Flying Kiwi Angels have just completed their due diligence on Moxion. LPs have voted unanimously to make this our 10th portfolio company. Moxion is a game changer for film and TV production cutting the delivery time of on-set footage aka dailies from 24 hours to under 2 minutes.

We all know customer testimonials are one of the best ways of endorsing our sales and marketing messages. Indeed, when I look at startups pre-revenue as an angel investor I often only have qualitative customer testimonials to go by before real volume sales kick in. I think there are two principal types of testimonials that I'll call authority and authenticity.

All of the news about online data breaches of large corporations and government entities is a reminder to startups and small organisations, like angel groups, to think more about protecting their own data. 

Rudi Bublitz, David Russell and Heath Milligan storming to Global Startup Battle.  A re-post of this original blog for SWAKL 2013.

As co-founder of a UK based SAP consulting practice we built from 2 to 400 plus staff within 9 years, I learned all about TEAM WORK.
The rapid growth could only be managed by a strong lead team that brought a complementary mix of skills and dynamic vision to build a flexible yet robust business.  Within the first six months we added a counter balance to us two gung-ho co-founders, single and happy to take risk and to take on the world, with a safe pair of hands.