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🚀 AI Productivity Hack: Automating Travel Buffers in Google Calendar 🚀 At CapXcentric, we’re all about operational efficiency—and our founder, Warwick D., just shared a game-changing productivity hack for busy founders, investors, and solo operators. 🔹 The Problem: Back-to-back meetings with auto-booking links meant sales or client calls would get scheduled just before in-person events—leaving no time for travel. 🔹 The Solution: Instead of manually adding and removing travel buffer events daily, Warwick used AI to build a Google Calendar Add-On App (without coding experience!) that automatically adds travel buffers to in-person events each morning. 💡 Bonus Tip: By color-coding calendar events and assigning labels, the app distinguishes in-person events from others, keeping schedules conflict-free. This small automation saves hours of stress and scheduling conflicts—one of the many ways we leverage AI to work smarter. How do you optimize your calendar? Let us know in the comments! #CapXcentric #AIProductivity #StartupHacks #Founders #Automation #TimeManagement

💡 The CapXcentric Capital Raise Playbook 💡 At CapXcentric, we’ve developed and refined a capital raise playbook—one that has been tested through 250+ debt and equity raises, totaling over $50B. Our founder, Warwick D., brings a unique perspective, having worked on every side of the capital raise table—from startups and VCs to family offices, private equity, and banks. He just published an article breaking down his 4-step approach to early-stage capital raising: 🔹 Pathway & Qualification 🔹 Preparation 🔹 Cultivation 🔹 Execution Check out the full article in the comments. Do you agree with this approach? What would you add? #CapXcentric #CapitalRaising #Startups #Fundraising #VC #PrivateEquity

Our founder and managing director, Warwick D. wrote a piece in Startup Daily on why CapXcentric is now a social enterprise and why we have decided to stay small to focus on providing the best quality outcomes with a select group of founders. https://lnkd.in/gwpNvNKx

Did you know: if you say "ESOP" 3 times in the mirror, yours will magically arrange itself into the most appropriately sized option pool for your business? There are millions of dollars in upside being left on the table by founders when it comes to ESOPs. It doesn't just *happen* ESOPs impact everyone from employees, investors, founders and the company. The implications of fucking it up can run into the millions of dollars for each party. CapXcentric founder Warwick D. runs through the requirements for the most appropriate way to think about an Employee Share Option Plan for your company, in this recent 'Aussie Startup Capital Nerd' blog. Don't not read it. Know it, breathe it in, say it three times: ESOP. SIZE. MATTERS. https://lnkd.in/gsEX8Uag

How long does it take to fundraise in Australia? Significantly longer than it takes to read this article by CapXcentric founder Warwick D., as he documents in his newsletter 'The Aussie Startup Capital Nerd' newsletter. SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER. https://lnkd.in/gesv8TPf

We hate wasting founders’ time, and that includes this LinkedIn post. Founders: Warwick D. writes all sort of technical and extremely useful articles as ‘The Aussie Startup Capital Nerd.’ Bloody read it. https://lnkd.in/gXxDze6E

A friendly reminder for all founders to prioritise yours and your teams health 👋

Let's talk about 2025, and the amount of time you'll need in advance to execute your successful fundraise in it. Early-stage (pre-seed and seed) venture capital is mostly about investing in the founding team and it takes time for investors to build the conviction in the founders required for investment. Founders who turn up asking for capital without any prior relationship or reputation (or the ability to leverage other’s relationships and reputations) will almost always lose out to those with existing multi-year relationships and reputations. The next time you see a capital raise announcement, ask yourself this: ⏰ How long the founders have been building the relationships? ⏰ How many years’ experience do they have in their domain to be able to execute this capital raise? Those founders have probably known some of their key investors for several years, have had 10+ years’ experience in their industry, spent a good few months preparing for their capital raise and another good few months to years nurturing relationships with investors in the lead up to the raise to then ‘execute’ the capital raise. Plus, to boot, a couple of weeks to a few months afterwards, to finish off the negotiations and paperwork required to close it all out and get the funds in the door. Read more c/o CapXcentric Founder Warwick D. on The Aussie Startup Capital Nerd Substack: https://lnkd.in/gesv8TPf

Start spreading the news (to WA DeepTech Founders): CapXcentric are bringing the 'DeepTech Founders Only' gathering to Perth, in a special West Tech Fest edition Wed 4th Dec. Warwick D. is in town to meet any and all fundraising founders preparing 2025 fundraises in the following frontier technology pursuits: Cyber Security, AI, MedTech, Life Sciences, AgTech, Energy & Environment, Space, AeroSpace, Advanced Materials, Robotics, Hardware, & other complex DeepTech and non-DeepTech areas. Warwick is also speaker at the Life Sciences WA & Innovate Medtech Masterclass ‘Developing Your Product and Company’ on the 29th November, before participating in West Tech Fest for the duration of the week. Any/all DeepTech founders, head along to meet each other, and let's have a caffeine fuelled nerd out session about frontier technology and the complex capital requirements that sustain continued growth and expansion! Link in Comments.

I know that when an investor asks a founder "pre-money or post-money" the nervousness starts to creep in.... then throw in a pointed question on the mechanics of a SAFE note and a silent panic attack is likely playing out. SAFE notes are meant to be simple but are actually quite complicated for most. That's why I write these technical capital raising articles for founders. I want to demystify a lot of what happens in the startup capital raising industry as clearly and simply as possible so that you have the confidence to have investor conversations. But honestly, experienced investors stuff this stuff up all the time too... So do I! I've been investing since I was 12 years old and have done 150 odd startup investments and I can still get some of this shit muddled. This article on pre-money and post-money SAFE notes is important to me as it is a topic that most service providers, investors and founders struggle to understand and articulate. I hope that is no longer the case. Would love to hear if this article was helpful? Cheerz big earz