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Idealog—in the ideas business

  • Raising Webstock

    2011-01-19 23:13:08 // // Idealog #31: features | 4 comments
    There’s nothing quite like Webstock. Perhaps that’s because it runs counter to everything the experts said a Kiwi web conference should be. By Haydn Green
  • Rod Drury talks broadband and entrepreneurship

    2010-10-05 11:31:03 // // The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
  • Bigger, faster, more productive

    2010-03-11 16:20:53 // // The Idealog Blog | 2 comments
    An entrepreneurial dream team is set to finally give Kiwis the internet as it should be—fast and uncapped. Oh, and lend a hand to our Australian cobbers too.
  • Forecast: Cloudy

    2009-05-08 16:00:09 // // Idealog #21: features | 1 comment
    Who would have thought that infrastructure was the most interesting part of the Internet? Welcome to cloud computing, where big pipes and big iron create a second—no, third—generation of Internet entrepreneurs. Matt Cooney asks: could New Zealand become the Land of the Long Net Cloud? Plus cloud concepts and Me 2.0
  • The numbers are up

    2007-02-27 16:41:44 // // Idealog #8: features
    That ‘Big Idea’ can take half a lifetime to arrive, so it deserves a bit of fanfare when it does. Hamish Edwards and Rod Drury planned to launch Xero, a breakthrough software accounting system, five years ago. Then they waited. Now, reports Gena Tuffery, their number is up
  • Repeat offender

    2006-12-13 01:00:00 // // Idealog #7: now | 5 comments
    Rod Drury just doesn’t know when to stop. This year he sold his email management company, AfterMail, to US-based Quest Software for US$45 million, and in November he won the Entrepreneur of the Year title at the 2006 Hi-Tech Awards. Time to relax? No way—Drury is investing in a string of local IT startups and blogging up a storm too. Just what is it that he wants to prove?