I was having a read of Sandy Mamoli’s blog today and see she has just got a job at Fronde, the CEO of which is none other than Jim Donovan who is also a great NZ business blogger. Imagine…
Gareth Morgan has just launched a Kiwisaver fee calculator page so we can all do an assesment of the best provider for our particular situation. The Gareth Morgan Kiwisaver product looks compelling – any neutral parties out there care…
A very brave post here. In New Zealand are we selling ourselves short and becoming the low-cost innovation locale for other countries? Only to lose the innovations through acquisitions? And how much value do serial entrepreneurs really bring the…
Just heard that Xero have appointed Paul Gardener as CFO. Paul was formerly at Phitek and would seem to have the clout needed to scale a publicly listed company. Hamish Edwards, founder and former CFO, will now fill the…
I had a meeting today with some of the players at Connect New Zealand. Among the topics discussed was the need to increase the quality of governance of hi-tech businesses, particularly start-ups. Given my association with Economic development agencies,…
Sony yesterday filed a patent application for a phone with gaming functionality. Seems Sony is smarting that the Apple iphone is getting all the hype at the moment and came up with something of their own. I wonder if…
News that the Reserve Bank yesterday intervened in the currency market and sold a bunch of NZ dollars in order to bring down the “unjustifiably high” level of the Kiwi dollar. I’m not entirely sure that the move will…
Vincent Heeringa with another of his well thought out articles here. As I’ve commented in the IdeaLog blog, Israel would be a good model for NZ to look at. It’s a country similarly lacking in natural resources and is…
An excellent article in the June issue of Unlimited Magazine by Mike Hutcheson of Lighthouse Ventures. It’ll be online on the Unlimited website once the July issue comes out but the June issue is good and well worth the…