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Four of the country’s top female entrepreneurs will go head-to-head for the opportunity to represent New Zealand on the world stage as the 2019 MYOB Woman Entrepreneur of the Year. The award – hosted by The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) and presented by innovation accelerator Mahuki and fintech company MYOB […]

Listen on Soundcloud It would be fair to say Anthony Baxter has learnt a thing or two about entrepreneurship, since launching his digital marketing agency “Firefly” from an Auckland bedroom in 2014. Aged just 23 at the time of launch, and now 28, Baxter has since grown that initial $100 investment into an agency with 15 […]

Blockchain venture studio Centrality, hopes New Zealand’s first blockchain accelerator programme will be a launchpad to global opportunities for Kiwi startups. Blockchain is often misunderstood to be synonymous with Bitcoin. As a result, and due in part to the recent hacking of New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, some opinions about the blockchain industry have taken […]

Christmas is long gone and the short weeks caused by public holidays are behind us until April. Before you plan the rest of your year, it’s time to take stock and look at conducting this ever-important “annual health check” on your business. The current New Zealand economic climate is buoyant and businesses are well positioned […]

Listen on Soundcloud Founder/s: Brittany Earl, Taylor Abernethy, Gerard Molloy HQ: Auckland What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Joblist is an online marketplace (website and app) that connects people who need odd jobs and other tasks completed, with people who are after extra work or income. From gardening, […]

Independent equity research firm Shareclarity today announced the launch of its industry-first augmented reality and voice recognition research app. It will enable users to access a wealth of investor related information in an instant and without searching or typing. Shareclarity, a finalist in the 2016 Payments New Zealand Fintech Innovation Challenge, provides crowd-based and cloud-based […]

The pressures of running a small to medium sized business are having an impact on the mental health and overall wellbeing of business owners, says accounting software provider MYOB. According to the tech company’s latest Business Monitor snapshot of small and medium sized business owners, nearly a third (31 percent) report experiencing a mental health […]

A tried and true marketing tactic has enabled Auckland-based sparkling water startup Vista to secure a significant investment from luxury property developer and investor Kurt Gibbons. Vista, the brainchild of three Auckland schoolmates turned business partners, was developed in late 2017 after the co-founders saw a gap in the market for a flavoured sparkling water […]