Give a Little, Making Giving Normal
There was only one thing that was going to bring me back early from my time at the whanaus peace haven at Ohope Beach, and that is the launch party for this evening at The Jimmy, a great event, wonderful people, and an awesome cause.
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Building a Global Country…
It’s been a good first week with the doors open to New Zealand’s Global Business Community Made From New Zealand, and we’ve got a range of kiwi entrepreneurs and their businesses from known names like Line7 and Dame Susan Devoy to the Paihia Taxi Tours who proudly run their fleet of vans entirely on used [...]
Kiwi launchs worlds first usable JetPack
A tad different from hundreds of people cycling to work and saving 5000 litres of petrol there’s something about the worlds first practical Jet Pack just launched at Airventure by the Christchurch founded and NZ VC backed Martin Aircraft company thats very rich in the Kiwi DNA.
There’s a lot to be said about a personal [...]
Going Around the World in 2 Weeks and Saving 5000 Litres of Petrol
James, Me and our web experience business have for the last few months been working really close with UK based NZ social entrepreneur Tom Stokell designing, developing and operating a cycling community that gets more people cycling by getting organisations to compete with each other, and with 33,930 miles biked in just the last 2 [...]
Instinct takes mobile Wikipedia to Singapore
Dan Milward and the crew of 4 over at Instinct Entertainment have just secured a deal in Singapore to bring Wikipedia to mobile users. Dan is also keen to get the service rolled out here in NZ with either Telecom or Vodafone. Be good to see some local revenue into Instinct to help fund their [...]
Rowan Simpson Joins Xero
It’s just been announced publicly on the NZX that former Trademe Shareholder and manager Rowan Simpson Joins Xero to head up product Strategy. After selling his web business flathunt.co.nz to Trademe back in 2000, Rowan has played lead roles at Trademe in both the software development and the increasingly product direction and management, so he’s [...]
PlanHQ Launches at DEMO
It’s been a brilliant last month for PlanHQ over here in the US, and after presenting at Office 2.0 on getting things done a few weeks ago, working the floor at Techcrunch40, we just this last week completed the build up with our official global launch at DEMO. If you want to Make it Happen [...]
Skymatter Mudbox aquired by AutoDesk
Skymatter the Wellington based makers of 3D digital sculpting software Mudbox have just been aquired by NASDAQ listed Autodesk for an undisclosed sum. Read the article on Stuff. It’s taken the 3 managing founders Andrew Camenisch, Dave Cardwell and Tibor Madjar just 2 years to build the Skymatter/Mudbox business, a similar time to what it [...]
FX and CityLink give CreativeHQ 1 gigabit Internet
The local technology and creative incubator CreativeHQ have just received a boost as Internet providers FX Networks and Citylink offer them a free 1 gigabit connection to the net. Citylink have been key in raising the bar for high speed net in Wellington over the past 5 years or so along with FX networks who [...]
Xero IPO Successful
The NZX has just announced the successful IPO of Xero with $15 million raised from the New Zealand public, and trading will commence as planned on Tuesday June 5.
After a year since starting Xero, this is a major Milestone for the business, Rod, Hamish, the whole team and the 1600+ members of the New Zealand [...]
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