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Working for yourself as an entrepreneur is a dream shared by the majority of people who have worked for someone else and I know because I was one of them. I was working in a windowless office in a dead-end job working for an organisation that cared little for me. I’m incredibly lucky that I’ve […]

Each month, entrepreneur mentor Sandy Geyer answers a question from #nzentrepreneur readers… I’m not sure if it’s just me that feels this way but why is it that most employees are so lazy and don’t use their common sense? What’s the point in hiring people when I just end up having to do their jobs […]

To round off 2015 we spoke to Richard Liew, founder of NZ Entrepreneur and NZ Sales Manager magazines. You’ve started four businesses over the last 15 years. Can you tell us a bit about how your entrepreneurial career started? I have always wanted to live life on my terms and of all the ways to […]

You may already know that 93 percent of New Zealanders will research their buying decisions online before making a purchasing decision (that counts for business to business too). You may also know that some companies are making a bundle of sales off their internet traffic, while others are getting nothing – not a sausage. Zip. […]

Tell us a bit about OOMPHER, the business you just recently sold to the government? OOMPHER is a digital media company with a vision that ‘less people die wondering what they could have achieved’. I set out to inspire students to do extraordinary things through Wise Words from leaders in their fields. The problem I […]

What’s your picture of what the average entrepreneur is like? Here’s 12 facts from a report titled The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur. It’s based on a survey done by the Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, of 549 company founders across a variety of industries. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40. 95.1% of respondents themselves had […]

As an entrepreneur it is your job to build a profitable, replicable and scalable business, providing a solution to a problem or need people want to solve. By definition, your business can have no value, if there are not enough people who value what you offer. This is just basic logic. Nothing new here. And this […]

This is a follow-up from an article in our May 2015 issue which discussed results of interviews with high profile entrepreneurs and their experience of Tall Poppy Syndrome. Jodyanne Kirkwood & Tarja Viitanen from Otago University have now surveyed 217 business owners about Tall Poppy Syndrome (TPS) and how it affects them in their decision […]