I have been fortunate to have sunk everything I’ve got into helping make some of the things I think need to happen in this come to life, from PlanHQ, Silicon Welly, Made From New Zealand, Challenge for Change, StartUp and The Naked Trainer, and tried to turn the ideas and the things I love into businesses, so I can spend more time helping and working with people who love making stuff happen. Some of these ventures have gone great and are firing, others just starting, others simmering and have...[Read full story]
Prime Minister John Key spoke with us just after the closing remarks of the Job Summit aimed at dealing with the issue of their being 80,000 Jobs at risk in New Zealand. John shared a couple of minutes on New Zealand’s opportunity as a small country, with small business and taking New Zealand to the world. Watch 2 minutes with John.[Read full story]
Pita Sharples Minister of Maori Affairs and long time community builder talks with us at the job summit about growing a more connected and appreciateive community. Once thing we’re starting to do pretty well as a StartUp Community across Silicon Welly and New Zealand is pull together and help each other grow, and this approach now needs to go across New Zealand’s Global Business Community, watch Pita’s thoughts below. [Read full story]
Had a great chat to Bill english who took some time with us at the Job Summit talking about making a more entrepreneurial government and the role of small businesses and entrepreneurs. He says how the current government has been setup in an environment where there’s plenty of money, so the issue is the government is risk adverse and doesn’t buy of kiwi businesses often because they’ve been afraid of losing their credibility and the solution is getting the Government to work with kiwi entrepre...[Read full story]
We’re off to the Prime Minister’s Job Summit tomorrow with the StartUp and Made From New Zealand film crew covering it from a entrepreneurial, innovation & small business perspective. There’s a few solutions/angles we’ll be trying to get discussed:[Read full story]
