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Hello all – we’re still here! Been awhile since the last update so there’s lots to pack in.

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A Kiwi dog treats company is looking for $75,000 on Pledge Me to grow its pet treats company. Yes, surprise-your-dog pressies. Still, given the

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The road from start-up to successful exit is a dream shared by many Kiwi entrepreneurs, but one filled with challenges.

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What will someone pay for your great idea? The one no one else has thought of, keeps you awake at night, and gives you

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The rebrand of Spark, the biggest name change in recent times, also included Gen-i, one of the largest and most successful ICT services providers

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A Kiwi-designed wheelchair built from a Segway could radically change physical therapy. Will it catch on around the world?

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Well, I am on the way home now, in the AirNZ lounge of SFO airport, and true to form, there are a few people

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Born out of frustration trying to start her own business, Mum’s Garage was created by Natalie Robinson to be an early-stage networking platform for

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One Tauranga doctor is on a crusade to help elderly people live with more freedom, and without the hassle of outdated medical bracelets and

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Final day of study and I was late to class – my own fault, I didn’t leave enough time to rifle through the approximately

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Former IdealogLive Pitch Circus winner, Curate, has just won the ‘established businesses’ category of the Equitise business development competition. Now the plucky start-up is

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Practical genius or fashion monstrosity? This ultra-functional travel garment has hit a nerve with crowdfunding patrons regardless.

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Book snobs, cover your ears. Booktrack, the platform that provides intelligent synced audio content to e-books has just secured another NZ$7.5M in funding. Resistance

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Mojo Coffee is using the last beans from pre-cyclone Vanuatu to help rebuild the country’s devastated coffee industry.

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?David Downs finds out first hand why the #1 mistake Kiwi exporters make is thinking everyone is just like us

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Why those who tell the stories rule the world. And those who rely on dull presentations don’t.

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Being away from home for 6 weeks leaves no room for excuses about exercise. Dammit.

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Instead of bussing tables and tediously tending to customers, there are some enterprising youths who are turning to a new avenue of employment: YouTube.

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Is it ever too late to follow your passion and be a wild success? No way.

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Writer, director, actor, producer and all-round film-fanatic Ant Timpson loves all kinds of movies. However it must be said, he likes the dodgy ones

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Young Enterprise Scheme teams prepare to battle it out for cash and business scholarships

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Xerox and Kodak have become by-words for failure. But it's all so easy to pick the losers in hindsight. Knowing when you are about

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This essay by Paul Graham shows how you need to think in startups – literally. Nothing happens in a startup until you do something.

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An Aucklander goes to Portland to learn business tips from, among others, an 11-year-old.

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At Stanford, we do cover serious topics (‘calculating weighted average cost of capital using long-run treasury bond rates’ anyone?), but the stuff that is

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Everyone has their preferences for how they like their peanut butter – heated discussions have been had, since time immemorial over whether it ought

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