is a prominent speaker on the topics of AI and big data, having presented at numerous conferences and events globally including TEDx, the American Alliance of Museums, AI Day, and as a keynote speaker at the Microsoft Ignite conference. She also guest lectures in data science, and talks to young women about building careers in STEM.

Furthermore, Judge is the Co-Chair of the Museum Computer Network’s Data & Insights SIG, Deputy Chair of the Media & Technology Leadership Team for the American Alliance of Museums Professional Network, and runs a series of regular working groups for attractions analytics.

HOST: SIAN SIMPSON | Director of Community & Content @ Kiwi Landing Pad

Kiwi Landing Pad (KLP) was established in 2011 to help New Zealand high growth technology companies expand into the US market. KLP is a rapidly growing community created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.

Webinar: Eachan Fletcher, CEO & Founder @ NestEgg, formerly CTO @ Expedia | What I Wish I Knew About Product Roadmaps Five Years Ago

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Join us online, August 2nd @ 10am (NZT) to hear from Eachan Fletcher, CEO & Founder @ NestEgg and former CTO @ Expedia.

We’ll be taking a look at what good product process is, and how to make a roadmap, with a specific ‘mini clinic’ on roadmaps at the end where Eachan will answer a bunch of questions on what people are struggling with.

Tune in, or catch up later, we bring you a digestible format that you can listen to whilst at your desk working, or come back and watch the recording later.

SPEAKER BIO: Eachan Fletcher | Former VP Product @ Expedia
I have more than 20 years experience building consumer internet platforms in high growth startups with more dreams than money, and in giant corporates with quite the opposite! Throughout these years in Australasia, the UK, and Silicon Valley I have synthesised an approach to building products from the best methodologies I’ve seen in play, and figured out how to scale it for companies at different stages of growth.

I am currently the founder and CEO of my own AI company, NestEgg, leading a much smaller - but more concentrated - team of super smart people. Prior to this, I was the VP Product at Expedia, where I built and lead multiple teams, developing award-winning products and unlocking the path to significant revenue growth for the business.

HOST: SIAN SIMPSON | Director of Community & Content @ Kiwi Landing Pad

Kiwi Landing Pad (KLP) was established in 2011 to help New Zealand high growth technology companies expand into the US market. KLP is a rapidly growing community created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.

Community, Kiwi Start Ups, Marketing, NZ Inc

New Zealand Companies You Should Know – November 2017

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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:

1Centre - Reinventing, streamlining and de-stressing the Trade Credit Application Process.

Tribe Sport App - Your Destination for Sport. Everything in one place… and actually nice to use! Check out the app: http://tribe.fyi/getapp (iOS & Android).

ThinkLadder - Thinkladder is a collaboration between, writers, therapists and creatives. Our mission is to produce engaging content for those who want to develop their self awareness, mental health and wellbeing, and to deliver that content via social platforms, and unique online experiences.

Code Lingo - Code Quality that Scales

The Social Club - The Social Club is an online platform, connecting New Zealand’s largest community of social media influencers directly with brands and agencies.

Stratamap - StrataMap is a single source of truth platform for maintaining and sharing models. Designed specifically for large enterprises, government agencies and vendors, StrataMap exists to ease the pain of change.

Vinsight - Great web based winery software: inventory, winemaking, lab, costings, sales. Make it, trace it!

PrenoHQ - Preno is a property management software created for hoteliers by an award winning hotelier.

Linc Ed - LINC-ED is a unique web app for NZ schools that is designed to be simple, secure and stylish.

Boma - Boma enables SMB’s to join the digital revolution by allowing them to easily create, distribute & optimise digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels.

Advise, Community, Media, NZ Inc

Celebrating 6 years, with 6 events - Something For Everyone

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“Building a business is hard, building a global business is even harder” - Sam Morgan

 

The idea for Kiwi Landing Pad began in the Kiwi entrepreneurial community in 2008 with a small group of entrepreneurs reflecting on their own journey and how to make it easier for the next wave of entrepreneurs to successfully follow - but faster and smarter.

The New Zealand government planned to invest more to support the technology and innovation ecosystem to make it easier for our companies to land and expand into the US market. During an “NZ Inc” meeting in 2010, John Holt & Sam Morgan put up their hands to collaborate and make the vision of a physical hub in Silicon Valley a reality three years ahead of plan - KLP was born.

