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TIKI Newsletter Oct. 2022

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TIKI Newsletter Oct. 2022

Catch up on all things TIKI!

Shane Faria
Oct 20, 2022
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TIKI Newsletter Oct. 2022

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All has been quiet on the Western front when it comes to newsletters, but behind the scenes the TIKI team has been as busy as ever as we work toward the launch of our SDK—the first productization of the technology we’ve been hard at work creating for the past two years.

Before we dive into details about what’s been happening down in Nashville (and Ireland and Brazil!) I have a question for the readers out there: Should we send more of the Substack content to your inboxes? Initially, we didn’t want to send every piece of content to our subscribers so as to not bombard inboxes, but we’re happy to do so if that’s something people would like. This would include blogs, podcasts, and full-length newsletters. As we ramp up the team, content updates will be more and more frequent. Let us know below:

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Now, for the good stuff. We’ve been working overtime working toward a major milestone we like to call the Beachcomber Launch. Paying homage to our tiki bar roots (Mike thought of the name for the company while at a tiki bar in Boston, for those keeping score at home), Don’s Beachcomber was the first tiki bar established by Donn Beach (Don the Beachcomber) in California way back in 1933 after Prohibition had ended in the United States.

Our version of the Beachcomber (or, TIKI 1.0) consists of some major milestones and releases as well as updated strategies and messaging. The major components are as follows:

  1. Release of the TIKI SDK to the public

  2. Closing of our seed round

  3. Approval and establishment of the TIKI DAO

  4. Hiring of new team members

  5. New website and messaging

  6. New content strategy deployment

  7. Creation of educational content for users and developers (SDK)

  8. Party! Launch party at the TIKI office in Nashville

There’s some subtasks relevant to each portion of the Beachcomber launch, but, generally speaking, completion of the first 7 goals will lead to the 8th, a celebration for all that we have accomplished in our journey to un-fuck the internet. It’s been a wild ride so far.

Follow Ricardo’s Journey Developing the TIKI SDK

A few months ago, I told Ricardo that he should keep our Discord community updated weekly about what he has been working on as the lead mobile dev for the TIKI team. It’s turned into one of my favorite parts of our content. When you’re building something completely new, you rely not only on past knowledge but on your ability to adapt and learn on the fly. Ricardo has been growing immensely as a developer and it’s been a pleasure to witness his growth. - Shane

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TIKI SDK Tech Updates
Are you following the TIKI Discord? If not, you are missing weekly tech updates from Ricardo and weekly CEO updates from Mike. Never fear, if you don’t feel like joining our server and downloading another application, I’ve gone ahead and compiled the recent tech updates from Discord and migrated them here to Substack. …
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6 months ago · Shane Faria

Get to Know the TIKI Team

Over the past few months, we’ve focused a podcast episode on our core team members. Take a listen to get to know Mike, Shane, and Barry more in depth and stay tuned for the release of Ricardo’s episode, comin’ at ya very soon!

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TIKI Talk Ep. 32! It's-a Me, Shane Faria!
Listen now (80 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 32 features a role reversal, as Mike switches into the interviewer seat to learn more about TIKI co-founder and head of content, Shane Faria. Shane is presently writing about himself in the third person and feeling strange because of it…
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6 months ago · Shane Faria and Mike Audi
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TIKI Talk Ep. 33! Know Your Stars! CEO Mike Audi!
Listen now (51 min) | In TIKI Talk Episode 33, Shane gets personal with CEO Mike Audi. While Mike has done plenty of “Who are you and what do you do” podcasts and interviews for other publications, we’ve yet to really dig deep into what makes Mike tick. That is, until now…
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6 months ago · 1 like · Shane Faria and Mike Audi
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TIKI Talk Ep. 34! TIKI's Barry O'Connor!
Listen now (70 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 34 continues the theme of internal TIKI interviews with our own Commercial Lead “Blockchain Barry” O’Connor flying all the way into Nashville from Dublin exclusively for this 70-minute edition of the TIKI Talk podcast. Kidding; he was here for two weeks to get into the nitty gritty of the TIKI DAO (which we’ll dig into in a future podca…
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6 months ago · Shane Faria and Barry O'Connor

More Guest Podcasts!

We’ve continued our “Your Data, Your Story” series which features great stories and information from great guests.

  • Tech meets fashion with Trinity Wiles of Trinity Mototech,

  • TIKI investor and super fan, anesthesiologist Rikesh Govan talks data from a health tech perspective,

  • Warren Steury of Tri-Pillar Project and Media Farm stops back in to dish on strength, beauty, and wisdom as well as an insight into Freemasonry.

  • Clay Davis and Chad Cothron of the Kindred Spirits Podcast join Mike and cover everything from data analysis to trying to make it in NASCAR

  • Kathryn Rickmeyer of TennBEAT and the Greater Nashville Technology Council talks about how entrepreneurs can get their stories heard and understood, and

  • Opera-preneur Soula Parassidis sheds light on her revolutionary NFT project Magic Mozart and her goals with her innovative company, Living Opera.

SDK Inspirations

We go blog and podcast mode to give a better picture of what makes the TIKI SDK so powerful in the wake of Apple’s 2021 iOS 14.5 update.

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Apple Shook Up the Mobile Ad Market with iOS 14.5. TIKI Saw a Major Opportunity.
Here at TIKI, we are in prime position to fill an enormous vacuum left in the wake of the revolutionary privacy changes implemented by Apple with the release of their 2021 iOS 14.5 update (interesting quote in that article from some “Mike Audi” fella…
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7 months ago · Shane Faria
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TIKI Talk Ep. 28! Apple iOS 14.5 Breakdown and TIKI's Remedy for Businesses and Users
Listen now (45 min) | TIKI Talk Episode 28 builds off of Shane’s recent blog post on TIKI’s role in shaping the post-Apple iOS 14.5 landscape. Mike breaks down the historical background on the groundbreaking changes to data tracking put forward by Apple in June of 2021 and Shane and Mike discuss how TIKI is creating the infrastructure for brands to tell users exactly what the…
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7 months ago · Shane Faria

StartEngine Swag Update

For those who have responded to our survey on t-shirt and sweatshirt sizing, your merch has arrived at the TIKI office! Well, most of it, that is! Still waiting on a couple boxes after a mix-up by the distributor, but we will be shipping soon!

For those who did not respond, please check your inbox for an email sent on October 20th titled “URGENT 2ND REMINDER - STARTENGINE INVESTOR SWAG (TIKI)” for access to the survey. Those who don’t respond will be defaulted to a size large for both items, so please respond ASAP so we can get you the appropriate gear.

Bucket hats are also here, and stickers are en-route!

As a reminder, only those who invested $500-$999 receive a t-shirt, and only those who invested $1000+ receive the sweatshirt and bucket hat. All $500+ receive TIKI stickers.

Read What Our Investors Read!

Since TIKI prides itself on transparency, anyone can take a look at the updates we send out to our investors.

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Investor Update. October '22
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to our Investor specific updates, you can do so in your Substack settings. Last month I wrote about the productization of our technology: an SDK to enable other companies to add our decentralized data exchange (DEX) to their applications…
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5 months ago · 1 like · Mike Audi

‘Til next time!

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