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☕ We made it - and we're finishing on a high! Your last Daily Shot for 2024 is packed with lessons from the year, and lots more: 💫 Wrapping 2024 and looking at what 2025 could bring with James Hurman Robbie Paul Sam Ramlu David Downs ❓ What the latest GDP figures mean for OCR projections (via RNZ) 😮 Microsoft acquires twice as many NVIDIA chips as tech rival 🥳 Elise Hilliam wins $10k Airwallex grant 📈 Hot stocks to watch and ones to drop (via NBR - National Business Review) ⛽ What to listen to, watch, read and drink over the weekend - and holidays! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gSyfJShp Massive thank you to all our supporters for a huge 2024! We'll be posting highlights over the break, and will be back on January 13. In the meantime, you can still subscribe for all your startup news here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gcJ4rC-z Appetise Taylor Fox-Smith

☕ We're almost there! The crawl to Christmas is nearly over...if that doesn't call for a Daily Shot, nothing does! Here's what you should know about today: ✨ Heather Gadonniex on how to make your startup 2025-proof 🫏 How Vanta scales compliance and makes it easy 💫 One New Zealand launches mobile Starlink service 💻 2024's best (and worst) gadgets (via BusinessDesk NZ Business of Tech pod 🎧 ) 😑 NZ ranked 33 out of 37 economies (via RNZ) 🦄 The 56 US unicorns from 2024 👀 What's up with all the unexplained drone sightings?? 🚀 SpaceX set for 7th Starship mission ⚡ Supreme Court to hear case on TikTok ban It's all here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gWxygYK3 A Caffeine Daily subscription helps us to share founder experiences to benefit the whole Aotearoa startup community. Prices start from less than $3 a week - see here for more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gqBKeSgY

☕ We're nearly there! The slog to the end of the year continues, and there's still plenty to talk about in the startup community. Here's your Daily Shot: ⚡ How Ara Ake is supporting NZ's energy innovation 💫 Previously Unavailable and Icehouse Ventures raising second Brand Fund 🫣 Treasury's grim economic forecast (via NZ Herald) 💥 Orion Health purchased in $200m deal 😶 Tech headline wrap: AI headline fails, SpaceX booms and EV updates (via Interest.co.nz) 🎧 Fleet Space Technologies co-founder Flavia Tata Nardini on Blackbird's Wild Hearts pod is SO good 👋 In recognition of non-AI startups It's all here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZcWcBsy How will you stay on top of the important startup news in 2025? A Caffeine Daily subscription is less than $3 a week, and helps us bring all the latest straight to your inbox every morning. Details 👉 https://lnkd.in/eE4_c9-F

☕ Right, Tuesday is on. Here's your Daily Shot of things to know about in the Aotearoa startup community: 😷 Kitea Health founder Simon Malpas on his world-first implantable brain sensor 🚫 The power of "no" ✨ Microsoft's Bret Arsenault praises NZ's AI approach (via NZ Herald) 👋 Job ads up but challenges still for job seekers 🤔 Inside NZ's most sustainable datacentre 👥 World's top tech CEOs visit Mar-a-Lago 💫 Fortune magazine names Calocurb CEO Sarah Kennedy on global power list 📖 Do you hear words when you read?? It's all here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gMuiKMzg 👐 How will you stay on top of the important startup news in 2025? A CAFFEINE subscription is less than $3 a week, and helps us bring all the latest straight to your inbox every morning. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/g_tWycZa

☕ A lot of talk about the last week before Christmas, but still plenty going on! Here's your Monday Daily Shot of news for the startup community: 🫠 Government facing deficit until 2029 ⛵ Emirates Team New Zealand ranked fifth on global sports tech list 😶 Job cuts at Callaghan Innovation 💫 The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024 💥 Major IT disruptions at Auckland Hospital 👋 Mass exodus from London Stock Exchange ✨ Cogo founder and CEO Ben Gleisner on advice, challenges and founder life 📽️ Hamish McKenzie's lessons for founders with TikTok's likely US exit And did we mention how great a paid CAFFEINE subscription is as a Christmas gift—for you and for us? Treat yourself to a whole year of knowledge for just $145—that’s the cost of a one-day conference or about 25 coffees. Go on, you deserve it! Today's Daily Shot 👉 https://lnkd.in/gKQBvtvQ

☕ Friday is here, and so is your Daily Shot. Let's get into it - this is what you should know about in the startup world today: 🔬 Minister Hon Judith Collins KC MP on how government is delivering for kiwi startups 💥 Microsoft opens "hyperscale" NZ data centre (via RNZ) 📈 The 2024 stockmarket winners and losers (via NZ Herald) 🎙️ NBR - National Business Review pod on the incoming neobank revolution 🕶️ Google announces Android XR platform ⛽ Your weekend fuel - inspiration for what to watch, read, listen to and drink as we head into the last week of the working year! Details here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g9HZEFQv

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☕ Free shots! Today's Daily Shot is free for all 🤗 So if you haven't subscribed, you can see what it's all about. And it's a bumper one today: 💫 How New + Improved Ventures gives founders the keys to a running car 🐴 Make compliance easy (and cheaper!) with Vanta 🛩️ Inside BETA TECHNOLOGIES's battery plane (via NZ Herald) 🚛 ANZ's Truckometer shows economy still slow (via RNZ) 🎧 The Business of Tech pod wraps 2024, looks ahead to 2025 (spot the Caffeine contribution 💁♂️ ) BusinessDesk NZ ⛴️ Bernard Hickey wraps NZ's ferry palaver 🤖 Google unveils next generation AI model 💪 MASSIVE raise for AI language-learning model 🎁 Upcoming AI announcements before Christmas 😵💫 Google's quantum chip suggests multiple universes exist. Yes, you read that right. It's all here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gR_6jsMY

🤩 Some of the best lessons for founders come from the experiences of other startups, and Tradify might be one of the best (in our humble opinion) 👀 Serge van Dam breaks down the Tradify journey, from early days to NZ's biggest ever exit, including all the elements of its success that other startups can replicate So much goodness in this one 👉 👉 https://lnkd.in/grthPKBa Curtis Bailey Adam Clark Graeme Ransley Robert Mark Ross Howard Denym Bird Alex Hamilton Michael Steckler Jason Graham Sarah Berkowski Karl Chaffey

☕ Time to rip into Wednesday - here's your Daily Shot of things to know about in the Aotearoa startup community: ✨ There's still a couple of days to enter the Airwallex $10k Business Acceleration Grant. This could be a serious leg up for early stage startups especially! 🧐 Serge van Dam with an excellent high level overview of the record-setting Tradify journey, including common elements that all startups can benefit from 😮 Google makes a massive breakthrough with its quantum computing chip, and it's seriously impressive - able to solve a problem in five minutes that takes the world's fastest computers longer than the age of our universe to complete 🥷 The number of scams reported are up, but losses are down - a great summary from the National Cyber Security Centre via NZ Herald 🏦 KPMG New Zealand report shows specialist lenders (i.e. non banks) optimistic about 2025 💃 Another fantastic Powrsuit podcast on "stealth networking" - how casual conversations can lead to real career opportunities (without the awkward networking vibes) Kristen Lunman Natalie Ferguson 🦖 Are we seriously getting close to bringing back extinct species?? More here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gQzA-9QT