KiwiFoo 08
More than a tad late on this one, but KiwiFoo08 was the weekend before last and was again like last year brilliant. Some really interesting chats with people, and some new relationships I can’t summarise all here right now, but instead I thought I’d just let people speak for themselves, checkout their websites, their blogs [...]
Webstock 08
I’m at New Zealand’s big web conference Webstock to end this week, its definitely a good kick off to the year for the web space in NZ, with Webstock following on from Kiwi Foocamp last week. Big credit to the team behind webstock which is rally Mike Brown of Signify and Natasha Hall of Trademe. [...]
World Peace Summit March 29
Wellington is hosting a world peace summit on climate change on March 29 focusing on climate change and what each of us can do as people to make a difference. As There are some cool people coming along and I look forward to it. As Gandhi said well “Be the change you want to see”.
Thanks [...]
A US VC’s perspective on NZ web companies
I chat pretty regularly to a lot of VC’s in the US, and on my last trip in September and October I had a startupTV camera capturing a few discussions I had with some VC’s. While I get what I want for PlanHQ out of these discussions, with these meets I went out of my [...]
Can you fill my funnel? then contact me
One thing that I notice a shortage of in the network is people who are good at web marketing, specifically people who can take an existing site generating revenue and get it visible and consistently drive traffic through search engines and referrals.
Using PlanHQ as an example:
We get a certain number of visitors
A percentage who sign-up [...]
Celsias launch at DEMO - 6 minutes on stage
Wellington based Climate Change project website and blog Celsias pulled off their 6 minutes on stage at DEMO 08, here’s Nick Lewis making it happen on stage. Great to see NZ’s second launch at consecutive DEMO’s.

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