Equity crowdfunding platform Equitise is marking its acquisition of online business directory Rabble with a business development competition worth $20,000.

Entrepreneurs, investors and innovators of every description will be pressing the flesh and doing the deals at Dunedin’s annual 54-hour Startup Weekend, 27 to

Indy Griffiths has given himself a month to raise between $50,000 and $150,000 for his company Parent Interview’s crowdfund campaign.

By the time he was nine, Danushka Abeysuriya and his family had experienced nick-oftime escapes from not one, but two, war zones. Not surprisingly,

It seems you can’t throw a brick these days without hitting someone who’s got something they’re trying to crowdfund. Well put your wallet in

Grimy worms upcycling organic waste into fertiliser seems to be the way of the future – at least it won the hearts (and pockets)

SME business owners know they have to spend more time on the business and less in the business, but there is a strong functional

Businesses tend to be wary of advertising on blogs, especially ones that are targeted at a niche market. Julia Atkinson, the brains behind popular

Author Maya Angelou said people will forget what you say and what you do, but not how you made them feel. That’s key to

After months of chocolate milk madness in the North Island - security guards in dairy aisles, limits of two per person, knock-offs in cafes

It’s that time of year again, TEDxAuckland talkers are ready to inform and inspire.

Security guards in the dairy aisle, panic buying in the grocery section, counterfeits in schools, knock-offs in cafes, a burgeoning secondary market on Trade

They’re insidious and they’re everywhere - the trade mark trolls who are filing trade mark applications to own New Zealand exported brands. Johnathan Chen,

Start-ups are hard, and start-ups with physical products are even harder. Grow Wellington and Creative HQ aim to share some of their digital mojo

Breathe Easy has launched on Snowball Effect after raising funds through VC and angel investors.

UPDATE: SellShed have hit their funding target of $250,000 in just four weeks via equity crowdfunding platform PledgeMe.

Fed up with bashing his head fumbling at the back of his computer trying to stick his USB stick in the right way round,

We swear it’s not an April Fool’s joke, and promise it’s an event filled with swinging fun, fabulous drinks, and a nerve-wrecking pitching circle

Invivo will use broking firms for its $2m equity crowdfunding push

Raglan Coconut Yoghurt sends product to Nelson – via Christchurch, is taste-tested by Farro Fresh, and hand-stick their final label

The problem with innovators is they search for solutions before they identify the problem

New Zealand’s geographical isolation. That’s what makes it so hard for Kiwi innovators to generate funding for their exciting new projects, right?

SMEs are the lifeblood of the NZ economy. But rather than feeling valued by big private and public sector organisations, many SMEs reckon they

The Christchurch earthquakes changed the rules around heritage buildings. Dunedin had to decide to bowl or strengthen. Suzanne Middleton talked to some enlightened enthusiasts

China is New Zealand’s single largest export market, with the value of goods sold there exceeding $12 billion in 2014 – twice that of

It marks a shift away from a decade-long trend of the consumerisation of IT, when mass adoption of technologies like large screen smartphones and