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Aaron and Don debrief on the 9 days they had in the US with founders and investors.   

In this week's episode: Let's be clear -- the very best B2B companies just explode.  www.reshop.com has closed a USD$17m capital raise  in 2025. 14 venture capitalists unpack the year ahead.   A bridge to nowhere.  Its the Data stupid. Cloning websites made easy. hello@tribeglobal.vc

In this week's episode:   NASDAQ & S & P 500 fall- why it matters. Kirstin Hunter joins equity platform Birchal as CEO.  The startup lesson Australia still struggles with.  Why taste, not tech, will be the advantage in the age of AI. Ingredients AI founders will need. Why startups fail. You can have everything you want, just not at the same time. Is your CEO a fraud?  Sharts:     hello@tri...

In this week's episode:  Employment Hero AI adoption drive.  Michael Luorebuilt a basic version of Docusign in 2 days.   AI development not fool proof just yet.  We are all just wrappers of the previous thing.  Market places are squarely in the firing line of AI agents.  New definitions of product market fit.  Cold outreach by Paypal.  Top of funnel is a waste of time sub $5mil?  Sharts hello@trib...

In this week's epsidoe: Findings from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on the Wholesale investor tests are out . AI Agents talking in their own language (data over sound).   Voice agents getting better.  User experience is part of the rapid growth story: B2B feeling B2C.  Vu Tran seeking resumes.  Don’t assume a static world: model performance and cost.  Goo...

In this week's episode: Five V SaaS Summit, Sydney March 20th 2025.  KKR Acquires Stake in HRM Platform Employment Hero from SEEK Investments. Kiki’s investor reports reveal millions burned amid legal risks. The middle class engineer is dying. And it's dying because they're not neede d anymore. ​​​​​​​ Small teams are the future.  What comes fast can be lost fast. Splose AI raises $5million. Findi...

In this weeks episode:  OpenAI AI SDR. Investigating ChatGPT Search: Insights from 80 Million Clickstream Records.  Glass jaw man baby make face bid to buy OpenAI.  YC's first AI Startup School.  Cursor becomes the fastest company to $100M ARR. 2021 VC cohort looking very grim.  VC's don't reject you after deep DD.   About 50% of companies will go from Seed to Series A.  Lessons in VC.  Themes of...

In this week's episode:  Outbound isn't d ead.  The worst thing that can happen to your startup isn't failure.  Australian start-up Lorikeet cracks $100m valuation in AI agent boom.  Robotics has reached a tipping point.  First bullet point or last bullet point AI companies. Miss America Nuclear Power debate.  Adrian Di Marco awarded OAM for his service to information technology.  Theme's of the w...

In this episode we are joined by Chris Gillings of Cut Through Venture and Mitchell Bissinger of Folklore Ventures to discuss the 2024 State of Australian Startup Funding Results. You can get access to the full report here.  hello@tribeglobal.vc  

In this week's episode:  The Keeper Test:  Netflix website description. The severance package. What the staff say about it. Deepseek: 20VC episode  SEO getting harder. Own your own audience. Can you return a VCs fund? Find a niche. Sharts: ​​​​​​​hello@tribeglobal.vc   

In this episode of In The Trenches, Dave and Jake from VenueNow share their evaluation of www.relevanceai.com with Don and Duncan from Tribe Global Ventures.  The Ben AI YouTube channel referenced:  https://www.youtube.com/@BenAI92 hello@tribeglobal.vc      

In this week's episode:   Matt Vitale sets down and leaves Birchal.  Rise of the zombie VCs: Australian venture capital faces a year of reckoning.  LinkedIn is in danger of being swamped by AI-generated slop. Not all channels are equal    Meta removes fact checkers & scraps diversity policies Silicon Valley’s lurch to the right catches the eye of local VCs. Strategy is to learn and change as q...

In this episode of Founder Focus, we are joined by Dr Vu Tran .  Vu is a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Black Sky Industries , a leading Australian aerospace and defense company specializing in sovereign solid rocket propulsion systems and advanced manufacturing. Before co-founding Black Sky Industries, Vu Tran was a  co-founder of Go1, one of the world's leading online learning platform...

In this week's episode: 2025 predictions.  Employment Hero uses mostly scrip to acquire company.  Text to action AI will fundamentally change the world.  The Great UI overall because of AI Agents. AI and hardware working together to change the lives of people paralysed. People with more resilience live longer. Here are six ways to build it. Why first time founders can outperform multi founders. Be...

In this weeks episode:  Share price decline for accelerator Scalare Partners . Open AI goes down for 4 hours Satya Nadella on future of business apps in agentic era. After 2 years of talking about how important AI is, the government is going to spend the next 12 months developing a capability plan. Google announces quantum computing breakthrough. Resourcefulness over resources. Blackbird-backed HR...