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Visiting San Francisco with Kiwi Landing Pad

5/5/2019

Kiwi Landing Pad is located 981 Mission Street in SoMa at our new awesome coworking space Covo.

If you’d like to use Covo, just turn up and let them know that you are a guest of the Kiwi Landing Pad. You can do this regardless of if we are around or not. If the Kiwi Landing Pad seats are full for the day, hourly coworking starts for as little as $4 an hour.

You’ll have access to wifi which the community team at reception can set you up with.

You can book meeting rooms through the liquid space app.
They also have a coffee, wine bar and food available.

Also check out the events that the team host weekly from member lunches to Friday happy hours.

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Expanding? Questions to ask yourself.

5/5/2019

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Am I ready?
How much do I know about the market I'm going to/into?
Do I have sufficient resources? (capital and team and plan?)
Who has done this before that I might be able to talk to?
Are there any conferences in this space that I could attend?
Where do I focus?
Have I learnt enough from my recon trips?
What don’t i know?
Do I have a market map? Eg: who invests in my space? Partners? Competitors?
What do I want from the Kiwi Landing Pad?

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Partnership: Stripe Atlas & Kiwi Landing Pad, Incorporating in the USA.

7/3/2018

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There are lots of questions when establishing your business, and most don’t have black and white answers. We know these are serious decisions you’re making, and believe that the bureaucracy of business shouldn’t be a roadblock. We want to arm you with the tools that you need to get your company’s foundation right, so you can focus on the important stuff. This is why we’re proud to partner with Stripe, to bring you access to Stripe Atlas.

Stripe Atlas is one of Stripe’s newer products; the platform allows you to set up in the US, both as a Delaware C-Corporation or as an LLC. They also allow you to open a business bank account with Silicon Valley bank, and open a Stripe account immediately. Now, you’ll never need to leave your garage or coffee shop in New Zealand to have a full US entity and bank account; something no other company in the world offers.

In addition to this, Stripe has built a full suite of tools around post-incorporation. The legal entity and bank account is not where it ends, so they make sure early-day legal, tax and accounting processes can be managed through the platform. With Stripe Atlas you do everything from issue founder stock, to sort your corporate and Delaware franchise taxes. Stripe also partners with legal and accounting firms to provide straightforward advice for a much reduced cost, and tools like Gusto and Xero to provide straightforward advice and a well-lit path as you think about the necessary post-incorporation steps.

There are also the Stripe Atlas guides, which are a series of ‘encyclopedia entries’ to help you understand exactly what you need to do as you’re thinking about everything from hiring, to paying your taxes, to incorporation. This set of guides is available free to anyone here.

Being an entrepreneur is hard but access to tools is not. That’s why we’re proud to partner with Stripe to bring you the tools you need to grow great global businesses.

Follow this link to join Stripe Atlas using the Kiwi Landing Pad invite. Alternatively, you can find more information about the product here.

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Q: What were some of the things that led to your pivot? And where have you ended up to now?

10/5/2016

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Alliv Samson
COO & CoFounder
Kami

A: So we’ve actually pivoted a couple of times. The first pivot was from a focus on NZ’s higher-education market to being more US focused, and less specific on verticals. What led to that pivot was mostly the growth that we wanted. When we closed Notable [the first version of Kami] we had around 5000 users, and that’s within a years growth. And that’s not good enough. Now we get 5000 in a day or so. That’s the difference with the same amount of effort. So that was the first pivot.

The second pivot happened a couple of months ago. With Kami we were lucky because because everybody with a PDF or an online document could easily use our product. But unfortunately for us, with only four full-time employees we’re very constrained resources wise. We just couldn’t cover every industry and every type of user that we have. So we decided to narrow our focus. We’ll still support other types of users - but we will focus the business - marketing, sales, engineering and development - on the education market. So we’ve just basically refocused the entire business to the North American - mostly US - K12 market. We were growing before we made that decision, and now we’re growing even faster. It’s definitely been a big learning curve for us, but we’ve been happy with how it’s gone so far.

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Visiting San Francisco with Kiwi Landing Pad

Expanding? Questions to ask yourself.

Partnership: Stripe Atlas & Kiwi Landing Pad, Incorporating in the USA.

Q: What were some of the things that led to your pivot? And where have you ended up to now?

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