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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies. Suse Reynolds, Angel Association New Zealand. It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Risk and reward. Compliance.

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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. Auckland-based startup Niesh, which has developed a student discount platform, is on a rapid growth trajectory and has had to decide if it should grow locally, or prioritise opportunities overseas.

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

Both Sides of the Table

We also built two very high-quality mobile apps that we were experimenting with in terms of building better customer acquisition toools. She created the company in New Zealand and without raising any institutional capital had grown a global business. Startup Lessons Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures'

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will focus on entrepreneurs in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. Report Bee. Then Balaganesh S.,

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Portfolio News: Q4 2021

Version One Ventures

And EnergyBank , a New Zealand company with an amazingly ambitious project developing deep ocean gravitational energy storage technology that can store excess renewable energy during periods of oversupply. . Outreach made its second acquisition, swooping up revenue intelligence startup Canopy. .

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. I wrote a few articles around the coronavirus that got viewed by over 60 million people, and that pushed me from really not a person very well known in the coronavirus world to appearing on the news and in different newspapers. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that.