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Catch up with all the webinars, podcasts, articles and write ups from our network of founders, investors, advisors and partners.

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Jeff Wallace

Co Founder

Silicon Valley in Your Pocket

Jeff Wallace

Samantha Gadd

Founder

Humankind

Founder Story

Owen Evans

CTO

Timely

Building your team

Zach Warder-Gabaldon

Founder

Zia Innovation

Building a Healthtech Startup

Casey Davies-Bell

Founder

Amplifier

AMA: Current Startup Scene in Austin TX

Jon Davies

CEO

InsuredHQ

Operating a Saas in the Pandemic

Ruby Kolesky & Kevin Norris

Joyfully

Ruby Kolesky & Kevin Norris | Joyfully

Phil Thomson

Co-founder & Co-CEO

Auror

Phil Thomson, Co-founder and Co-CEO at Auror

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Rod Drury

Cofounder & CEO

Xero

Founder Series

Lauren Vaccarello

CMO

Talend

Accelerating Revenue Growth

Nick Crocker

General Partner

Blackbird Ventures

Session One: How to tell your story in an investor pitch deck

Nick Crocker

General Partner

Blackbird Ventures

Session Two: pitch coaching LIVE

Bernard Hickey

Founding Director

The Kākā

Changes on the Economy | Business and Consumer Demand

Terry Allen | Charles Haddrell

Investment Director | Customer Director

NZTE Trade and Investment Insights

Rob Vickery

Founder & Managing Partner

Hillfarrance Venture Capital

Hillfarrance Venture Capital

Katie Gatt

Cofounder

Thinkladder

How to maintain mental wellness during a pandemic

Founder Series

Samantha Gadd

Founder

Humankind

Founder Story

Phil Thomson

Co-founder & Co-CEO

Auror

Phil Thomson, Co-founder and Co-CEO at Auror

James Fuller

Co-Founder

Hnry

Scaling your Startup | James Fuller, Co-Founder @ Hnry

Emily Blythe

Founder

Pyper Vision

Founder Story

Angie Judge

Founder

Dexibit

Founder Story

Erik Zydervelt

Co-Founder

Mevo

Founder Story

Sarah Perry & Chris Leonard

Co-Founders

SnapComms

Bootstrapping a Global Business,

John Wikstrom

Founder

Magic Memories

Rebound from Covid Impacts

Jessica Manins

CEO & Co-Founder

Beyond

Working with VR

Vaughan Fergusson

Founder

Vend

Founder Life

Aleks Dahlberg

Cofoudner

Sahha

Mitigating Mental Health Risks as a Founder

Mat Weir

Founder

First Table

Scaling Internationally | Mat Weir, Founder at First Table

James Fuller

Cofounder & CEO

Hnry

Founder Story | Hnry | James Fuller, Cofounder & CEO

Rachel O'Shea

Cofounder & COO

Yabble

Founder Series - Liberating the world's data for research

Lane Litz

Founder & CEO

Chatterize

Founder Series

Jake Stent

Founder

Kelsey Lane Creamery

Founder Series

Levi Fawcett & Nathan Taylor

Cofounders

Partly

Disrupting $1.9T Automotive Parts Industry

Hadleigh Ford

Founder & CEO

SwipedOn

Founder Series

Colin Magee

Cofounder & CE

Catalist

Founder Series

Frances Valintine

Founder

Tech Futures Lab

Innovation and Emerging Technologies

Philip Fierlinger & Duncan Ritchie

Co CEOs | Upstock

Founder Series

Greg Sheehan

Founder & CEO

PlayBooks

Founder Series

Luke Campbell

Cofounder & CEO

VXT

Founder Series

Jacob Manning & Abbe Hyde

CEO & CTO

Winely

Founder Series

Joyce Quah, David Downs, & Naadei Atafu.

