Tagged: writer for hire

The Kiwi innovation space is starting to look awfully crowded - Stick

Peter Kerr • Apr 16, 2014 •

• Angel investment,
• Callaghan Innovation,
• contract writer,
• crowded,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• innovation council,
• Sciblogs,
• Science policy,
• start-up,
• writer for hire

Is it just me, or is the innovation/commercialisation space looking awfully crowded and confused these days? Sure, we like to think we’re (NZ Inc) inventive and entrepreneurial. But there seem to be more entities out there offering innovation (and I … Continue reading → … Read More

Re-arranging science funding’s deck chairs - Stick

Peter Kerr • Apr 09, 2014 •

• contract writer,
• Early stage science,
• entrepreneur,
• GETS,
• Health Research Council,
• high tech,
• HRC,
• independent research funding,
• innovation,
• Sciblogs,
• Science policy,
• writer for hire

Well, I guess you can’t have too many science funding bodies… An alert colleague pointed out a GETS call for applications for – Capability in Independent Research Organisations Funding. (GETS Reference: 41196) This fund is aimed at non-Crown Research Institutes, … Continue reading → … Read More

A trial with zero percent success proves trap’s worth - Stick

Peter Kerr • Mar 18, 2014 •

• A24,
• contract writer,
• development,
• goodnature,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• pest control,
• rats,
• Sciblogs,
• stoat,
• Stu Barr,
• Sustainability,
• writer for hire

 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

Driver of Callaghan accelerator services to put pedal to the metal? - Stick

Peter Kerr • Mar 04, 2014 •

• Angel investment,
• Callaghan Innovaiton,
• Chris Somogyi,
• CI,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• Sciblogs,
• Science policy,
• start-up,
• writer for hire

We’ll make the assumption that Callaghan Innovation’s new GM of Accelerator Services isn’t there for the money. Chris Somogyi’s come relatively unannounced to the crown entity whose role is to accelerate the commercialisation of innovation by NZ firms. Softly, softly … Continue reading → … Read More

Finding the fruitful intersection of ideas and organisation - Stick

Peter Kerr • Feb 18, 2014 •

• contract writer,
• development,
• Handbook of Management and Creativity,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• Stephen Cummings,
• writer for hire

 Ultimately this blog is a plug for Stephen Cummings handbook of ways that business can fruitfully marry management and creativity. Along the way it is also an endorsement of the Professor of Management at Victoria University’s Business School, and in … Continue reading → … Read More

We’re getting over our notions of shame around business failure - Stick

Peter Kerr • Dec 10, 2013 •

• Angel investment,
• business failure,
• contract writer,
• Dead Startup Society,
• entrepreneur,
• innovation,
• Lightning Labs,
• Market validation,
• Prototyping,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• TIN 100,
• writer for hire

I’m putting the proposition out there that we’re getting over our collective Kiwi hang-up about startup and business failure. That is, whereas in the past we’d write somebody off for having tried, and been not successful in a new business … Continue reading → … Read More

KiwiNet and the sell of commercialisation - Stick

Peter Kerr • Nov 26, 2013 •

• andrew coy,
• Commercialisation,
• contract writer,
• Early stage science,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• Kiwinet,
• Magritek,
• Market validation,
• Prototyping,
• Ruth Richardson,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• university,
• writer for hire

There’s always something to learn at commercialisation workshops. KiwiNet, the group-hug of university and CRI commercialisation units held a Wellington-based forum around understanding customers. So, here’s couple of interesting bits and pieces from the day – of which I was … Continue reading → … Read More

‘Always be pitching, looking for feedback’ – Wipster’s Rollo Wenlock - Stick

Peter Kerr • Nov 19, 2013 •

• Angel investment,
• cloud computing,
• contract writer,
• development,
• editing,
• entrepreneur,
• innovation,
• Market validation,
• private equity,
• Rollo Wenlock,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• video,
• Wipster,
• writer for hire

“Get your idea out there as much as possible, pitch it to everyone, even to strangers in a cafe, see what happens. If it doesn’t resonate, you probably don’t have anything.” That was Wipster head sherang’s advice given at Wellington’s … Continue reading → … Read More

High tech bible also delivers insights into business disposition - Stick

Peter Kerr • Nov 12, 2013 •

• awards,
• entrepreneur,
• greg shanahan,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• Jo-Anne Hazel,
• Sciblogs,
• TIN 100,
• writer for hire

The TIN100 Report aims to be an authoritative, dispassionate look at the high tech manufacturing, ICT and biotech industries of New Zealand. Through a thorough process, TIN100 founder Greg Shanahan, and research and publication manager Jo-Anne Hazel have put together … Continue reading → … Read More

Plenty of traps along the way for pest eradicators - Stick

Peter Kerr • Oct 29, 2013 •

• contract writer,
• development,
• Early stage science,
• entrepreneur,
• goodnature,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• pests,
• possums,
• proprietary,
• Sciblogs,
• Stu Barr,
• Sustainability,
• writer for hire

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