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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. Moskovitz is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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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. Dr Jenny Douché, Callaghan Innovation. Adam Townsend, Bike Matrix.

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Knowledge Base: Angel funding insights with Bridget Unsworth, Angel Association New Zealand

NZ Entrepreneur

Watch now: (20 mins) In this edition of Knowledge Base, Richard Liew talks with Bridget Unsworth, Executive Director of Angel Association New Zealand (AANZ). How can New Zealand founders find and engage with potential angel investors? What is the difference between angel investment and venture capital?

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How the Internet of Things is impacting New Zealand businesses

NZ Entrepreneur

Power generation in New Zealand is a major industry that is certainly seeing the benefits of implementing IoT systems, starting from the basics of machinery being able to monitor itself for issues to enable proactive maintenance, to more complex capabilities – such as being able to make its own decisions.

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How much bandwidth does your business need?

NZ Entrepreneur

A good example of increased data consumption is that the average New Zealand home and business used 515 gigabytes (GB) of broadband data in October 2021 compared to 329 GB in 2019. Business fibre The pinnacle of internet delivery methods, fibre-optic cables offer the fastest speeds available in New Zealand.

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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. As an entrepreneur and educator first, publisher second, I followed Jake’s story with interest. It also made me angry.

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Top tips to protect your small business against a cyber attack

NZ Entrepreneur

The 2022 MYOB Technology Snapshot – a survey of more than 500 New Zealand SMEs – showed 43% of SMEs increased their use of digital business tools (in the 12 months prior to the survey) due to COVID-19 restrictions, while 46% of SMEs hoped to improve the digitisation of their business further over the course of the year.