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Sandy Geyer answers commonly asked questions from new entrepreneurs. “I’ve been told that people with certain personality types have a higher chance of being a successful entrepreneur than others. I want to start my own business but I’m concerned that my personality may mean I’m not cut out for entrepreneurship. I suppose I am quite […]

No doubt about it, entrepreneurship has become a much cooler “career choice” since the dotcom boom of the late 1990′s brought the glamorous and alluring “way of the entrepreneur’ back into the limelight. I say “career choice” in inverted commas because it’s actually about as far from the industrial and information age’s standard career path […]

Every entrepreneur dreams of running their own business someday, but many don’t even know where to begin to get the ball rolling. According to the infographic below, without a clear vision of your business’s future, your business will have a much more difficult time in staying above water, especially if you’re struggling with scalability. Unfortunately, […]

This interview was featured in Issue 7 of NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Great businesses are started every day when people act upon an opportunity. Toby Ruckert is a classically trained musician, entrepreneur and startup founder, helping you to take control of your inbox. 1) Toby, when did you start Unified Inbox and how did the idea […]

This interview was featured in Issue 6 of NZ Entrepreneur magazine. Great businesses are started every day when people act upon an opportunity. Michael Dowse co-founded language education startup Go Vocab, enabling him to explore several languages, as well as a few continents along the way. 1) When did you start Go Vocab and how […]

NZ Entrepreneur: Hi John-Daniel, what’s the story behind your business, how did it get started and why? How did the founders meet? John-Daniel Trask: Mindscape, which started Raygun was founded in early 2007 by Jeremy Boyd, Andrew Peters and I. We each took a third stake in the business. I had started working at Intergen […]

Great businesses are started everyday when people act upon an opportunity. We talk to the recently crowned Young New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year, Cecilia Robinson about her journey so far. NZ Entrepreneur: how did your business building journey begin and what inspired you to start creating businesses? Do you come from an entrepreneurial background? […]

Even if you haven’t heard of the multi-disciplined street artist, painter and fashion designer Flox (aka Hayley King) it’s highly likely you’ll be familiar with her work, distinctive for it’s flowing and colourful bird and flora themed graphics. Starting out with a weekend stall at the old Aotea Square markets in Auckland, was a founding […]