Xero raises $23 million from strategic investors
Just weeks after publishing the hockey stick that shows online accounting software Xero hitting the 6000 customer mark to close out the financial year, today Xero CEO announced the successful raise of $23.2 million in capital that sees the addition of key industry player and ex MYOB founder Craig Winkler as an investor injecting [...]
Richard Taylor Weta Founder World Class New Zealander 2009
Richard Taylor creative director and founder of Weta Workshop and Weta Digital wins the supreme World Class New Zealand award this week.
The most important characteristics to create success in order
Passion
Enthusiasm
Tenacity
Talent
John Key Awesome Speech at World Class New Zealand Awards
Prime Minister John Key had everyone cracking up as he pulled out an inspirational 15 minutes Wednesday night amidst a fantastic evening last night at the World Class New Zealand Awards, hosted by Stephen Tindalls Kea and NZTE with some amazing New Zealanders being recognised for their contribution to New Zealand and helping take New [...]
The Friday Show episode # 6
Here’s the latest friday show episode 6 filmed rocking around Auckland. Sorry a tad behind on posting, but this is the best episode so far, some cool entrepreneurs and businesses like Amplifier, ransfer Car, Huffer, 42 Below, and Loop, and found us a cherry picker on the side of the road to help us [...]
50 metre Fern on Oriental Bay Beach and hitting one news by 6pm
A massive Saturday effort from heaps of people in the community and the Made From New Zealand crew got us to 1 x 50 mere fern, with a submersable pump jetting 125 lires of seawater into the leaves by 5pm, when I shot up in a chopper with one of our film magicians to [...]
Join Us - Wellington to dig 50 Metre Fern on Oriental Parade
Along with a big bunch of others in Wellington, we’re digging/sculpting a 50 metre fern on Oriental Parade Beach starting this evening (Friday) at 6pm, then we’ll get up and go hard through Saturday. We hadn’t planned this, everything and heaps of people are just all coming together, so will be goodtimes, come down, bring [...]
20 Metre Fern on Oriental Parade Beach
This past Monday night a couple of us dug a 20 metre fern on Oriental Parade beach while chatting about a new name for Made From New Zealand. The rest of the crew joined us on Sunny Tuesday morning to work it up into this and have a magic start to the day…
When good people [...]
Our New Auckland base
In between running all the businesses and filming everything in New Zealand Business, we’ve also been sorting ourselves out a very special new pad as our Auckland base for Made From New Zealand and other businesses, a newly refurbished 1 story building of our own just off upper queen street… We’ve actually already got quite [...]
Paul Reynolds at the Job Summit
Chatted to Telecom New Zealand CEO Paul Reynolds for a stint at the Job Summit about how small business is where much of the innovation is and is shaping the future of all businesses, attracting more entrepreneurs to NZ, and making a success out of being a country on the periphery… Cheers for sitting down [...]
Paula Bennett Minister of Social Development at the Job Summit
Chatted with Paula Bennett Minister of Social Development and Employment, Disability Issues, and Youth Affairs at the Job Summit about all sorts including businesses playing more of a role in society and younger entrepreneurs often tending to be more interested in what they’re doing for society, checkout Paula’s thoughts.
Also, the only MP I could give [...]
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