Jenny Morel hints of Silicon Welly
Monday’s NZ Herald featured an insert called ‘the Business’ and just inside was a snippet on Jenny Morel one of New Zealand’s leading VC’s. Jenny founded No. 8 Ventures in 1999 after a career in investment banking including her initial technology investment business Morel & Co.
In the column on “5 things to know about Jenny [...]
Hire Things Launched (Previously LetUseIt)
HireThings has a clear focus on becoming the hiring and renting marketplace for NZ and several off shore markets. People and businesses can list any goods, places, and services they have for hire on the site, and customers can easily find and place booking requests online. It is free to list items on the site, [...]
Webstock Mini - March
Last year the people from web standards New Zealand organised a killer event called Webstock. Webstock pulled in some pretty cool international talent like Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users and local web success Rowan Simpson Development Manager (now ex-shareholder) of Trademe to name a couple. To keep up the momentum in a web space [...]
Xero to be the next SAP
An article in the Infotech section of the Dominion Post yesterday morning talks briefly about the idea of Online Accounting Software Provider Xero being the next SAP, the full article here.
Why Xero could be the next SAP
The first generation of business software has on the whole been skewed towards looking after the big guys; enterprise [...]
New National Internet Backbone - FX Networks
They’re pretty unknown to most, but Silicon Welly’s FXNetworks have been very busy over the last year, laying and lighting up a brand new High Speed Fibre Optic Internet Backbone from Wellington to Auckland. So we now have a new major alternative for Internet Bandwidth up the country.
FXNetworks Re-launches with a new face
Who are these [...]
Morning Swimming in Welly
I love starting the day well, and this week me and a few friends have taken to morning swims down at our central city beach Oriental Bay. Nat and me lived up at Ohope Beach for a year or so building the business and working the lifestyle in parallel until last may, and getting up [...]

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