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Released at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) in Istanbul, the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2018 features strategic startup, investment and policy insights from over 10,000 founders in 60 ecosystems – including New Zealand. With insights ranging from the fast-growing dominance of ICT verticals to the filling of critical gaps in Success Factors for both funding […]

Founder/s: James Fuller, Claire Fuller, Richard Freestone  HQ: Wellington, NZ What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Hnry is revolutionising the world of self-employment by bringing the world of tax and compliance in to the 21st century, effectively providing ‘self-employment in a box’ on a pay-as-you-earn basis. When you’re […]

Being able to sell is an essential skill for all entrepreneurs and one of the most common problems I hear from entrepreneurs, is how to handle sales objections from the customer. We asked sales expert Paul Newsom what entrepreneurs should do when a buyer raises an objection. Well, the key point here is that if […]

New cyber security survey finds almost one in four New Zealand SMBs experienced a cyber threat in 2017 and the average cost of cybercrime exceeded $15,500. 24 percent of New Zealand SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses) have experienced a cyber attack or hacking attempt compared to only 18 percent in the previous year, according to […]

AI disruption will have an extreme impact on New Zealand’s agriculture and health sectors in the next decade. That’s according to a white paper launched today by New Zealand’s innovation agency, Callaghan Innovation, which involved leaders in artificial intelligence (AI), including technical experts and business innovators. Released ahead of AI Day on 28 March, the […]

A solution to the issues New Zealand dairy owners are facing took out the Most Viable Business Award at the Soda Inc. Innes48 Start-up Competition at Wintec last night. The winning team, Creative Dragons traveled from China to compete in the 48-hour business start-up competition. They wasted no time in identifying and responding to the […]

Founders: Larry Green, Tim Turner, Ben Smith, Mike Newton HQ: Tauranga, NZ Tell us about your business. We are committed to helping Kiwis find the cheapest fuel prices closest to them with our convenient free App. The prices on Gaspy are crowd-sourced which means we rely on like-minded consumers to locate and share the best fuel prices in […]

This month the Practical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Paper – an online course for Kiwis striving for success built around “The Periodic Table of Innovation” – launches out of an innovation hub at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Co-founded by AUT Adjunct Professor and former advertising expert Mike ‘the Hutch’ Hutcheson, and educator, business mentor and […]