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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

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. experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people.

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How to monetise IOT – the bottom line

NZ Entrepreneur

IoT (The ‘Internet of Things’) has the potential to do some amazing things for New Zealand businesses, but at the very heart of it, people will want to know how it will help their organisation grow – or more to the point, bring in greater financial gains. And how have some businesses already achieved this?

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products.

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

ReadWriteStart

As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. 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. Report Bee.

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Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

crowdSPRING designers and writers have recently worked with some of the world’s best brands, including: Amazon, LG, TiVo, Starbucks, Philips, Forbes, ConAgra, Epic Records, Random House, Grolsch, Barilla, The Economist, Air New Zealand and many others. There are already many innovative crowdsourcing business models.