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GridAKL – at Auckland’s Innovation Precinct in Wynyard Quarter – has announced Generator as the operator of two new buildings opening in the precinct later this year. From September 2017, GridAKL will expand to occupy three buildings in the innovation precinct, bringing together a growing community of innovators, entrepreneurs, advisors and businesses ranging from start-ups through […]

The 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report was released earlier this year, benchmarking 45 of the world’s startup ecosystems on a range of metrics. In addition to ranking the worlds top 20 ‘startup hotspots’ from Silicon Valley (Ranked #1) to Tel Aviv (#5), Shanghai (#8) to Sydney (#17), the report provides some interesting insights into an additional 25 ecosystems, including New […]

If you work in sales, then managing a remote team is often simply a fact of life. And while working with a distributed team is never ideal, there are ways to make it work effectively. Here are a few suggestions that can make your remote sales team run like a well-oiled machine: Begin with the […]

Founder: Danni Whittaker HQ: Brisbane Tell us about your business. Fit Meet is a mobile app that connects people based on their sport and location to find training partners. I want to encourage and make it easier for people to become more active, by linking them up with accountability partners and making fitness more fun and more […]

Small and medium businesses don’t need multi-comma budgets to create an appealing brand culture, or to improve customer acquisition through social and digital campaigns. Just taking a few photos and allocating a few hundred dollars a month for ad spend isn’t going to work. Wondering why your ad spend isn’t resulting in sales? If it’s […]

Network NZ have announced their first annual New Zealand Business Awards, with nominations open from 30th June 2017. Network NZ is on the hunt for talented business owners that have invested in developing new products and services and ventures, as well as improving the performance of their people and teams. Business owners who have operated […]

There is a common conception that FinTech remains the preserve of the early adopter. It is certainly fair to arrive at this conclusion – after all, the media’s portrayal of FinTech is one of futuristic mobile payments, ethereal discussions about blockchain and ping-pong playing startups in Silicon Valley. However, I don’t think this conception is […]

There is not a salesperson in existence who hasn’t repeatedly heard of the need to ‘close the sale’. Every new sales manager must view the process of encouraging his/her sales force to ‘close the sale’ as an initiation into the profession. If you’re going to be a sales manager, you, therefore, must improve everyone’s ability […]