Xero, the NZ-founded global small business platform, launched its Xero for Good initiative in New Zealand with the free Know Your Numbers programme to boost small business financial literacy.
A luminaire business, a rugby club, a waste management company and a construction company are winners of Xero's Beautiful Business fund.
Small business platform Xero is introducing their plan to the government that will see a $7.8 billion opportunity for Aotearoa.
<p>Craig Hudson is the managing director for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands of Xero, which makes beautiful accounting software. He shares how he gets through the day, how he organises his time and how he handles the madness of business.</p>
<p>The name ezyVet isn’t a well-known one in the business community, and yet the Auckland-based company is set on world domination – and it might just get there. It’s using cloud-based software to disrupt the slow-moving vet industry, and now has customers in six countries, has tripled its head count to nearly 100 staff and has opened offices further abroad in Dallas, Texas and London.</p>
<p>Everyone loves a list (even if it's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F53rGneGY60">about the worst lists</a>) and, <a href="https://mostinnovative.com.au/the-process/">after more than 1000 nominations,</a> a number of New Zealand companies have managed to impress our neighbours and earn places and special awards in the Australian Financial Review's Most Innovative Companies. </p>
<p>Anna Curzon is Xero's chief partner officer. Here's what keeps her up at night. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.xero.com/nz/">Xero</a> is on the move. Or, at least its Auckland offices are. But the company won’t be leaving the City of Sails – in fact, it’ll be moving into a new building that’s not only bigger, but might just be one of the most innovative offices in Aotearoa. Oh, and it’ll also host its own co-working space.</p>
<p>A heritage-listed building in downtown Wellington has been reconstructed for the digital age – fitting when you consider that the company that has just made it its new HQ is none other than <a href="https://www.xero.com/nz/">Xero</a>.</p>
<p>Xero's longtime CTO Craig Walker knows things, wants things, predicts things, worries about things and improves things. In this fifth and final installment, here are five things that worry him about technology.</p>
<p>Xero's longtime CTO Craig Walker knows things, wants things, predicts things, worries about things and improves things. In this fourth installment, here are five things he predicts for 2037.</p>
<p>Xero's longtime CTO Craig Walker knows things, wants things, predicts things, worries about things and improves things. In this third installment, here are five things he wishes were done to support entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>Xero's longtime CTO Craig Walker knows things, wants things, predicts things, worries about things and improves things. In this second installment, here are five things he wishes New Zealand would do right now.</p>
<p>Xero's longtime CTO Craig Walker knows things, wants things, predicts things, worries about things and improves things. In this first installment, here are five things he wishes he knew before he started his career in tech. </p>
<p>The 2017 Deloitte Fast 50 regional category winners have been announced. The big takeaway: some companies grow faster than others.</p>
<p>As part of Idealog's Technology Month, we've picked the brains of some of the movers and shakers in the industry to find out their favourite tech-related things, their biggest fears for the future and what other companies and individuals inspire their work. Here's Xero small business director Nicole Buisson.</p>
<p>As part of Idealog's Technology Month, we've picked the brains of some of the movers and shakers in the industry to find out their favourite tech-related things, their biggest fears for the future and what other companies and individuals inspire their work. Here's Xero managing director Anna Curzon.</p>
<p><a href="http://xero.com">Xero</a>'s CEO shares what he's learned about building a global company - and how tech can be used to promote equality.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.xero.com/nz/?lp=xero_brand&gclid=CJrDq6SD_dICFQ5-vQodh2AAKQ&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CKnZgaWD_dICFVAllgodKeACCw">Xero</a> has reached the one million subscriber mark. But CEO Rod Drury says he’s more proud of what his company’s been doing to promote gender equality and encourage more women to go into STEM careers.</p>
<p>For International Women's Day and amid a flurry of reports showing a clear bias against women in New Zealand workplaces, digital editor Ben Mack chats with <a href="https://www.xero.com/nz/">Xero</a> managing director Anna Curzon.</p>
<p>Xero’s global director of media, Patrick <span data-scayt-lang="en_US" data-scayt-word="MacFie">MacFie</span>, describes content as “a ravenous beast” more than capable of chewing you up and spitting you out.</p>
<p>Today, Xero unveiled 'Hey Xero', a chatbot to provide small businesses with a new way to access the Xero ecosystem.</p>
<p>Vend’s chief product officer Vaughan Rowsell is in a happy place. The cloud-based software company he founded in 2010 has a much-envied corporate culture; is partnering with the likes of Apple; and is expanding into North America and the UK. We chatted with Rowsell about the future of technology in retail.</p>
<p>?<a href="https://www.xero.com/nz/">Xero</a><span style="line-height: 1.6"> needs little introduction. But we'll give it one anyway. It's New Zealand's undisputed tech darling, a major force in the small (and increasingly large) business world and, if things keep going the way they are with the country's booming tech sector, hopefully a taste of things to come. Ben </span>Fahy<span style="line-height: 1.6">, Idealog’s publisher and editorial director, sat down with managing director Anna Curzon in the Lorde room of its Auckland office. </span></p> <p></p> <p></p>
Xero has unveiled a new App Marketplace, providing a one-stop-shop for cloud apps that connect with its accounting software.
Xero and Microsoft have launched a new tool that allows businesses to access their own small business data and generate business insights.
70% of small business owners don’t want to grow their business, but 83% want to improve efficiency, according to Signals, Xero's new ongoing New Zealand small business report.
We talk to the Xero managing director about her decision to run for Auckland mayor, after only 20 months in the job. Then we ask her boss, Rod Drury, what he thinks about the whole thing.
Forbes named Xero the world's most innovative growth company in 2014 and its numerous spin-offs are also taking flight.
For the second year running Xero has been ranked the world's best on the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Growth Companies list.