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Ryan Sanders is the founder of Haka Tours which specialises in small group adventure, snow and mountain bike tours of New Zealand and Haka Lodges, upmarket hostels in five locations across New Zealand. He also recently founded Haka Educational Tours, which targets international schools and universities on cultural, sporting and educational tours of New Zealand […]

The lifestyle of an entrepreneur is a tempting one. It’s a great life, but it’s a life full of misconceptions and myths. I took the step of moving away from a safe but dull, full-time job and into the world of entrepreneurship. I created my own leadership development business, and I started travelling around the […]

New Zealand is a pioneer in equity crowdfunding – one of the very first countries to create a legal framework for retail investors to participate in offers of shares in private companies. So when the first equity crowdfunding offer launched in New Zealand in August 2014, many watched with interest as this new way to […]

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 […]