Cofounders | SoS Business

$1.5m Revenue in 6 Weeks | Standing Up For Local Biz

Lisa King

Founder & CEO

Eat My Lunch

Adaptability and Leadership

Mike Carden

Serial Founder

Joyous

Governance During a Pandemic

JD Trask

Cofounder & CEO

Raygun

Where Are They Now? Founder Series

Ned Dwyer & Dave McManus

Founders

Spritz & Tuki

'I Killed My Startup' | A Post Mortem

Guy Horrocks

Founder / CoFounder

Solve / Carnival Labs

Founder Series

Steven Newman

Cofounder & CEO

Eroad

Founder Series

Campbell Brown

Cofounder & CEO

PredictHQ

Founder Series

Carmen Vicelich

Founder & CEO

Valocity Global

Founder Series

Ryan Baker

Cofounder & CEO

Timely

Founder Series

Siobhan Bulfin

Founder & CEO

Melon Health

Founder Series

Angie Judge

Cofounder & CEO

Dexibit

Founder Series

Alyona Medelyan

Cofounder & CEO

Thematic

Founder Series

Kendall Flutey

Cofounder & CEO

Banqer

Founder Series

Aaron Ward

Cofounder & CEO

AskNicely

Founder Series

Kirsti Grant

Cofounder & CEO

Populate

Founder Series

Richard Francis

Founder & CEO

Spotlight Reporting

Founder Series

Jamie Beaton & Sharndre Kushor

Cofounders | Crimson Education

Founder Series

Elizabeth Iorns

Founder & CEO

Science Exchange

Founder Series

Victoria Ransom

Founder & CEO

Wildfire

Founder Series

Jonny Hendriksen

Founder & CEO

Shuttlerock

Founder Series

Mike Carden | John Holt

Cofounders

Sonar6

Founder Series

Rod Drury

Cofounder & CEO

Xero

Founder Series

Ezel Kokcu

Founder

Passphere

Founder Series

Tarik Mallett

CEO

Mobi2Go

Founder Series

Rich Chetwynd

Cofounder & CEO

ThisData

Founder Series

Alliv Samson

Cofounder & COO

Kami

Founder Series

Sam Gribben

Founder & CEO

Melodics

Founder Series

JD Trask

Cofounder & CEO

Raygun

Founder Series

Cameron Priest

Cofounder & CEO

TradeGecko

Founder Series

Culture

Anna Guenther

Women in Export Lead

NZTE

Supporting Women in Business

Collette Zaro

Founder

Bliss Talent

Remotely Managing & Hiring Staff

Nicholas Lane

Product Owner

Xero

From school to startups

Emily Mason

Founder

Frank Advice

Social Impact in Startups

Tom King & Emma Barnes

Enspiral Dev Academy

Hiring Devs

Rebecca Pan

CEO & Founder

Trellis Workspace / Covo

The current world of San Francisco | Rebecca Pan | CEO & Founder of Trellis Workspace & Covo

Mahanga Maru

Executive Leadership and Commercial Pilot

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori | Embracing Te Reo

Trent Mankelow & Elliot Whiley

Summer of Tech

Hiring Top Interns

Tristan Pollock

Head of Community

CTO.ai

Movement Builder | Impact Tech | Startup & Accelerator Coach

Rachel Garrett

Time Lead

Shopify

Working From Home & Remote First Culture

Elizabeth McNaughton

Cofounder

Hummingly

Resilience During Crisis

Alex Burke

CEO

Education Perfect

Adaptability & Leadership Series

Katie Gatt

Cofounder

Thinkladder

How to maintain mental wellness during a pandemic

Heidi Renata

CEO

INN0V8HQ

Adaptability and Community Leadership

J. Ryan Williams

Silicon Valley Executive Coach

ChurroMedia

Founder Scaling

Craig Hudson

Managing Director

Xero

Being a Country Manager at Scale

Sara Clemens

Chief Operating Officer

Twitch

What is a COO/GTM Strategy

Jennifer Mumford

People Development Lead

SafetyCulture

Building a High Performance Startup Culture

Joshua Zerkel

Head of Global Community

Asana

Live Q&A: Building Community at Asana & Evernote

Product

Symon Thurlow

Co-Founder & CEO

Parallo

Cloud Infrastructure as a Founder

Sarah Ramsay

CEO

United Machinists

Manufacturing Startups in NZ

Stephany Yong

Product Lead

Glossier Inc

Measuring What Matters – How every product manager should be a growth PM

Ketki Duvvuru

Product Manager

Gusto

Move Slow to Move Fast - From Product Strategy to Execution

Robbie Allan

Senior Product Manager

Intercom

Approaching Mobile for Non-Mobile Companies

Eachan Fletcher

CEO / Former CTO

NestEgg | Expedia

What I wish I knew about Product Roadmaps five years ago

Andrew Tokeley

formerly Global Head of Product

8i

Product Leadership

Philip Fierlinger

Cofounder & Design Guru

Xero

Product Design Playbook: Making magic & shipping it

Kate Taylor

Product Manager

Twitter

B2C: Understanding Your Users To Drive Meaningful Growth

Zheng Li

VP of Product

Raygun

Product Managers’ Guide To Taming Fires And Winning Friends

Vidya Dinamani

Product Innovation Coach

The Product Manager – What the heck is that, and what do they really do?

