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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 […]

Hastings HIVE is a new large-scale co-working space, attracting a diverse range of customers from startups and large corporate branches to not-for-profit organisations. The Hastings HIVE is situated in the heart of Hastings’ central business district. The city serves the wider agricultural, horticultural, viticulture and food processing industries and was 2020 winner of NZ’s “most […]

Soda is searching for ambitious female entrepreneurs from around New Zealand to apply for its new seed grant competition – Rise Up – and be in to win $10,000. Sponsored by Callaghan Innovation, Wintec and Chow: Hill Architects, Rise Up is targeted at Kiwi female entrepreneurs – regardless of their age, where they live or […]

Covid-19 has turned the world on its head, but it’s also sparked accelerated change in health-tech – and attracted a large amount of capital globally[1]. That mixed with an aging population, the need for personalised care, privacy, digitalisation and value-based care, its no wonder healthcare has become one of the world’s largest and fastest growing […]

I was talking with a good friend of mine about how he would love to be able to go into business for himself. This is someone I have known for over 20 years. We went to school and university together and he is one of the smartest, hard-working and nicest guys I know. Since university […]

Global research by leadership development platform Abroad, reveals only 6% of entrepreneurial leaders feel mentally and emotionally well. New Zealand is pioneering a solution – backed by New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (NZGCP), Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand Trade Enterprise (NZTE), Angel Association New Zealand (AANZ) and investors. After 1,300 entrepreneurs took Abroad’s Awareness Assessment and […]

So you’ve decided to take the plunge and start a business. Well done you! Having mentally prepared yourself for what lies ahead by researching, reading about and talking with others about what it takes to start a business, you know that ‘success lies on the far side of failure’ and are prepared for the risks […]

For many would-be entrepreneurs, the idea of stepping away from a promising career to start a business can trigger something of an identity crisis that prevents many from trying. Are you prepared to risk years of hard work or study to try something that has no guarantee of success? In this interview, NZ Entrepreneur Editor […]

You’re working your butt off and doing great work. But are you leveraging media exposure to grow your business? In his book The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR, US marketing guru Al Ries (commonly acknowledged as one of the joint fathers of the concept of brand and market “positioning”) says, “Today’s major […]

What do you need to start a global footwear brand selling in over 40 countries around the world? In the case of one caring Auckland father – just a $500 overdraft and zero experience. When architect Chris Bennett lovingly hacked a pair of shoes for his 9 month old daughter back in 1991, little did […]