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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 […]

The Saboteur You are the voice inside my head, the saboteur in waiting, unseen, unsaid.Ever lurking in the dark, watching, listening for the faintest of sparks. For when I dream you are always there,to sow seeds of doubt, and those of fear. Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, you proclaim the voice of reason, smiling.But […]

Shane Bradley has a reputation as one of New Zealand’s hardest working young entrepreneurs and is the founder and CEO of GrabOne, New Zealand’s leading group buying site. Growing up in Rotorua, Shane left school after sixth form and started his first business two years later. Prior to starting GrabOne in July 2010, he founded […]

Tony Falkenstein is an Auckland based entrepreneur, philanthropist and Chief Executive at Just Water International Limited, a business he founded in 1989 and listed on the NZX in 2005. Other business interests include Bartercard NZ, Buro Seating and Boyd Visuals. In 2003 he instigated the establishment of the Onehunga High School Business School and in […]

Ever thought about starting your own business? Maybe you’ve already started a business? Maybe you’re an experienced business builder or investor with several businesses under your belt and the scars to prove it? Where ever you might be in your entrepreneurial journey, NZ Entrepreneur is for creative, ambitious, hard working Kiwi entrepreneurs like you! No […]