10,000 Businesses on madefromnewzealand.com
Over the last 9 months we’ve been pumping along promoting and connecting New Zealand Business and have just in the last week hit 10,000 Businesses on madefromnewzealand.com. We have dished out over 50,000 outbound links/leads to member websites, with quality visitors coming from the US, Australia, UK, China and more. I chatted bright and early [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pita Sharples on building communities
Pita Sharples Minister of Maori Affairs and long time community builder talks with us at the job summit about growing a more connected and appreciateive community. Once thing we’re starting to do pretty well as a StartUp Community across Silicon Welly and New Zealand is pull together and help each other grow, and this approach [...]
Job Summit - Representing Entrepreneurs, innovation and Small Business
UPDATE:
The Job Summit was a really good day of having a whole lot of business, government and community all working on ideas, and syncing up with people who want to make it happen.
John Key - watch video of John key
Bill English - watch video of Bill English
Pita Sharples - watch video of Pita Sharples
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We’re off [...]
Kiwi Wildfire gets $450k from Facebook Fund - Hear her story
Just a few weeks ago kiwi entrepreneur currently based in the valley was awarded $450k from the FB Fund for her business Wildfire Interactive. The FB Fund organised by Facebook and some leading VC’s pick what they believe to be some of the smartest upcoming apps, with the right experienced crews behind them. [...]
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 [...]
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