Oxygen Advisors

Lets finally get a straight answer to the question, what should I pay myself as a founder! I asked the question a few weeks ago and almost all of the responses were that its tough to know. I'm excited that today Oxygen Advisors is partnering with LiveRem to launch the NZ Founders Salary Report. If you are a founder who wants to know or just wants to help other founders get clarity please get involved! 💡 How do I take part? 1. Sign up to LiveRem (there’s a free subscription) 2. Integrate your payroll or HR data 3. Map your roles (tag that you’re founder) 3. Join the NZ or AU Founders Community in the LiveRem platform 4. Start accessing insights! If you part take before the end of this year, you'll be a part of the first report 🙌 I'll drop a link in the comments on where to sign up!

For mental health awareness week this year Chameleon Creator partnered with Groov to create a free learning module around spotting burnout and steps to prevent it. Highly engaged employees are usually at a higher risk of burnout, as they love their job and give it everything. I heard recently from performance psychologist Dr Jim Loehr, EdD that “big energy spenders also need be big savers”. If you are putting a lot in, you need to be even more deliberate about setting time aside to recharge. Unfortunately most of us tend to do the opposite when things get tough – try to power through, and skip breaks because we're so stressed. One of the helpful mindset shifts for myself as a leader is to manage my calendar to energy levels, rather than time (i.e. jam in as much as possible). I try to be intentional about how I plan my calendar and weekly priorities, to make sure I have gaps inbetween 1-1s, team meetings or customer calls, set time aside for lunchtime walks, and exercise after work. It is so important for the mind and body to have time to relax and refresh. If you've ever worked out with a burned out leader, you know the team suffers if the leader is not feeling well or performing at their best.   Great to collaborate with workplace experts Dr Fiona Crichton, Sir John Kirwan, and Ian Bishop on this module to share some suggestions on dealing with burnout in the workplace. Link in comments, hope it helps your colleagues 😊

90% 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐋 🥲 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 3% 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 🤯 🚀 For 8 years, ⁠Oxygen Advisors⁠ has stood behind over 100 New Zealand startups 🤔 Amazingly, only 3% of their startup portfolio has not survived and we wanted to know why. In this episode, we chat with ⁠Matt Dold the founder, and Mike Mandis the co-CEO. 💼 As the founder and Director at Oxygen Advisors, Matt has been at the forefront of empowering start-ups and high-growth businesses across New Zealand for over a decade. Matt has served as a Director, Advisor, and CFO partner to many of New Zealand's most successful high-growth companies such as Auror, Thematic, ArchiPro, WOOP, Thundergrid | A Landis+Gyr Company, CONQA, Weirdly, Preno, Wipster and many more. 💰 Mike, is co-CEO at Oxygen Advisors. Over the past four years, he has helped technology companies raise over $150m in capital and has supported companies scaling globally from pre-revenue to $15m+ ARR. 💬 We discuss all these things and more on this must-see episode. 👉🏻 Follow Matt Dold 👉🏻 Follow ⁠Mike Mandis 👉🏻 Follow ⁠Oxygen Advisors 📺 Watch the full episode on YouTube or listen on Spotify with 🔗 in the comments below 👇🏻 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐲: 🎙: Troy Hammond 🎥: Jono Tucker 💰: Talent Army

Big thank you to Oxygen Advisors and Harmoney today. Especially to Katherine Finstad and Mike Mandis, who organised four laptops that are now with Edmonton Primary and Liam Hogg and Shav, who organised the ten screens that we dropped off at Waitakere College. A big day out with Bentley, the delivery dog, being very keen on cuddles from everyone. We still need more laptops for kids in schools, so if you think you or your company could help, reach out at www.thelaptopdrop.nz