Peter Kerr • Feb 23, 2015 •
Scoop’s in the middle of an attempt to change its ownership and business structure from individual shareholders to community (to be designed). It has just launched a PledgeMe crowd funding bid. The metaphor that applies is not unlike the tragedy … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Jun 18, 2014 •
The dark arts of branding received an illumination when Brant Cooper spoke to a packed house at Wellington’s Lightning Lab. The ‘Lean Entrepreneur’ co-author from San Diego popped in on invitation on his way to Australia, and talked about how … Continue reading → … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Mar 26, 2014 •
In my post at The Daily Blog today — Facing the future – no Bridges too far — I take a look at the Royal Society of New Zealand’s latest information paper about the need to move New Zealand to a green economy. There’s a yawning gulf between the rational world view embodied in the […] … Read More
Peter Kerr • Mar 18, 2014 •
Any business that gets itself into a financial position to employ others is, by default, doing OK. If that operation starts with a completely new product, to survive long enough to (at least) thrive, is even better. So it is … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Oct 29, 2013 •
No one ever said that creating and perfecting a resetting, toxin free pest trap was going to be easy. The guys at Goodnature would be the first to agree, but, 12,000 or so sold traps later, the Wellington company that … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Oct 22, 2013 •
Here’s an example of a simple idea being good, and a good idea being simple. It’s also pretty green in the scheme of these things as well as being a “why didn’t I think of that.” ‘Flexibition’ is the brainchild … Continue reading → … Read More
Guest Author • Oct 10, 2013 •
Below is the text of a lecture given by Rick Boven, a director of Stakeholder Strategies and former director of think tank the New Zealand Institute. by Rick Boven Today I’m going to offer some thinking about how the way we think about our environment and the economy affects the outcomes we will experience in the future. I think … Read More
Peter Kerr • Sep 24, 2013 •
A thumbs up to Lightning Lab and Wellington’s Creative HQ for celebrating non-success. That, quite deliberately, is different from describing the five of the nine companies which went through LL’s 12 week accelerator programme as failures. Earlier in the year, … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Aug 20, 2013 •
Numbers tell a story on their own. And the fact that over 220 attendees ponyed up at the Mobile Tech Summit 2013 in Wellington on August 7 & 8 underscores the message that our natural resources aren’t as old-hat as … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • May 23, 2013 •
By guest blogger Doug Calhoun The Patents Bill has had a tortuous ride through Parliament – to say the least. Introduced in 2008, it was reviewed by a select committee in 2009 and reported back in March 2010. In September … Continue reading → … Read More