10,000 Businesses on madefromnewzealand.com

By Tim Norton | Jul 29, 2009

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 [...]

The Friday Show episode # 6

By Tim Norton | Mar 30, 2009

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

By Tim Norton | Mar 24, 2009

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 [...]

20 Metre Fern on Oriental Parade Beach

By Tim Norton | Mar 20, 2009

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 [...]

Paul Reynolds at the Job Summit

By Tim Norton | Mar 13, 2009

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

By Tim Norton | Mar 11, 2009

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 [...]

2 million kilometres cycled and the PM’s national cycleway

By Tim Norton | Mar 5, 2009

February was the month of the bikewise business battle in New Zealand, and I’m pleased to say that 14,641 kiwis have cycled some 2,045,320 kilometres. this has been a fantastic month for us to launch our New Zealand Cycling Community here in new Zealand after getting our first 2 towns in the UK - the [...]

John key at Job Summit

By Tim Norton | Mar 3, 2009

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 [...]

Bill English at Job Summit and the Government taking risks and buying local

By Tim Norton | Mar 3, 2009

I said last week we were off to help represent entrepreneurship and small business at the job summit and I’m pleased to say we did just that and met with many people keen for Government to work with kiwi entrepreneurs, like Bill English. Bill talks about making government more entrepreneurial and shares his thoughts on [...]

Pita Sharples on building communities

By Tim Norton | Mar 3, 2009

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 [...]

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