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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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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. Depending on your data needs an upgrade to a product like Hyperfibre might be the right fit for your business. That’s an increase of 57 percent!

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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.

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11 tips for reducing costs in small business

NZ Entrepreneur

According to the latest MYOB SME Snapshot, a survey of over 500 local SME operators around New Zealand, most believe the economy will decline in the next year, putting further pressure on cashflow and margins. New Zealand based businesses can search Find An Advisor database for accountants and bookkeepers here.

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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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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. Occasionally us neighbourhood kids would help load and unload his products for pocket money. Shortly after my parents explained to me what had happened his son soon stopped playing with the rest of us.

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Going Virtual: Key tips for running an online event

NZ Entrepreneur

Live product demos. New Zealand company FAWC (Food And Wine Classic) even brought together a group of Hawke’s Bay winemakers to offer virtual wine tasting , with participants each being sent a hamper of wine samples in advance so they could join in. Polls that ask your audience for their ideas and feedback.