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Ten Things Budding Software Entrepreneurs Should Know

The first in a series of articles aimed at helping budding software entrepreneurs avoid some of the pitfalls that are out there waiting for you! As the saying goes “those who fail ...

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Startup Accelerator Lightning Lab Auckland Announces Top Mentors and Partners

New Zealand’s leading digital startup accelerator, Lightning Lab, officially kicked off its Auckland programme yesterday announcing a selection of NZ’s leading entrepreneurs and ...

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PowerbyProxi: Powering Up the Business

Name: Fady Mishriki & Greg CrossBusiness: PowerbyProxiYear Founded: 2007Industry: ICTLocation: Auckland and InternationalIcehouse Programme: Startup/Incubation, 2007-2009FTEs ...

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AJ Park: I’ve Invented Something. Should I Try and Patent It?

We are often asked about the value of patent protection.

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The Icehouse Scaling Its Offering for Kiwi Startups

Today, business growth hub and startup incubator, The Icehouse, announced a scaling of its support for Kiwi startups that are looking to take their business to the world stage. ...

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The Icehouse Startups Make an Impact

250 startups, $425million in revenue and 880 jobs! These are the highlights of the impact statistics released by Auckland based business growth hub and startup incubator, The ...

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Cyckit Producing Cycle Storage Products for Elite Road Cyclists

Cyckit, a New Zealand based company specialising in designing and producing integrated cycle storage products, has reinvented the saddle bag and claims to have finally “put to bed ...

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Crowdfunding 101

Crowdfunding is a new method of raising funds for a project, and it’s gaining huge momentum worldwide. Crowdfunding operates by many people (the crowd) tipping in small amounts of ...

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Three Basic Marketing Tactics to Launch Your Startup or Small Business (Without Big Budgets)

So you’ve started a business! You’ve done all your homework, validated the market, built a team, sussed out your business model and developed the product/service. Now you’re ready ...

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Marketing MacGyver Style – Getting Results With Nothing but Paperclips, Ductape and the Right Attitude

I love doing marketing on tiny budgets! And no, I’m not being sarcastic. In the last 5 years I’ve done marketing for three different organisations, have been involved in two ...

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