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From email support to tickets and online chat, James McCarthy’s first tech business Spidertracks had a number of tools in places for people to self-serve queries on their website. But with many of them based in different time zones around the world (and customers who were primarily an older generation), they actually preferred to talk […]

Got your tickets to the 2022 NZ SME&E Festival this 8th and 9th of November? Each week we’ll be sharing a podcast from some of the many great business speakers and mentors you can catch at the festival. Small business marketing tactics In this episode of the SME&E Festival Podcast, festival organiser Craig Murray speaks […]

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founders: Tim Pointer, Matt Rowe & SEBASTIAN EDWARDS Business: RescueMetrics Founded: August 2020 (but it wasn’t live until early 2021) HQ: Wellington Can you tell us a bit about your […]

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Deb Gilbertson – Founder Te Kaihau “Entrepreneurship is like parenting.” “Making your business happen is more like […]

Cyfe is a simple all-in-one business dashboard app that helps you easily monitor all your business data from one place. Social media, analytics, marketing, sales, support, infrastructure… if you’re driving yourself crazy trying to collect and report on all your key business performance metrics from a range of different apps, Cyfe enables you to monitor everything from one place, through visual […]

WHO: Hybrid Bikes Founder: Frank Witowski HQ: Nelson website: www.hybridbikes.co.nz What products, services, solutions or technology have you developed?  Hybrid Bikes Ltd is a carbon fibre e-bike innovation company based in Nelson. We design our own frame moulds to manufacture the carbon fibre frames and have designed the overall look of the bikes to stand […]

Tom Hilton has probably achieved almost everything one could hope to in the culinary world. In fact, he had done most of it by the age of 23. But after a journey that took him to the highest of highs, and lowest of lows, Hilton has gone back to his roots – literally and figuratively […]

Got your tickets to the 2022 NZ SME&E Festival this 8th and 9th of November? Each week we’ll be sharing a podcast from some of the many great business speakers and mentors you can catch at the festival. Social media marketing tactics In this episode of the SME&E Festival Podcast, festival organiser Craig Murray speaks […]