As Lightning Lab Manufacturing, a three-month, hardware-focused boot-camp for start-ups, approaches the mid-point in its programme, we take a look at the diverse cohort
Turns out we’re not just competitive when it comes to getting an oval-shaped ball over a white line on a grassy field.
The regional category winners from the Deloitte Fast 50 – a national index of New Zealand’s fastest growing companies – were announced last night
As the industry standard for the world’s most famous DJs, and with a two million-strong user-base, Kiwi DJ-tech company Serato should, by rights, be
The English love a good queue. I managed to experience a good number of them over the past week in a very busy London,
Henri Eliot talks to Rob Campbell, former trade unionist now chair of NZX-listed Summerset Group, Tourism Holdings and P2P lender Harmoney, about economic bubbles
How the crazy cartoons of a Pulitzer prize-winning American engineer became the crazy inventions of a Kiwi software developer, who became the subject of
Idealog hits NZ’s biggest investment event of the year (so you don’t have to).
As I’ve aged, I’ve grown to appreciate the concept of ‘cognitive dissonance’ – the ability to hold two ideas in your mind which are
From the New Zealand siblings who brought us the Robo Fish (one of the biggest-selling toys of all time), comes what could be this
When Bex Twemlow, the now-managing-director at Hail, was called back to her old High School in 2013 to help them solve a yearbook-related publishing
A new ride-sharing app embraces digital currency, Marxism and even lower prices.
We went along to the New Zealand Food Awards gala dinner on Thursday feeling a combination of nervous and excited. Mostly excited. The lady
Successful companies lodge international patents. We Kiwis invent stuff and hide it under our raincoats
In an ironic twist of fate, Idealog columnist and NZTE executive David Downs flew in and out of the Chilean capital Santiago just hours
It’s a sad fact, but you can’t argue with the science: beautiful people are more successful than the rest of us.
A clever alarm to prevent kids dying in hot cars has won AUT startup weekend
Coming up with a great idea and translating it into a marketable product is one thing. But with everyone screaming for ‘fresh and new’
Nick Gerritsen says megatrends like climate change present opportunities for start ups to transform economies like New Zealand’s.
In a just-released 30-minute video, former Saatchis boss Mike Hutcheson examines how the Kiwi attitude both produces innovation and mitigates against its commercialisation.
Marcus Radich gave a talk at Microsoft’s big annual technology conference, Ignite, last week entitled ‘If your idea is great, your wireframes should suck’.
In the 2011 movie Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the general manager of the cash-strapped Oakland Athletics baseball team. Using a heap of
No one likes to clean up after Fido goes to the bathroom. That’s precisely why a Tauranga PhD student feels her business can fill
Pull out your best hemp tuxedo and uncork that organic champagne, the 2015 NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards are coming around again.
Describing an interviewee’s achievements as ‘too many to mention’ may not be the most elegant way to begin an Idealog story, but when your
Why is it that advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi has new Zealanders in 27 of its offices worldwide? In the final part of a