ICEHOUSE

expensive
'shit website'
OK content
small company - next level
mentoring / monthly meeting
pay for it - $500 pmonth?

gen IP or exporting
no interest in NZ-focuses biz's

no web focus
in Auckland
shoestring/lean/free

all about them
not sold to
why sign up?
lucky to be chosen
push their partners / advisors
no hightech advisors
tech on own
biz advisors etc

what are they --
landlord? VC? hardass? govt? picking winners?
no transparency?
what's tie-up with Auck Uni?
with govt?
govt-funded VC?
$US150k y-combinator
VC more or less guaranteed
parking bad, furniture bad


what does tech community want?
next level
who can we talk to?

NZTE?
financial?
networking?
pitch deck?
sniffing glue? / work on this...
cofounders
biz ppl
tech ppl
somebody doing biz/tech intro in WN

WINZ do/dont hae a scheme
5k capital grant
need to be on dole and to get off it

practical education? what's wanted?
SPARK program 1.5 times?
biz school icehouse collaboration
day course?
paid - reasonable money value

NZCE program?

maths
Rob Coup?

presenter == ??

@barnaclebarnes, @amatix, @szechuan, @leancto

podcasts - how is it going?

startupTV

success stories - and failure stories
why? who?

database of skills

database of resource people

NDA's

disjoint networks
us
govt networks
big biz nwk
Fonterra

booster seats ? SFO 1 month
Annie?
who do you see?
(Y Combinator)

what networks are they talking about?

accts
lawyers
local and intl money
distrubution
marketing
adv
sales

ICEhouse gets lots of govt funding

filtering?
who is committed to real biz (not Social Media Experts :) )
lots of fake angels in NZ

Good guy network

Lance - he's a good guy

personal recommendations

see other people - ~50 ppl - dont curl up and die

different colored stickers - monthly meeting?

1st Wednesday of month
talk thru sales pitch of how they assist startups

3000 new companies in NZ over what period?
want 1000 companies responsible for


Turn up to our events
Icehouse outside of the icehouse

mentoring adv 2 hours a week at $50ph?

have a new fund for super-early stuff

cut deals for circumstances

Grow Wellington - not many good ones

better Twitter presence?

not interested in the mobile apps space

$2-5M -plus money

feeding the funnel ? (Godin?)

Andy ????

untrusted
lack of transparency

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