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Articles tagged ‘entrepreneurship’

• Back to the backbone

  2010-02-23 22:44:00 // Vincent Heeringa // The Idealog Blog
  A new report by IBM and the Univerity of Auckland into the state of Kiwi innovation reveals two surprising facts, and one dismally old one

• Barnesian logic

  2010-09-10 09:36:58 // Matt Cooney // Idealog #29: now
  Glen Barnes takes iPhones on tour

• Bigger, faster, more productive

  2010-03-11 16:20:53 // Peter Griffin // The Idealog Blog
  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.

• Born to fail

  2010-04-23 11:48:21 // Matt Cooney // Idealog #27: interact
  Eric Ries has watched promising companies burn, accidental ideas succeed and bad products turn good. Working out why has led him to his own methodology, the Lean Startup. But will Silicon Valley’s rules work in Enzed?

• Flash hurry

  2009-07-21 15:17:41 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa // Idealog TV
  James Madelin had an idea. Now it's a global business. Vincent Heeringa meets the man from Orbis.

• Hit the big time

  2010-08-23 15:18:01 // Cassie Doherty // The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
  Got the mid-winter blues, stuck in a rut, don't know where your life is going? Don't worry: this could be Your Big Year. A worldwide competition that's part of the UK's Global Entrepreneurship Week in November, Your Big Year's extremely lucky winner will embark on a 12-month, all-expenses-paid tour of the world, meeting celebrities and entrepreneurs, learning new skills and rolling up their sleeves for some volunteer work. Attend a conference in New York, take a limo ride in Vegas, learn photography in Africa, scuba dive in Australia, teach English in Ecuador, visit the Taj Mahal ... The aim is to encourage global citizenship and social responsibility through entrepreneurship. Whatever: it would sure beat surfing the net, watching telly and wondering how long till Labour Weekend.

• Josef Roberts

  2007-07-01 12:45:44 // Idealog TV
  Josef Roberts launched the AUT–Idealog Innovation Series

• Knowing me, knowing you

  2009-11-12 16:37:43 // Vincent Heeringa // Idealog #24: workshop
  A Kiwi business book that manages to thrill … and horrify.

• Lessons from the X-Media Lab

  2009-05-24 19:09:44 // Simon Young // The Idealog Blog
  X-Media Lab was all about companies getting one-to-one advice, but some advice is true for all entrepreneurs.

• Misery, Inc.

  2006-07-06 00:00:00 // Eleanor Black // Idealog #4: features
  Tanya Thompson’s transformation from ‘waif-like graffiti artist to mini-corporate’ has some predicting that it’s just a matter of time until she has her own fashion empire. Thompson—better known as Misery—is turning her cute-but-creepy creations into a global business. By Eleanor Black

• Nice ice

  2009-07-17 12:27:49 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa // Idealog TV
  The Icehouse Business Growth Centre is opening its doors to all tyre-kickers and wannabe billionaires at an Open Day on July 29. Idealog asks startup director Ken Erskine what it takes to become the next Sammy Morgan.

• Perfect your pitch

  2009-09-07 15:59:37 // Frances Chan // Idealog #23: interact
  Whatever your Big Idea is, pitch it to the Icehouse and you could win $15,000 worth of prizes, including three months in the Icehouse business incubator to develop your product and offer to investors.

• So you think you can dance?

  2009-10-13 10:57:04 // Tara Jahn-Werner // Idealog #23: features
  … but can you turn it into a business? Meet four New Zealand women who have turned their love of dance—and the skills they learned—into their own creative ventures. By Tara Jahn-Werner. Plus a rich and energetic tradition.

• The boys from the Bay

  2009-07-17 10:04:05 // Anya Kussler // Idealog #22: features
  A dry, stony bit of Hawke’s Bay, once a speedway and a quarry, now produces full-bodied red wines the equal of thousand-bucks-a-bottle Bordeaux. What’s the secret? Anya Kussler discovers what lurks in the once-unwanted soils of Gimblett Gravels. Plus beau Bordeaux and the top six.

• The odd couple

  2009-09-04 13:28:52 // Felicity Monk // Idealog #23: celsias
  He took Bendon from a knickerwear manufacturer to a global lingerie brand; she holed up in a Wellington yoga studio before deciding it was time to join the ‘real world’. Felicity Monk asks how Stefan Preston made the leap from Stella McCartney to Jyoti Morningstar, and how Morningstar moved from teaching yoga to launching an ambitious fashion eco-label.

• Tim Chang at X|Media|Lab

  2009-05-26 16:04:03 // Simon Young // Idealog TV
  Tim Chang, Principal of Norwest Venture Partners in Silicon Valley, sees New Zealand as a source of unique and refreshing ideas, born out of our distance from easy capital. Being a VC from Silicon Valley, you'd expect him to advise Kiwi businesses to chase American money, but you may be surprised at his answer.

• Todd's foundation

  2009-07-27 09:00:00 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa // Idealog TV
  Todd Wackrow spent just 3 months at the Icehouse and now look, he's really tall. Idealog asks why.

• Vishal Gondal at X|Media|Lab

  2009-05-26 15:11:10 // Simon Young // Idealog TV
  Vishal Gondal's business card says he is God-in-Chief at IndiaGames. A business owner since the age of 16, he’s got a lot to say about the Indian business philosophy of Jugaad. Kiwi businesses are more creative than Vishal expected, but do we need a healthy dose of Jugaad?

• Wiggs’ World

  2009-07-03 15:25:08 // Matt Cooney // Idealog #22: now
  It seems Lance Wiggs is always on a journey. Even home in Godzone, he’s not standing still: he has companies to mentor, connections to make and, on his blog, clueless corporates to skewer. So just what is Wiggs looking for?

• Winning on a pocket-sized budget

  2009-09-04 10:37:43 // Matt Cooney // The Idealog Blog
  How three backpackers from Dunedin beat Fonterra and Air New Zealand.

• Wired on Pop Culture

  2009-08-13 14:47:39 // Deirdre Robert // Idealog TV
  Walking through the supermarket with wires running through your cheek and a camera in your mouth may sound odd to most, but for AUT Colab resident Matt Kenyon, it's all in a day's work. Seeking to challenge the 'powers that be' through the appropriation of popular culture, Kenyon not only challenges it, he throws it on its head and turns it inside out.

• Would you buy an idea from this man?

  2010-06-17 12:52:15 // Mitchell Hall // Idealog #27: features
  The world’s biggest companies have a new strategy: outsourcing innovation. At the forefront of this new industry is the founder of New York-based Fahrenheit 212, Geoff Vuleta from Timaru.

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