Deals
Done Deal: Idealog's collation of recent fundings secured, contracts inked and deals did, for the tl;dr crowd
Growth
Spectacular growth: Idealog’s insights from the last 10 years of the Deloitte Fast 50
New Zealand's fastest growing 50 companies were revealed last night at the third annual Deloitte Festival of Fast Growth. (Congratulations, Wellington craft brewery phenom, Garage Project!)
Events
The tech, the talk and the internet of things: Idealog at the launch of the Samsung Springboard $30k challenge
Samsung and the Icehouse are running a competition for Kiwi techies promising cash prizes and a hand up to some global opportunities. As is often the case with these things, they had a public launch of the whole affair, so Idealog went along to get the inside skinny, so you don’t have to.
International Expansion
Model behaviour: taking software to the States
A Kiwi developer has answered the casting call of model agencies around the world with a seamless cloud-based platform for this fast-paced industry.
Pickup lines for start-ups - how to really talk to your customers
Quit beating around the bush. Find out how to use customer interviews to nail down a feasible and scalable business model.
Startups
Start me up: The Idealog Guide to Incubators
Launching a business isn’t for the faint-hearted. It can be an exhausting, exciting, lonely, expensive, rewarding rollercoaster ride and not everyone has the required combination of skills, resources and networks to take their business to the next level. That’s where business-growth organisations like incubators, accelerator programmes and angel investors can add significant value.
Lightning Lab gets Auckland home
The Icehouse is calling on expressions of interest as it brings the Lightning Lab digital accelerator to Auckland.
Remodelled government programme selects new tech-focused incubators
Three new incubators described by the government as technology focused have been chosen to get access to repayable grants introduced as part of last year's Budget.
Governance laid bare: Institute of Directors, The Icehouse hit the road
The Institute of Directors and the Icehouse have teamed up for a workshop series designed to boost the standard of governance among Kiwi SMEs.
