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10,000 Businesses on madefromnewzealand.com

Tim Norton — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:15:10 +0000

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 yesterday morning with Corin Dan on TVNZ’s NZIBusiness Show about systematically growing New Zealand’s Exports, and our journey so far.

Tim Norton, entrepreneur and co-founder of Made From New Zealand talks to Corin Dann on the NZI Business Show.

John key at Job Summit

Tim Norton — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:16:25 +0000

John Key and Tim Norton

Got to have a catchup with John key Prime Minister of New Zealand at last weeks Job Summit aimed at dealing with the issue of there being 80,000 Jobs at risk in New Zealand. John shared a couple of minutes on New Zealand’s opportunity as a small country, with small business and taking New Zealand to the world. Watch 2 minutes with John.

“we’re a country of 4.3 million people run by small businesses, we want to take on 6 and a half billion people in the world and win”

Pita Sharples on building communities

Tim Norton — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:31:32 +0000

Pita Sharples and Tim Norton

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 now needs to go across New Zealand’s Global Business Community, watch Pita’s thoughts below.

Pita Sharples talks to kiwi global entrepreneur Tim Norton co-founder of Made From New Zealand and StartUp