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New Zealand moved to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday, 27 April.  FAQs received from our members about operating businesses under Alert Level 3 below. Am I able to apply for the COVID-19 Leave Support scheme for my employees? As of 28 April, the COVID-19 Leave Support scheme covers all workers (outside of […]

A lot of clients, particularly those based in the US, ask us about confidentiality agreements that include a time limit on the confidentiality obligations (usually between three and five years). Time limits are particularly common in the tech sector, where technology tends to move and evolve more quickly. Although commonly used, it is worthwhile to […]

Community members from all over Aotearoa are coming together to tackle the new challenges created by Covid-19 in the first-of-its-kind Techstars Global Online Startup Weekend series. Next weekend, participants from all over Aotearoa will come together online to form teams, solve problems, and build startups, all with the goal of tackling the challenges created by […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented more challenges than we would like to mention. But it has also provided business owners with a unique opportunity that they wouldn’t have had otherwise – reimagine their business with a clean slate. Stepping away from the day-to-day running of a business may seem impossible when business is running as […]

New Zealand startup ecosystem members have teamed up with Good Startups to help Kiwi tech entrepreneurs move from fear to creativity in a 4-week online programme. The programme, Breaking Through the Pandemic, is being coordinated by Athena X Ventures, an online platform helping women and over-looked founders connect and build on key entrepreneurial skills. Founder […]

Generation Z are often told how others see them, but how do they see themselves? To find out, I developed a survey, while working at Young Enterprise, that over 600 young Gen Z (1995-2010) entrepreneurs responded to. The results reveal a tension within the cohort, both in terms of identity and sense of control. It […]

Online investment marketplace Snowball Effect, has launched Snowball Debt, a range of bespoke debt solutions to support SMEs and high growth businesses impacted by COVID-19. Having raised over $70m in capital for more than 45 Kiwi businesses, Snowball Effect has developed this new suite of services in response to the challenging and uncertain economic environment. […]

Founder: James Burnes HQ: Queenstown, NZ When COVID-19 began to shut down the global economy, governments took the extreme step of ordering businesses to shut down that were deemed non-essential. This had a twofold affect: 1) A very limited number of large scale grocers and pharmacies took on the work of exclusively supplying an entire […]