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  • Punakaiki Fund Launches – Early Stage High Growth Opportunities for Mum and Dad Investors

    August 22, 2013

    Business
    Business, New Zealand, New Zealand Exchange, Punakaiki, TechStars, trademe, Venture capital, Wiggs
     

    Disclosure – Lance Wiggs, the main person behind both Lance Wiggs Capital Management and the Punakaiki Fund, is a personal friend. He’s cast his eye over some investment opportunities I’ve taken to him, and I’ve considered investing in some…

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  • The Xero Share Price – One Pundit’s Analysis

    March 27, 2013

    Business
    intuit, Microsoft, New Zealand, New Zealand Exchange, rod drury, trademe, United States, Xero
     

    In recent weeks the share price for listed cloud accounting vendor Xero has risen at an incredibly fast rate. The company, which has around 140000 paying customers globally and is yet to turn a profit, is now valued at…

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  • Fairfax Selling Remaining TradeMe Shares–My Two Cents

    December 16, 2012

    Business
    Apple, Australasia, Business, Fairfax, IBM, New Zealand, Sam Morgan, trademe
     

    Big news in Australasia this weekend was the planned sale of the remaining 51% that Fairfax still holds in TradeMe. Lance Wiggs has been doing the rounds of the media outlets with the view that the move is “absolutely…

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  • Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

    July 29, 2012

    Business
    Craig Winkler, Drury, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, MYOB, New Zealand, Public company, rod drury, sage, trademe, Xero
     

    Xero held its annual meeting last week and detailed its current performance. Xero annual meetings are always an interesting event, Xero has an incredibly supportive shareholder base, while most publicly listed company AGMs include a fair dose of critique…

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  • New Zealand – Celebrate the Organic Growth Businesses!

    December 17, 2011

    Business
    cactus climbing, cactus equipment, MinuteDock, New Zealand, polar bear farm, Ponoko, trademe, vend
     

    Over on his blog TradeMe alumnus Rowan Simpson has recently been giving some New Zealand startups the opportunity to tell their stories – it’s a great series that is well worth reading and it includes some posts by companies…

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  • Saasu Connects to TradeMe – Welcome to my Future

    October 7, 2010

    Business
    Application programming interface, SaaSu, Software as a Service, trademe, Xero
     

    Here in new Zealand, TradeMe constitutes an inordinate percentage of total internet time and traffic. Ebay may be huge in the US or elsewhere, but it’s not exaggerating to say that TradeMe created the inflection point of internet adoption…

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  • Let’s see if mobile is really the mass market way of the future

    June 16, 2008

    Business, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    mobile, trademe
     

    News that TradeMe, New Zealand’s answer to Ebay (and biggest single traffic generator in NZ) is going mobile. While others claim that the iPhone heralds a revolution, and that mobile web browsing will be the mass market game-changer, I’m…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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