Sales

Greg Fahey

Cofounder & CEO

Bison

Selling Internationally From NZ

Ash Alhashim

President

BFG Consulting

Building and Refining a Durable Revenue Model for B2B

Aaron Ross

Best Selling Author

Book: Predictable Revenue

The Playbook to Re-Ignite Growth

Greg Cross

Chief Business Officer

Soul Machines

The Art of Commercialisation

Tanya Neary

People Geek

Culture Amp

Two In a Box: The Magic of a Good SDR & AE Relationship

Matt Cameron

Managing Partner

SalesOpsCentral

Managing Your First Head of Sales

Emmanuelle Skala

SVP Customer Success

Toast

10 key tips to building your first successful sales team

Audrey Melnik

CEO

Funnel Ventures

Funnel Hacking: More Crucial than Growth Hacking

Aaron Ross

Best Selling Author

Predictable Revenue

How You Create Predictable and Exponential Revenue Growth

Ralph Barsi

Global Inside Sales Leader

Sales Playbook

Sales Development: Own Your Brand, Your Time, & Your Focus

Daniel Barber

VP of Revenue

Node.io

Your Sales Process is not your Strategy

Marketing

Sian Simpson

Founder

Public Rally

Building Communities

Gemma Browne

Head of SMB

Socialites

Social Media for Startups

Lauren Vaccarello

CMO

Talend

Accelerating Revenue Growth

Tim Dorrian

Managing Director

Aro Digital

Digital Marketing for Startups - Low Cost and No Cost Strategies

Deborah Findling

Head of Content

SaaStr

How SaaStr creates content for large scale SaaS conferences

Vanessa Thompson

Director of Product Marketing

Twilio

Product Marketing: Why, When, What

James Hurman

Founder

Previously Unavailable

Storytelling: How to find your story and why it matters

Tim Doyle

Head of Marketing

Koala.com

Building a Customer Acquisition Engine

Cassie Roma

Head of Content Marketing

The Warehouse Group

Storytelling, Social Media & Growing Your Brand in The Long-term

Patrick Whatman

Content Marketing

Mention.com

How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy for B2B Businesses

Cath Carlsen & Fallon Savery

Sales & Marketing Ops

Vend

Operations: it’s the glue between marketing and sales

Simon Pound

Partner

Previously Unavailable

Using brand as a tool to differentiate and push past best practice

Anthony Kennada

CMO

Gainsight

How to Leverage Brand Marketing to Fuel B2B Growth

Nick Houldsworth

GM of Ecosystem

Xero

How to build a team for 100 customers and scale it to 10,000 customers

Bill Rundle

Senior PR Manager

Oracle

US PR 101: How to Sell Your Startup to Tech Media

Pat Macfie

Global Director of Media

Xero

The Video & Content Era - Debunking the hype

Menaka Shroff

VP of Global Marketing

Betterworks

'How To Actually Get More Leads'

Fabian Eckstrom-French

Head of Agency Partnerships

Bizible

B2B Marketing Performance Management

Matt Heinz

President

Heinz Marketing

Full Funnel Marketing

Joseph Cole

VP of Marketing

TapInfluence

10 Things You Need To Know About Influencer Marketing

Tim Lamb

Marketing Expert

How To Scale Your Business In The US With Marketing Automation

Malika Sharma

SEO Expert

Marketing Mythbusters: How to make SEO work for your business

Tao Lin

Business Journalist

Fairfax

Making Headlines: What makes news and how startups can get amongst it

Tami McQueen

Director of Marketing

SalesLoft

Marketing Mythbusters: How to Build a Content Machine

Fundamentals

Owen Evans

CTO

Timely

Building your team

Jon Davies

CEO

InsuredHQ

Operating a Saas in the Pandemic

Evan Cummack

CEO

Fin

Building a Company

Tim Wixon

Head of Tech Industry

BNZ

Navigating "Assets" as a Startup & Getting the Best Out of a Bank

Sian Simpson & Kate Kendall

Atto Accelerator

Building Female Founders

Bernard Hickey

Founding Director

The Kākā

Changes on the Economy | Business and Consumer Demand

Marvin Liao

Silicon Valley VC Investor & Tech/Media Executive

New Realities For Startups

Tim Wixon

For High Potential Businesses

BNZ

Head of Tech Industry at BNZ

Rebecca Freeman

Principal Attorney

San Francisco Law Group

United States Immigration | New E1 and E2 Visas for Kiwis

Marvin Liao

Partner

500 Startups

Applying To 500 Startups

Michael Seibel

CEO

Y Combinator

Applying To Y Combinator: Why? How? Tips and Tricks?

