Tag: New Zealand
How did this guy’s bet with a co-worker turn into a successful six-figure business?
Destin Sparks had no interest in photography when he started out as a graphic designer and camera store salesperson. Surrounded by photography and camera...
Would you leave a comfortable finance career at GE to buy a beauty company?...
Ben Skeggs completed a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and upon finishing his Masters,...
After conquering Australia, this 23-year-old entrepreneur is spreading her innovative recruitment start-up’s wings to...
Founded by 23-year-old entrepreneur Gen George, OneShift is an online job-matching service that is out to take the hassle out of recruitment while chopping...
What Miley Can Teach You About Online Marketing? How about world domination? No twerking...
Allow me to show you the pathway to World Domination.
While I have no desire to rule the world or even the world of Fashion, I...
Forget lemonade, this guy turned life’s lemons into a million dollar business
The year is 1993; Brett Birkill has just finished Year 12 at a good school in Melbourne with a strong VCE result and his...
Growth beyond our shores: Are you are beating the odds by “e-Exporting”?
According to the OECD, Australian exports rose from 18 per cent of GDP to 21 per cent from 2004 to 2010, with a 23...
TARGET LOCKED. This Aussie start-up has the US recruitment market in its cross hairs.
Disruptive online recruitment startup RecruitLoop has set its sights on US expansion, establishing an office in San Francisco’s famous tech-hub alongside tech giants Twitter and Yammer.
The toughest assignment ever: teaching a dog to drive a car [VIDEO]
How do you tackle the incorrect perception that dogs that end up in animal shelters are 'second class' puppies? Naturally, you teach them how to drive a car.
Organisations continue to ignore the elephant of fraud in the room
“Fraud, bribery and corruption are not top of mind for senior management. Executives continue to ignore the problem despite knowledge that fraud is on the rise,” says Gary Gill, KPMG’s National Head of Forensic.
Sing glory for the angels are flying down to the Gold Coast! I mean...
At this 6th Australian National Conference on angel investment, we shall have representatives from Mumbai Angels, the largest angel investment group in the world, and New Zealand’s ICE Angels, the largest Angel Group in Australasia. These will join a number of other international speakers and guests from China, Singapore, the UK, Canada and the US.
Catching up with epic Aussie Startup Weekend winners
Recently, two Startup Weekend events have wrapped up in Australia. These events place would-be entrepreneurs in a 54-hour crunch to pitch, plan, and produce a new product or service. The format is global, with happenings going on all over the globe on an almost monthly basis.
Got a charity, or know one? You could get a free website – but...
Bloomtools, one of Australia’s most ambitious website design firms, is celebrating its eighth birthday in style by offering a free website to charities throughout Australia and Kiwi-land.The total package is quite worth having, valued at $5850! Word!
You can market research anything, including song lyrics [VIDEO]
When the organisers of Red Nose Day in New Zealand realised they didn't have a charity song for 2012, who did they call? Eventually,...
eWAY founder Matt Bullock on plans to ‘smash’ U.K. market, and foray into China,...
In an interview with Anthill’s Cynthia Karena, Bullock talks about how his resolve never to accept no for an answer landed him his first big client – St. George Bank. Entrepreneurship also means creating a win-win situation and scaling from small to medium, and probably to large, because of the huge potential that still exists, he adds.
Upstart Paycycle acquired by New Zealand’s Xero
Payroll entrepreneurs Stuart McLeod and John Freeman will no longer be needing to count their pennies. Their two-year-old bootstrapped startup, Paycycle, which provides an online payroll system, is being acquired for $1.5 million by New Zealand’s accounting software provider Xero. Of the amount, $500,000 will be paid in cash and the rest in shares of Xero, which is listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. The shares will fully vest over three years.
Business coach Andrew McCombe promises magic elixir on golfing green
As long as the sport has existed, golf and business have gone together like balls and sand-traps. Andrew McCombe is taking this natural relationship one step further, building a business around handing out networking tips, not just golfing wisdom, to business executives out on the green.
Innovation challenge launched by Telstra to equip Australia during natural disasters
Brilliant minds across the country are being summoned to stand up and make a difference.
Telstra is challenging all Australian researchers and innovators to come...
Meet the Aussie dot-coms in this year’s Webby Awards
Since 1996, the Webby Awards has recognised and celebrated the best of the internet. Last week, the awards celebrated their 15th year and five antipodean companies were among the nominees: four from Australia and one from New Zealand.
New Zealand and Australia are the fastest places in the world to start a...
According to “The Global Information Technology Report 2010-2011” compiled by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD The Business School of the World , New Zealand and Australia are the two most fastest places in the world to start a new business.
Allegro launches new $250 million private equity fund for Australia
Australian private equity firm Allegro Private Equity, last week, announced it had launched a new fund, Allegro Fund II, to raise more than $200 million to invest in the growing number of smaller mid-market private equity opportunities emerging in the post-GFC environment.
