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Yikes! The Ryans are at it again

By Ben Kepes

The Ryan brothers are something of a powerhouse of Kiwi entrepreneurship and innovation. Between them Doctors Shaun and Grant (underachievement obviously being a familial trait!) have set up and been involved in a raft of exciting companies – GlobalBrain, Eurekster, SLI Systems among them. They’re also involved in a bunch

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Eurekster back up but for how long?

By Ben Kepes

In an on-again off-again tale of woe, Eurekster‘s site is back up again. Last week it was reported that the site was down. It is now back up with a blog post saying that all the “problems” of the past few days are over. In January a related company gave

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Is Eurekster dead?

By Ben Kepes

I hope not – it’s be a sad day for Christchurch – Eurekster was the latest in the line of Ryan brother’s startups and it was garenring a reasonable degree of credibility. In March 2007 Tech Crunch reported that they’d got $5.5mil VC funding but as RWW reports, the site

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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