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Risk comes with the territory in early stage companies. All questions asked by potential investors when considering an opportunity can be simplified along the lines of the old risk/reward paradigm: how much reward is possible, and what are the risks? Company founders often view the risks section as an obligation rather than an opportunity – […]

For many entrepreneurs selling is the stuff of nightmares. But it may be because you’ve bought into some of the common myths about what selling is. Effective selling is not about building a relationship, not about identifying a need, not about doing a certain number of calls, not about closing techniques and it’s not about being […]

Terry Shubkin, Chief Excitement Officer of Young Enterprise Trust, talks about the outlook for young entrepreneurs, and opportunities to get involved in 2016… One of the best things about working with Young Enterprise is the hope for the future you gain by spending time with young entrepreneurial kiwis. Often in the media we see the […]

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 […]