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Eat eat riot
Running riot with the paleo diet: the Kiwi company harnessing the shift to high-quality, natural food
In 2013, Ryan Kamins took a brown paper bag full of home-made cereal to a local health store. Just a few years later and Kamins and the co-founder of Riot Foods, Art Green, have turned the natural cereal into a booming business that's projected to sell $2 million worth of products this year.
The future of work
Propelling performance reviews: How a Kiwi software company has blended holacracy with technology to empower the workforce
The future of performance reviews is here: an evidence-based digital badge system, which nurtures employee skills in a non-discriminatory and usable way. Auckland based software company Propellerhead seeks to challenge normative structures with innovative and alternative business models, notably its new digital badge system which will be introduced in early 2018 – a feature which aims to make traditional annual reviews irrelevant and remove workplace biases such as those towards gender, race, and religion.
Make it work
The Dunedin students who sold their way up to Shanghai
Eighteen years of iD Dunedin Fashion weeks, as well as a globally recognised bachelor’s degree in fashion - it appears there is more to Dunedin’s fashion scene than David Bain’s sweater collection. Students Lillian Cotter and Paige Jansen have made their mark there with a pop-up store that funded a research trip to Shanghai.
Let it snow
Breathing space: How a Kiwi skier designed a product to save lives in the snow
While snow is usually fun, it can sometimes be deadly. And Kiwi entrepreneur and avid skier Stuart Julian is helping to make the slopes a bit safer with a low-cost emergency breathing device aimed at people buried in avalanches or tree wells.
Make it pop
Allbirds flocks home, pops-up in Coco's Cantina
Our favourite woollen shoes, Allbirds, and one of our favourite Auckland eating establishments, Coco's Cantina, are coming together, giving locals an opportunity to get up close and personal with the brand at its first Auckland pop-up store. PLUS: Allbirds flies to Australia.
Intelligent objects
Multinational company Nest launches in New Zealand – so are we ready to plunge into the mystifying world of IoT?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is about to hit the New Zealand market in a big way, but the question is – do Kiwis really want a world of internet-embedded objects? We chat with Nest head of product marketing, Lionel Guicherd-Call about its venture into Aotearoa and what it predicts the uptake of IoT products will be like.
Foreign affairs
Silicon Valley royalty Scott Nolan gets set to take New Zealand's tech sector up a gear
New Edmund Hillary Fellow, high-flying Silicon Valley venture capitalist and ex-rocket maker Scott Nolan gives his take on the promise of the New Zealand startup scene – and offers some advice for Kiwi companies in search of funding.
