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• A new angle on angels

  2010-03-17 12:49:00 // Vincent Heeringa // Idealog #26: interact
  Bill Payne, one of America’s leading angel investors, is in New Zealand for three months to share his 25 years’ experience with angels and entrepreneurs—and you can meet him for free.

• Across the great divide

  2007-09-21 04:51:38 // Gabrielle Beran // Idealog #11: now
  DeNada fashion is out of the incubator and into the fire

• Action that

  2008-01-03 06:00:16 // Matt Cooney // Idealog #13: now
  Our online startups are getting ambitious. Bravo

• Adrian Holovaty: a mashup case study, Everyblock.com

  2009-02-19 15:04:57 // Ben Kepes // The Idealog Blog
  Adrian is a journalist (ahhh—that’s a good thing—a dying breed) and a developer of web apps for washingtonpost.com, lawrence.com and LJWorld.com. If that wasn’t enough he also co-created Django, the open-source development framework.

• Amie's baby

  2008-07-18 12:15:32 // Amanda Cropp // Idealog #16: features
  Amie Nilsson’s Merino Kids business is growing faster than her own brood. She tells Amanda Cropp about ambition, innovation, sleepless nights and the cut-throat world of design for the under-fives

• Annalee Newitz: your business plan is science fiction, and that’s a good thing

  2009-02-20 11:45:25 // Ben Kepes // The Idealog Blog
  Annalee is editor of science/fiction blog i09.com and a former policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She asks what today’s science fiction telling us about where our technology will go tomorrow?

• Big in Japan

  2008-10-03 13:17:21 // Karryn Cartelle // Idealog #17: features
  Terrie Lloyd couldn’t speak a word of Japanese when he arrived in Tokyo, so he started a translation company. Now he’s at the head of a multimillion-dollar publishing and technology empire. Karryn Cartelle meets the Kiwis running Japan Inc

• 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?

• Brew town

  2008-11-14 12:05:23 // Lauren Bartlett // Idealog #18: features
  A chance meeting in the depths of the Pureora forest between a Dutch traveller and a Fijian brewer could make a decent a-man-walked-into-a-bar joke. Instead, the meeting led to a business exporting a uniquely New Zealand beer. Lauren Bartlett reports

• Cheap inspiration

  2008-03-20 08:52:28 // Paula Skilling // Idealog #14: workshop
  For a lesson in creativity, pay a visit to Phnom Penh

• Cleaning up

  2008-11-26 09:00:12 // Gena Tuffery // Idealog #18: now
  The big world of small person’s products

• D.I.Y.

  2008-06-13 11:53:50 // Gena Tuffery & Kris Herbert // Idealog #15: features
  The line between creativity and commerce is more blurred than any time since Coca-Cola discovered Santa Claus. Idealog profiles two endeavours in the fastest-blurring industry of all: music.

• Design association

  2008-03-17 08:53:17 // Kris Herbert // Idealog #14: now
  Want to label yourself? Dunedin’s Ooid can help

• 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.

• Gene genius

  2008-08-20 08:35:51 // Catherine Smith // Idealog #16: now
  Biomatters’ CEO found his own replacement: a big-thinking Texan from Telecom

• Good weed

  2008-07-09 11:18:19 // Amanda Cropp // Idealog #16: now
  A Canterbury marketer goes back to the farm to brew cordial from the weedy nuisance of elderflowers

• Meet an angel, get advice and maybe some money—for free

  2010-03-18 11:10:00 // Vincent Heeringa // The Idealog Blog
  Idealog presents a rare opportunity to meet angel investors and mentors—for free. But hurry, we're only taking 80 people.

