Blog Archives

Another Xero competitor….

July 4, 2007

Business, IT, New business, Strategy

I’ve kind of set myself up as a commentator on the SaaS accounting space so I’ve got a duty to report another market competitor as posted by Lance. It’s not a comment on the viability or otherwise of Xero…

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78 cents US… Ouch!

July 3, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Manufacturing, My businesses, New Zealand

The dollar last night touched USD0.78. This is going to hurt exporters no end. Cactus is lucky in that we both import (raw materials either directly or indirectly), have a sizeable domestic market and create a niche product that…

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Bad time for investors to get jittery…

July 3, 2007

Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Society

Well another one bites the dust. As written about here and here, finance company Bridgecorp has been placed into receivership. Shocking timing seeing it happened the same week that Kiwisaver was launched. There are now 18000 predominately Ma and…

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A start to breaking down the old boys boardroom network….

July 1, 2007

Business, Governance, IT, My businesses, New business, New Zealand, Strategy

An article in the Herald this morning discusses a new website set up to act as a source for independent directors for board positions. For along time I’ve had a two pronged attitude about governance for NZ businesses. The…

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Emirates are really annoying me….

June 30, 2007

Business, Efficiency

And hopefully they blog scan regularly and will pick this up. Late last year we took an extended family holiday and flew Emirates to Cairo and return. We’re Skywards members and so should have gained enough air points for…

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Google deserve to run the world….

June 30, 2007

Business, Design, IT, Strategy

I stand before you all (well sit) dumbfounded. A new feature on Google maps, allows you to input start and finish locations and get directions, travel time and distance. It also allows the route to be customised to ones…

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Magic happens when technical abilities and creativity meet…

June 29, 2007

Business, Design, Economic Development, IT, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

I had a chat yesterday with Justin Heaney from Influx. Influx is a business that marries some cool technical skills in terms of VCast techno-wizardry with significant experience in the creative aspects of videography. An example of Influx’s work…

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Buy in? Nope… lock in

June 28, 2007

Branding, Business, Design, IT, Strategy

Rowan posted over here about how the iPhone will have an unremovable sim resulting in consumers being pretty much locked into Apple phone products. This and some of the other issues surrounding Apple’s latest product got me thinking. I…

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A cool tool….

June 27, 2007

Business, IT, New business, New Zealand

One of the businesses on display last night was Interclue who have developed a cool little extension for Mozilla Firefox that allows one to preview links prior to opening them. It’s a useful sort of extension and well worth…

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Interconnectedness 2.0

June 27, 2007

Blogging, Business, Economic Development, Governance, IT, New business, New Zealand, Society

I’ve been thinking about things following on from Brenda’s post the other day, where she spoke about the interconnectedness of the Wellington ICT and Blogging scene (included in which was myself which I take as a compliment, albeit a…

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