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Working from home has become a reality that businesses and their staff have had to quickly adjust to, and many organisations are now questioning the need to ever return to the paradigm of mass centralised offices. But Richard Liew says it may not be the holy grail of productivity, happiness and work-life balance for everyone. […]

Building a team of trusted advisors can be immensely helpful in the early stages of your entrepreneurial venture. Here’s how to build a startup advisory board. Knowledge is having the right answer, intelligence is the ability to ask the right questions. Every day we ask people to answer the questions that we simply don’t have […]

You don’t want others swiping your valuable ideas and running with them. But without the right confidentiality agreements in place, that’s exactly what could happen. Non-disclosure agreements, or NDA’s, are vital when you’re disclosing new ideas or information to people outside your business. They’re also important to use when you’re receiving confidential information from others, […]

The fourth annual Internet Speed Survey has highlighted an urgent need for improved connectivity across Northland – a demand that has been further exposed by the knock-on effects of COVID-19. The survey is a collaboration between Northland’s Digital Enablement Group (DEG), and the region’s four councils, Northland Regional Council, the Far North, Kaipara, and Whangarei […]

New online Kiwi marketplace ‘Needed’ aims to provide an ‘income vaccine’ for the growing number of Kiwis looking for a further sense of financial security. Around 5% of Kiwis currently work as self-employed contractors or freelancers* – with that number expected to rise as people seek out multiple sources of income in a pandemic-stricken economy. […]

Over the first weekend of May, Startup Weekend went remote. For the first time ever, New Zealand experienced a nation-wide Startup Weekend event. Laura Kerrison explains. ‘Startup Weekend Aotearoa COVID-19’, with 18 startup ideas worked on for the good of our whānau, our wellbeing and Aotearoa as our country… all in the span of 54 […]

Startmate is launching in New Zealand, marking the Australian accelerator’s first international expansion, with investment in local startups to be bolstered by a global network that will include a crop of new mentors from leading NZ companies. Bringing in expertise from Kiwi leaders and founders from Xero, Raygun, EducationPerfect, Wish, Vend and 90Seconds, as well […]

This article is the second of a three-part series by Baldwins Intellectual Property that focuses on the importance of intellectual property for startup companies. Intellectual property rights are an indispensable consideration in ensuring your startup has the best possibility to succeed in the future. In this article, we discuss what startups should consider in the context […]

Despite the economic pressures of the COVID-19 crisis, Kiwi plant-based food manufacturer, Little Island has confirmed plans to acquire a plant-based yoghurt business to widen its product offering. It has launched a public capital raise of up to NZ$2m to support this acquisition and drive further growth, via online investment platform Snowball Effect.  Co-founded in […]

Offcut, the Christchurch-based brand famous for turning fabric scraps into caps and accessories, has been acquired in a private purchase. Since it was founded in 2015 by Adrien Taylor and Matt Purcell, Offcut has worked with some of New Zealand’s most recognisable brands, including Swanndri, to produce limited edition caps from fabric offcuts destined for […]

Auckland-based AML360 is helping Kiwi businesses meet their anti-money laundering compliance regulations with an end-to-end RegTech solution that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.  Since 2014, AML360 has evolved from a RegTech (regulatory technology) solution performing business risk profiling into a full-blown end-to-end suite that provides digital solutions across the entire AML (anti-money laundering) framework. Co-founders […]

Community members from all over Aotearoa are coming together to tackle the new challenges created by Covid-19 in the first-of-its-kind Techstars Global Online Startup Weekend series. Next weekend, participants from all over Aotearoa will come together online to form teams, solve problems, and build startups, all with the goal of tackling the challenges created by […]