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Durafeed gives dinner feeding freedom to dog owners
For many dog owners, a night or two away without their four-legged friend in tow requires a bit of pre planning, someone’s got to feed them their evening tucker. But what if it didn’t have to be an actual human that gave the dog a bone? It’s definitely food for thought, and as explained to […]
Tasting the Manawatu with City Slicker Honey
Tim Coulson was just eleven years old when he was given his first bee hive. Seven years later he has 50 hives located throughout the Manawatu, and his business, City Slicker Honey, is buzzing. Erin Harrison spoke to the young entrepreneur. There’s no doubt Tim has already achieved an incredible amount at a young age, […]
EC8 saves time and waste for construction industry
Christopher Staal’s startup EC8 has developed technology to supply pre-cut plasterboard to building sites, reducing the overall build time of a residential house by two days and decreasing waste by up to 30 per cent. With 34,000 houses built annually in New Zealand and more than one million built each year in the United States, […]
Why Smart Machine is building robotic vineyard vehicles
As the wine industry booms and humans are needed for winery management roles, a trio of inventors have created robotic vehicles to do labour-intensive tasks in vineyards – and the vehicles are made entirely in New Zealand. Mike Botur explains. Smart Machine currently has just one product, and just four copies of it, but […]
Mahitahi Colab
Who: Mahitahi Colab What: Learning & Mentoring, Coworking HQ: Nelson INTRODUCTION The Mahitahi Colab’s purpose is to build a more connected business and innovation community, by creating stronger links between clever business, investors, researchers, business development providers, Government and the education sector. We do this by offering flexible co working space, hosting business and community […]
Founder Interview: Mitchell Pham, CodeHQ
One of NZ’s longest serving private technology companies is soon to celebrate 30 years in business – a milestone in any industry let alone in such a competitive and rapidly developing industry. We caught up with CodeHQ (previously Augen Software) cofounder Mitchell Pham and asked him about how his experiences as a child refugee from […]
Remote working and work-life balance a big pull for Kiwi workers
New research reveals New Zealand employees are working longer hours and feeling more pressure to be ‘always on’. Given the option to work remotely, more than half would switch employers, and nearly three quarters would do the same for a better work-life balance. The report by Adobe, titled The Future of Time, surveyed 5,500 enterprise […]
AgLoco on a mission to take the diesel out of food
For the last one hundred years diesel tractors have faithfully met the needs of heavy agricultural work, helping to grow food to feed the world. We depend on diesel tractors to survive, but now science is telling us that to avoid the worst effects of climate change, we urgently need to stop burning fossil fuel. […]