Daniel Barber

Cofounder & CEO

DataGrail

Privacy and the GDPR

Andrew Simmonds

Partner

Simmonds Stewart

Tools, Tricks, Resources and Legal Templates, making legal life easier

Collette Meyers

Recruitment Manager

Russell Tobin

The US Job Market for Kiwi’s

Rebecca Freeman

Principal Attorney

San Francisco Law Group

United States Immigration 101

Investment

Nick Crocker

General Partner

Blackbird Ventures

Pitch Deck Evaluation

Phoebe Harrop

Venture Investor

Blackbird Ventures

Coffee to Term Sheets | Blackbird

Emily Heazlewood

Director Partnerships & Growth

Snowball Effect: Raising private, public, or a top-up round with Snowball Effect

Rob Vickery

Founder & Managing Partner

Hillfarrance Venture Capital

Hillfarrance Venture Capital

Nick Crocker

General Partner

Blackbird Ventures

Session One: How to tell your story in an investor pitch deck

Scott Nolan

Partner

Founders Fund

Startup Funding Landscape

Sam Wong

Partner

Blackbird VC

Details for the New Zealand Fund & What investors ask post the coffee meeting

Nick Crocker

General Partner

Blackbird Ventures

Session Two: pitch coaching LIVE

Rowan Simpson

Founder

OneMetric.io

Metrics That Matter: Asking Better Questions and Telling Better Stories

Go To Market

Jeff Wallace

Co Founder

Silicon Valley in Your Pocket

Jeff Wallace

Rebecca Freeman

San Francisco Law Group

US Immigration for Kiwis

Ruth Macleod & Savannah Peterson

NZTE & Savvy Millennial

Growing through SFO

Matt Kirmayer

Partner

Perkins Coie

Establishing your startup in the US

Tristan Pollock

Head of Community

CTO.ai

Climate Tech, the US Market and all things Startup

Terry Allen | Charles Haddrell

Investment Director | Customer Director

NZTE Trade and Investment Insights

Jason Lemkin

Founder | Investor

SaaStr | EchoSign

SaaStr

Campbell Brown | Predict HQ

Alyona Medelyan | Thematic

Founders

Going to Market, San Francisco and Silicon Valley

Sarah Heck

Head of Entrepreneurship

Stripe

Growing Global with Stripe

Customers

Kirsty Traill

Startup Advisor

Customer Experience

Mindy Leow

Head of Community

BCorp

Future Consumer | Multi-Stakeholder Business Models

Steve Hopkins

Director of Customer Success

Culture Amp

How Customer Success Changes with Growth

Kirsty Traill

VP of Customer

Hootsuite

Optimising Your Customer Experience at Every Stage of The Customer Journey

Ask Me Anything

Zach Warder-Gabaldon

Founder

Zia Innovation

Building a Healthtech Startup

Casey Davies-Bell

Founder

Amplifier

AMA: Current Startup Scene in Austin TX

Shane Tracey-O'Connell & Daniel O'Brien

AWS Activate

AWS Activate - Overview and AMA

Kyle Campbell

Founder

CTO.ai

AMA How to level up your startup’s dev team

John | Lilia | Casey

Founders

Kiwi Landing Pad

Kiwi Landing Pad AMA | 2020 Highlights and Plans for 2021

John & Casey

Founders

Kiwi Landing Pad

AMA - Founders Figuring out the Future

John Holt & Sian Simpson

Kiwi Landing Pad

Ask Me Anything | May 2017

John Holt & Sian Simpson

Kiwi Landing Pad

Ask Me Anything | July 2017

John Holt & Sian Simpson

Kiwi Landing Pad

Ask Me Anything | April 2017

John Holt & Sian Simpson

Kiwi Landing Pad

Ask Me Anything | March 2017

John Holt & Sian Simpson

Kiwi Landing Pad

Ask Me Anything | Sept 2017

Sian Simpson | Emily Blythe

KLP | Limpidity

Community Takeover, an #AskMeAnything

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