In July 2011 we opened our doors in San Francisco for the first time, and with our first residents Xero, Vworkapp and Magritek.

On September 16th 2011, we held our very first Kiwi Landing Pad event. This year it’s now been 6 years, and we’ve had over 250 events with no signs of slowing down, right now we have one a week, at least.

This month we are celebrating the success of 6 years, with 6 events - as our community is global, 4,000 members in 36 countries around the world, we decided to have something for everyone whether thats a jam, webinar or our very first party in New Zealand. We encourage you to come along and meet our community (your peers) and learn more about where we are going in the future.

The Events:

Webinars

Sales & Marketing Jams

Party/Drinks

Thanks for your support over the last 6 years, onwards to make technology the number #1 export in New Zealand and continue building great businesses, great products and helping Kiwis think big.

Sian & John
@ Kiwi Landing Pad

Community, Kiwi Start Ups, Marketing, NZ Inc

New Zealand Companies You Should Know – July 2017

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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:

Soul Machines - Highly engaging Digital Humans with personality and character. Brought to life with our Embodied Cognition Platform. Emotional Intelligence for AI

Xandra - A conversation design agency. Bringing more humanity to technology. Conversation design using AI and chatbots.

Nudge - The first native content analytics platform, agencies & publishers track, measure & optimize their native content.

Osnova - Osnova is creating an AI based private tutor for maths. We will democratise education and give everyone with internet access to free high quality education.

Jude - Your private banker.

Teknique - Teknique designs and engineers groundbreaking miniaturized video cameras that work wirelessly for security, driver safety, and action sports.

O2O2 - O2O2 allows those in polluted megacities like Beijing and London to reclaim their outdoor lifestyles and commute and exercise without fear of pollution

Hectre - Orchard Management Software

Snapithd - Providing systems, hardware and AI for computer vision applications. Working in the maritime and construction industries.

Swyft - Swyft is the disruptive turn-key automated retail channel for brands, retailers, franchise vend operators and enterprises to innovatively engage with users.

Kiwi Founder Series - Mike Carden & John Holt - Co-Founders @ Sonar6

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By popular demand from within our community I’ve asked John Holt and Mike Carden to be our Kiwi Founders for July. Sonar6 was a HR technology company that scaled from Auckland, New Zealand and sold to CornerStone on Demand in 2012. Unusual for us to have both founders on a webinar but very useful for a deep dive into this company and a successful SaaS business that has scaled from nothing and ended up being acquired. There is something to be said for ‘going through the process.’ Knowing these two cats, this will be a lively webinar, and one not to be missed - I have the expectation that it will be the most entertaining to date.

 

Kate Taylor, ex-Twitter Product Manager | B2C: Understanding Your Users To Drive Meaningful Growth

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KIWI LANDING PAD PRESENTS:

To continue the momentum of our Sales & Marketing Jam Series, we’ve listened to your feedback and bring you the next session in our NZSMJ series. The aim is to continue the conversation and bring you awesome people in market who are ‘doing it’ in a simple ‘crowdcast format‘ that allows access to targeted knowledge sharing without taking too much time out of your busy day.

Ask your burning questions, upvote questions you want to see answered, take part in polls and chat with the community while you listen. This is another of those ‘what you put in is what you get out’ type scenarios. We bring you the people; you ask what you want to know.

Join us online, Thursday July 13th @ 10am NZT to hear from ex-Twitter Product Manager - Kate Taylor, who also happens to be a Kiwi!

Product Spotlight:

Themes:
B2C: Understanding Your Users To Drive Meaningful Growth

Tune in, or catch up later, we bring you a digestible format that you can listen to whilst at your desk working, or come back and watch the recording later.

SPEAKER BIO: Kate Taylor | Product Manager @ Twitter

Kate Taylor is an experienced product manager who has worked across Twitter in PM functions for the last 5 years.

I love to learn. I love mission minded companies who have something big to offer the world. I have a long history in Program Management and working in consumer products. I love cross-team collaboration, growth, and moving metrics.

I’ve founded two Green Teams (Twitter and CBS Interactive) to help make the planet great again.

Specialties: Program management, product management, communications, online marketing, sustainability.

HOST: SIAN SIMPSON | Director of Community & Content @ Kiwi Landing Pad

Kiwi Landing Pad (KLP) was established in 2011 to help New Zealand high growth technology companies expand into the US market. KLP is a rapidly growing community created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.