• Meet the man who gave Red Bull wings

  2006-12-14 01:00:00 // Matt Cooney // Idealog #7: features
  Josef Roberts turned Red Bull, a little-known energy drink with legal problems, into a pop phenomenon in New Zealand and Australia—and made millions in the process. He talks exclusively to Idealog about guerilla marketing, taking on the big boys, life after the Big Deal, and the down-home Kiwi company he plans to build into a global superbrand. By Matt Cooney

• Microsoft gives Facebook US$240 million -- for 1.6 percent

  2007-10-25 14:48:32 // Matt Cooney // The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
  The deal values Facebook at US$15 billion. Makes me wonder just who would profit from another dot-com debacle?

• Nat Torkington: better, stronger, faster failures

  2009-02-19 10:36:32 // Ben Kepes // The Idealog Blog
  Home-town hero Nat Torkington, ex (and sometimes current) alumni of O’Reilly media is always a good choice for an entertaining show, he didn’t disappoint this time!

• 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.

• O for awesome

  2008-11-12 14:30:41 // Gena Tuffery // Idealog #18: now
  Trevf prints a history lesson on your chest

• 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.

• Power trip

  2009-03-05 09:41:51 // Peter Griffin // Idealog #20: features
  It’s a decade since Kiwis could pick their power provider—and yet reading your power bill is an exercise in frustration. What if you could buy your power from anybody—the cheapest, the greenest, or the most socially involved—and never receive a ‘bill shock’ again? That’s the promise of a new Kiwi startup—and it will even let you launch your own power company. Peter Griffin meets the bright sparks behind Powershop

• Repeat offender

  2006-12-13 01:00:00 // Matt Cooney // Idealog #7: now
  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?

• Second life

  2008-04-04 14:11:28 // Lauren Bartlett // Idealog #14: features
  Forget cast-offs, hand-me-downs and the fashions of yesteryear, ‘re-designers’ are turning forgotten gems into something new and desirable. Lauren Bartlett meets the Kiwis creating born-again-ware

• Secret Sauce for Open Tables

  2009-05-23 13:46:42 // Jason Kemp // The Idealog Blog
  Very few of the ideas at the Entrepreneurial Summit seemed that interesting at all to me. Perhaps its the different tech focused world that I live in but I did think asking the "usual suspects" for surprises was a tough thing to do. Open Table is a start-up that raised US$70m earlier this week by fulfilling the simple task of making restaurant bookings easy to do. I couldn't help thinking that NZ could do plenty of projects like this.

• Shooting stars

  2008-11-28 11:52:55 // Lauren Bartlett // Idealog #18: now
  For the person who has everything: golf balls from space

• The Cuban connection

  2009-06-26 13:50:15 // Lauren Bartlett // Idealog #21: features
  Some people will go a long way for a decent coffee. The quest has taken Geoff Marsland and Tim Rose around the world, mingling with Cuban spies, tagged as terrorists and welcomed by Havana’s Communist elite. Lauren Bartlett meets the proprietors of Wellington’s Havana Coffee Works

• The kids are alright

  2008-12-04 12:41:46 // Simon Young // Idealog #19: now
  Everybody wins with a successful Gen-Y social enterprise

• The latest from The X-Media Lab

  2009-05-23 16:56:52 // Simon Young // The Idealog Blog
  17 bold entrepreneurial projects are now years closer to success than a day ago, thanks to what has happened here today.

• The Pokómen

  2008-03-28 15:14:43 // Peter Griffin // Idealog #14: features
  If you can draw your idea, Wellington startup Ponoko can probably make it—and find buyers for it too. Idealog meets the New Zealanders at the forefront of the handmade revolution

• The road to Rubber Monkey

  2008-08-08 11:57:01 // Peter Griffin // Idealog #16: features
  Nigel Stanford tried his hand at music and design but made his fortune on the web, creating social sites and running Trade Me when Sam Morgan left town. Now he’s moving into movies with his own studio. Peter Griffin tracks his strange journey. Plus Trade Me’s fab four and trading places

• 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.

• Who's a clever bastard, then?

  2008-11-20 08:28:01 // Gena Tuffery // Idealog #18: now
  A round-up of our artistic types

• 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.

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