Experience

Opinion

Three surprising lessons I learnt on the journey from idea to app

Rivers Rainey is a Vend alumni who worked in recruitment. He has since branched out on his own and create a start-up called Chatif.ai, which builds chatbots for companies' career pages. Here, he details what the journey was like making an idea a reality in the form of an app, as well as the experience he had teaching himself to code.

GLAM rock

It's back: Te Papa's Mahuki, part III

By Ben Mack

Te Papa’s famed Mahuki accelerator is coming back for a third year. Get ready for another wave of digital businesses with innovative ideas for the culture and heritage sector.

GLAM rock

Te Papa's Mahuki in 2017: Building on success, striving for a brighter future

By Ben Mack

The second edition of Te Papa’s Mahuki incubator has come to an end – and like last year, there were some pretty impressive businesses doing pretty impressive things.

Sage advice

25 things with Xero's Craig Walker, part five

By Craig Walker

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.

Deep wisdom

25 things with Xero's Craig Walker, part four

By Craig Walker

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.

Sage advice

25 things with Xero's Craig Walker, part two

By Craig Walker

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.

Deep wisdom

25 things with Xero's Craig Walker, part one

By Craig Walker

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.

Forget VR

Is the age of mixed reality upon us? Accenture thinks so

By Ben Mack

Forget virtual reality or augmented reality. Mixed reality - which combines smart technology with the physical world - is the future, says Accenture.

New normal

Post-Millennials, the experience economy boom will keep on truckin'

By Elly Strang

The trend of spending money on experiences instead of things may have started with Millennials, but it's poised to continue for many generations to come.