NEW ZEALAND'S ONLINE MAGAZINE FOR ENTREPRENEURS, STARTUPS AND SME BUSINESS BUILDERS
Articles and insights about starting up businesses and social enterprises.
There are many business writers/mentors and coaches who encourage business owners to try and stay in a “cash flow crisis” space. Why? Surely this is one of the most stressful, lonely and desperate places to be? I agree – but…
When I first saw the lone Wanaka willow tree, three thoughts popped into my mind, almost simultaneously. The first was, “Wow, how beautiful.” The second was, “How is this thing still alive?” And the third was, “How sad!” And when…
To get on top and stay on top it’s not enough to look after and develop just one area of strength. We need four primary areas of strength to drive effective business leadership. If any one of these areas of strength…
Here’s Richard Liew’s version of the entrepreneur mindset. What is it that keeps you going? What is your underlying “Why?” and what does your personal entrepreneur seesaw look like? It may well be different to this and that’s fine, but…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
What’s your picture of what the average entrepreneur is like? Here’s 12 facts from a report titled The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur. It’s based on a survey done by the Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, of 549 company founders across a variety of industries. The average and median age…
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