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Not all of us are built to be founders but we can all find a way to back ambitious, world-changing businesses; whether it’s buying their products, using their services, promoting them, encouraging and supporting them or investing in them. Certainly, backing and building startups will do a whole lot more for our future and our […]

Dissatisfaction with the status quo, and a vision for some better object, outcome or circumstance that does not yet exist, is the starting point of all creation. And as an entrepreneur in a world where purpose led work is more important to people than ever, that vision is key to enabling you to attract and […]

Adapt or collapse. This was the difficult choice faced by numerous small businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. And while many small New Zealand businesses shut up shop, others were able to use the pandemic as an opportunity to try something new. The Museum of Transport and Technology’s (MOTAT) new exhibition Silver Linings explores just that; […]

As the saying goes, you need to spend money to make money. And if you’re a high-growth startup looking to get off the ground or expand, it’s likely you’ll need an injection of capital to do that. Byron van Vugt from NZ Growth Capital Partners explains. For investors, capital raises provide an opportunity to invest […]

Kiwi IT firm Mobile Mentor has won Microsoft’s 2021 Global Partner of the Year Award for Modern Endpoint Management. The company was selected among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft’s technology, in particular for its work with the Nashville-based caregiving organisation, […]

Fresh from their recent $1.4M equity crowd funding raise, Christchurch entrepreneurs James Mount and Grace Glass talked to Richard Liew about an entrepreneurial journey that started for them six years ago. James and Grace’s story is a classic case study in Kiwi entrepreneurship. While their capital raise with crowd funding platform Snowball Effect was oversubscribed […]

If you need support to grow your business or business idea, applications are open now for Soda’s next CO.STARTERS programme which starts on 2 August 2021. When Alice Barrett couldn’t find environmentally friendly activewear that was made in New Zealand, the answer seemed simple. She would create it herself. Armed with an idea and a […]

More than a third of New Zealand SME owners and decision-makers have experienced a mental health condition since starting or taking over their current business and a free online mindfulness programme is on offer to support their mental health. Research from the 2021 MYOB Business Monitor revealed that 36% of SME owners and managers have […]