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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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AI – Risk of Extinction

Start Up Blog

Michael Tontchev, a former Microsoft software developer and current senior software lead at Meta has his at 20 per cent. Both Peter Thiel and Google co-founder Larry Page have snapped up land in New Zealand and built bunkers. Here are some of the worried AI researchers and their P(Doom) percentages.

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How AI is literally helping Kiwi businesses grow

NZ Entrepreneur

Myles Matheson, a Data & AI specialist at Microsoft New Zealand, says the first step in talking to customers about AI is to understand what it means to them. It allows you to be more competitive in a local and global economy by making accurate decisions much more quickly – it really does give you an edge.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

There are many analogies here for software development. He got people to do bootlegged mixtapes in new york, france and new zealand. The song spread globally. He was fine with the bootleg – it helped build and audience and helped him globalize. He created demand. Cham had other ideas.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.