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GEN New Zealand releases manifesto to encourage greater entrepreneurship

NZ Entrepreneur

Watch the video interview now A network of more than 140 entrepreneurial businesses and organisations warns New Zealand is in danger of being left behind due to a lack of resources and insufficient policies to progress entrepreneurship. They collaborated to produce the manifesto, reflecting the views of network members.

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Go global or grow local? The Kiwi startup quandary

NZ Entrepreneur

A new study considers whether it is better to “go global” from day one, or to grow locally first. The study revealed that if Niesh first targets growth domestically in New Zealand, they will be better able to replicate their model in overseas markets and have appropriate growth strategies.

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Budding entrepreneurs receive a head start with startup education scholarships

NZ Entrepreneur

A new batch of enterprising New Zealanders are being given the opportunity to fast track their ventures from idea through to startup, thanks to an online education initiative backed by Callaghan Innovation and entrepreneur education platform Startup NZ. Adam Townsend, Bike Matrix.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. Suse Reynolds, Angel Association New Zealand. Check out New Zealand’s Angel networks on the Angel Association NZ website.

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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

As for so many others though, the news of his death by suicide last year still came as a shock and with a deep sense of sadness. The founder of one global Kiwi clothing company recounted to me a few years ago a high pressure situation that had him curled in a ball at the bottom of the shower, puking his guts out.

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AI – Risk of Extinction

Start Up Blog

Both Peter Thiel and Google co-founder Larry Page have snapped up land in New Zealand and built bunkers. No tech billionaire worth his salt doesn’t have a post-apocalyptic contingency plan and remote bunker. We are still largely addicted to fossil fuels, GDP, economic growth, and consumption.

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When Does a Private-to-Private Merger Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

The CEO, Phoebe Hayman, is an amazing entrepreneur who had built up this amazingly well-respected crafting company sold globally in high-end stores like Barneys, Harrods, Selfridges, Le Bon Marché in Paris, etc. She created the company in New Zealand and without raising any institutional capital had grown a global business.

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