New Zealand has been reaping benefits from the influx of Chinese tourists, Chinese students, Chinese investments in property and business. Kiwis are no doubt more comfortable hanging out in Silicon Valley than Shanghai, but mark my words, over the next 20 years, the landscape of New Zealand business will change significantly. There will be more Chinese owners, in a wider spread of businesses.
NZ tech exporters were showcased at "Business in the Cloud" expo in London last week. Idealog has the numbers.
Pitches were pitched, flesh was pressed and champagne quaffed at Thursday night’s Lightning Lab start-up pitch/investment event.
With an $80-million injection into Callaghan Innovation, the 2015 Budget is being promoted as a confidence boost against the R&D naysayers. But is that really the case?
Not too long ago the high-pitched robotic noises of a modem connecting served as our only gateway to an online world that was typified by webpages that slowly lagged into existence. Over time, the lag has reduced and ongoing roll out ultra-fast broadband (UFB) holds the promise of snuffing it out entirely.
Young New Zealand companies are gathering increasing interest from investors with the latest figures showing $55.9 million poured into the sector in 2014.
Kiwi-founded cloud-based inventory and sales management company TradeGecko.com has raised $8.5 million to expand its business. Could it serve as a model for Kiwi companies looking for expand globally?
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After nearly 20 years of working with CEOs and executives in New Zealand and around the globe, I’ve noticed some interesting attributes which make Kiwi leaders stand out from their international counterparts.
Accounting and business advisory firm RightWay is seeing rapid growth and believes it can help other small businesses do the same.
Madeleine Martin, general manager of Ossis, is a finalist in the Young Achiever section of the New Zealand Hi-Tech awards this year, thanks to her work producing custom designed 3D-printed titanium implants for patients with severely damaged bone and joints.
Xero has built its model around doing business globally from home, thanks to the power of cloud computing. For the 2014 Idealog guide to exporting, we asked managing director Victoria Crone for some thoughts on how other Kiwi businesses can do the same.
Is Wellington the new oasis for hi-tech companies in New Zealand
The problem with innovators is they search for solutions before they identify the problem
Agony Lance hands out his best Uncle Wiggs advice for early-stage companies. He has tips on hiring (your mates), growing (no big, hairy audacious goals), and avoiding burn-out (why not take a month off?)
Aditi Gorasia is 16 years old and part of a five-person team called Illuno. She is attending Venture Up, a business accelerator programme aimed at young people. She aspires to significantly change the life of at least one person and is thrilled over the prospect of walking past a stranger drinking the energy drink she and her venture partners hope to sell.
Our second largest export market, trade to the United States is expected to be worth over $6 billion in 2014. Those export dollars are largely earned on the back of food and beverage products, especially meat, cheese and seafood, says NZTE’s New York-based trade commissioner Peta Conn.
New research shows many innovative Kiwi SMEs aren’t future global giants – nor do they want to be. And that should temper how we do business with them.
It is big, it is tough, it is complex. America is not for the faint hearted. Rodd & Gunn hopes to carve a bigger share of the US men’s fashion label market after its success in Australasia. Idealog gets managing director Mike Beagley to share insights on what it takes to survive in the Big Apple, and in America.
NZ is now on the radar of Silicon Valley investors. Two visiting hotshots from the tech mecca, Sam Altman and Scott Nolan, say they will be looking to invest in companies here.
3-D printing, wearable tech, and robots trying to do cool things are just some of the more endearing developments that have dotted 2014. We showcase the ones Idealog like.
In early October, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman tweeted that he would be coming to New Zealand with his business partner Scott Nolan and “we’d like to talk to some founders – anyone in Auckland willing to host us?”
What is it about the ‘cleaning up dirt’ business that is giving three of New Zealand’s most savvy internet entrepreneurs such a great buzz?
Access to capital can make or break a start-up or small business’ aspirations to fly. Yet New Zealand, with its limited capital market access, presents challenges even for the most seasoned business person.
The office phones are dying a thousand deaths, heading for the graveyards big time. Even call centres with its hundreds of round-the-clock workers can run completely without the traditional brick-and-mortar phone sets sitting on desks. And one little Kiwi company is carving quite a nice slice of the telephony market, vowing the bigs boys who aren't usually its target market.
Finally a coder who not only has the intelligence for coding but has empathy and integrity. That’s the way of the future and Dev Academy – a venture of social enterprise Enspiral – has proven that with a bit of thought the IT industry can solve some of its pain of massive skills gap in the industry.
As a country, we’ve done pretty well out of this cloud computing thing. With business-to-business startups like Xero and Vend leading the way, and others growing below the radar, Kiwis have blasted through the old geographical barriers and reached global audiences to the tune of around half a billion export dollars annually.
Angel investment in New Zealand is just scraping back to post-GFC levels. So why exactly are we calling this a robust and vibrant market?
New Zealand’s technology sector is no longer the exotic new kid in Silicon Valley, in New York or London. Far from being apologetic about being from a postcard country at the edge of the world, there is new boldness from a rising crop of technology companies who have vision from day-one to conquer the globe.
How employing fashion design students helped Fuji Xerox NZ successfully launch its new printer.