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May 22, 2012
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An online idea that’s snapped up for squillions—it’s the modern
fairytale, but tech startups don’t always have a happy ending. Rowan
Simpson cut his teeth on Trade Me and Xero,
and as a tech investor he’s been pitched some great ideas as well as some real
dogs. While your path to success won’t necessarily closely mirror that of any other entrepreneur, there are plenty of key principles around teambuilding, raising cash, and learning from mistakes that any startup would do well to take note of. Simpson gives it to us straight, breaking down some of the mythology surrounding the whole starry-eyed business. If you can’t wait to read the whole thing, there is a shorter story published in this month’s Idealog, which is on sale now; otherwise you’ll want to read the first part of our extended online version, running in several installments over the next couple of weeks.
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It’s time to take your place among the game changers. Just two weeks remain to enter the 2011 TVNZ–NZ Marketing Awards, now in their 20th year of rewarding excellence in business success. Some categories have been tweaked and new ones added, so there’s bound to be one to suit you. Act fast because entries close on May 20.
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Are you looking to launch a green career, business or project? There are only a couple of spots left in The Green Dream Launch Pad Course, run by Happyzine editor Charlotte Squire, who’s spent the past decade working for and writing about some of the world’s greenest organisations. Run every Monday evening over the course of a month, it will show you how to attract a mentor, clarify your core strengths and passions, and craft a strategy to follow your own path. The online course starts on May 9 and costs $250.
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Two Media Design School students picked up Best Student Brief at the 2011 Bees Awards in San Francisco this week—the first international social media marketing awards for the communications industry. Ben Andrews (art director) and Craig Douglas (copywriter) won the accolade for their campaign Dreaming in a foreign language, created for client Mango Languages, which creates educational software. Another Media Design School team was also shortlisted as a finalist in the same category for their campaign Grow a little foreign man. The award carries a cash prize, a jar of honey (pictured) and a US internship for the students at the end of their course.
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When you think about it, dashboard space in most cars is pretty useless: after all, anything you place on it simply rolls off again quick smart. An MIT creation called AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent) is intended to help drivers by turning that unused area into a 3D display that provides route, traffic and destination info, as well as controlling everything from the radio to air-conditioning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKLAeq1m2TY
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Kids and parents stressed out by the Christchurch earthquake have a new resource to turn to. JoJo’s Place was developed by youth health experts, adapted from work done by Australia’s Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine. There are separate versions for under- and over-tens, packed with positive tips and exercises.
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NZ Music Month is officially upon us, and this
May, Dunedinites are invited to take a fresh look at the city’s musical
past through the music of Flying Nun with someone who helped write the
legend. Otago Access Radio station manager Lesley Paris has teamed up
with
the New Zealand Film Archive
to guide viewers through an afternoon
programme of classic homegrown music videos from the label where she
once worked (as well as drumming for 80s bands Look Blue Go Purple
and The Puddle). The Flying Nun Music Video Special will be held at 3pm
on May 14 in the auditorium at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Admission
is free.
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Your work could be displayed alongside that of Banksy in a street art exhibition timed to coincide with the Nelson Arts Festival and the Rugby World Cup in October. Organiser George Shaw and his wife Shannon have been collecting urban art for eight years, and their 23 Banksy limited-edition prints and originals make up the core of the Oi You! exhibition. Alongside these will be the best of Kiwi urban art including work by Auckland’s Cut Collective and the top works from the Oi You! Urban Art Competition. Submissions close on May 16.
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What could be more comforting than sinking into a feathersoft bed, or returning to the well-thumbed pages of a favourite novel? Combine the two and picture yourself snuggling inside the pages of a gigantic, fluffy book. Photographer Yusuke Suzuki’s “book bed” concept folds up during the day to save space, while transforming into an oversized book at night.
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