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
Young Enterprise Scheme teams prepare to battle it out for cash and business scholarships
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
This essay by Paul Graham shows how you need to think in startups – literally. Nothing happens in a startup until you do something.
An Aucklander goes to Portland to learn business tips from, among others, an 11-year-old.
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
Everyone has their preferences for how they like their peanut butter – heated discussions have been had, since time immemorial over whether it ought
The Lucky Taco have been furnishing the Auckland public with the taste of Mexican street food for two years and are now taking their
A Chinese/New Zealand joint-venture claims it can solve the world’s obesity epidemic with its natural sugar alternative. Is this “Kiwi dragon” ready to soar,
People seemed to like it when I shared some things I learned a couple of posts ago, so here is another interesting factoid:
A Wanaka-based online diamond business has figured out a clever way to compete with some of the world’s largest jewellery retailers and has sold
Currency and derivatives dealer signals continuing NZ currency volatility for the second half of the year
Has BI finally cracked its big data challenges? Is 2015 the year AI finally goes big? We’ve got the tools and there’s no doubt
So you know how sometimes everything goes wrong? And then just when you think you can’t take any more bad news, other things that
End of week three, and that means it’s the mid-programme break. 3 days without lots of reading to do!
Anyone who has ever spent 60 rush-hour minutes stuck in traffic can attest: commuting sucks. But is there a better way? Andrew Kissling sure
Rather late in the piece, New Zealand advertisers are starting to recognise the value of the modern family
It’s precisely 12:49 pm, and as usual Christchurch’s Black Betty café is abuzz with activity thanks to the deluge of students and professionals streaming
I habitually lie to myself, that’s one thing I learned this week at Stanford. Before you judge me, know that you too also lie
Forgot your wallet? Never fear, for Zomato is here! The online restaurant search and discovery platform will soon let you pay for your meal
It’s been going almost 80 years and is still New Zealand’s second best-loved brand. So how did we all become Tip Top fans?
Twelve years ago, Ian Wright decided he wanted to build electric cars, so he started a company. That company was Tesla. You might have
A lot of less-than-reliable information gets passed around when it comes to natural medicines. Wellington-based pharmaceutical research company Honeylab is a happy exception
Kiwi David Downs hob-nobs with some high-power international business people – and eats far more than he should
It’s the “world’s first music-infused gin”, coming to you courtesy of Rogue Society Gin. Part-PR stunt and part-absolute madness, even the makers themselves can’t
New tech aims to turn consumers green intentions into actual profits for retailers who are doing sustainability right.

