@evans_marke Congratulations. Already a wonderful season but no one will fancy playing them in the finals!
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Dean Dorrell
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Dean Dorrell
@DorrellD
Sydney based venture capitalist | Founder Carthona Capital | Rugby
Sydney, Australia Katılım Nisan 2009
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Drua win , beating the Reds 41-17 ,qualify for the playoffs in their second season and the whole of Suva goes slightly bonkers. It’s so joyful.
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@SBarnesRugby Can you imagine if this interpretation of the laws was made at every pick and go near the line? Yellow card every time. Ludicrous decision.
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The law is an ass and those who blindly obey it., donkeys.
Stephen Jones@stephenjones9
Sending off of Oli Woodburn today should set off an official response from RFU and WR in time to stop the big club finals and the RWC becoming a limp farce. Fusillade of objections from top players on social media. Just appalling call
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Help me out Twitter:
What are the best generative AI tools in Video and Audio?
Love your thoughts!
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TFW one of your portfolio companies signs an $8M+ deal and another one of your companies helped finance it.
Often overlooked in the capital game how connected are your capital partners, beyond "we can intro you to other VCs/capital"?
Choose your people wisely.
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@mattallen @nikiscevak Great to see you mate. An entertaining discussion as ever.
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Great trip to Sydney. So good to catch some investors, founders and friends irl.
Ambition is a strange thing, it was @nikiscevak that I first heard say that the best founders ambition ramps up as the opportunity presents itself.
Feeling it across multiple companies atm.
📈
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@SaysSmithy Cybersecurity problems are never gone. There’s always the next zero-day exploit. When you think you’ve got it solved, you’re just not looking hard enough…..
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Storing this away in the "comments that came back to bite them" file.
Financial Review@FinancialReview
ANZ boss Shayne Elliott says the big end of town has largely addressed the problem of cybersecurity while small businesses are intimidated by the challenge. bit.ly/3CvwXuL
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"This America, man"
Jack Herron@jwherron10
What The Wire quote do you randomly say out loud? This one should be interesting 🤔
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Happy Birthday to this world class troublemaker @dallaglio8
Anyone know he had fantastic curly hair?!
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Want to see me smile? Let me know when you’ve donated a 4 pack of beer to surprise and thank a hard-working Australian hospital worker helping keep us safe from #Covid19 and I’ll send you a big smiley thumbs up from me and @goodbeerau #_=_" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thegoodbeerco.pozible.com/project/a-good…
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@TheBlade27 @paulturnerrugby Norm was one of the best. At many things.....
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I missed marking that yesterday was sadly the 4th anniversary of the passing of Norm Hadley!I actually had a dream about him last night- slightly weird we were playing for Canada but in Australia strip against the All Blacks!We still lost! but focal in the dream ...was the fact
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Dean Dorrell retweetledi
.@GrowthList features Mawson portfolio company @replica_ai in their "Hottest startups that got funded in December 2019" report. Out of 100 startups in the report, 15% are in AI & Replica was the only startup featured from Australia #startupaus growthlist.co/funded-startup…
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@benedictevans interesting comparative value. 1979: Atari £155, average UK wage £7,315; 2019 PS4 bundle £209, wage £36,611. 7.73 1979 working days for Atari, 2.08 2019 working days for PS4. Experience slightly better too! Inflation gone... #page=34" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">argosbookofdreams.co.uk/1979-80.html#p…
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Great news from a great bunch of people. Congrats @dpetre @craigRblair @jamesdcameron @johnhenderson @emilycclose
Airtree@airtreevc
🥁 BIG NEWS FROM AIRTREE: We're announcing our 3rd fund of $275m to back the next wave of game-changing founders! HOORAY!! 🥳🍾 Read Craig's post about it here: bit.ly/2qtFuP7 @craigRblair #onwardsandupwards
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@YolandaRedrup Well done! How many pieces today? 6? You’re a legend!
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Today was my final day running the tech section solo for the last 4 weeks. It’s been a slog, but I made it! Managed to get the pages away early enough to get a run in tonight and was treated to this view ☀️🏃♀️
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@bigyahu We’ve done some work on this and we close far more deals in the run up to the end of the year than in the few quarter. We once closed 4 deals on Christmas Eve!
If you haven’t got your deal closed before Xmas you should really worry if it’s ever going to close or expect Feb/March
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The good news: summer can be a great time to enjoy the outdoors and family time in Australia. The bad news: it can be a hard time to raise angel and venture investment in Australia. Here’s why...
buff.ly/2nHFb23
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Looking forward to discussing the forthcoming Rugby World Cup at the AIC conference today event.crowdcompass.com/aic2019/post/i…
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