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Cash matters
As part of an email to a client negotiating a deal I mentioned: Cash matters. We might contemplate equity arrangements as making us fortunes, making sure that you are swimming in cash along the way is...
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Trade Me Values
It’s great to see that Trade Me’s values have not changed in the years since I was there. The success of Trade Me was in no small part due to the sometimes rigorous enforcement of these. It’s no...
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PowerKiwi and the Fast50
We entered PowerKiwi into this year’s Deloitte Fast50, and the results are announced tonight. Powerkiwi sells FlowerPower and other products on online electricity retailer Powershop. We’ve had an...
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Fast50 special: Join Powershop and get $100 of free power
We are delighted that Powerkiwi was second in the NZ Fast 50 today. So we want to share the good vibes. Join Powershop here and we’ll kick in $100 of free power. It’s that simple. (But it won’t last...
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US Campaigning: Money please
This is the sort of email spam that I get from both sides of the US presidential election. First – the National Rifle Association. Apparently if you are a rifle owner then you are automatically Right...
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Plotting Apple’s next steps: Giant screens, merged iOS and OSX devices and cars?
A year ago, in The Steps for Apple beyond iPhone 5, I tried to map out the future of the iOS product range – focussing on the iPhone as the base. Let’s review how it went, and look at the next 12-24...
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Paying our tax – step 1 of 10 complete
It’s great to see that NZ Customs has introduced a website, WhatsMyDuty? to help us calculate how much GST (and other duties) we owe when importing goods. That includes ebooks, it seems: I’d assumed...
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Pacific Fibre II: Background and questions for new players
Kim.com is the first, among many I believe, to try to resurrect the case for Pacific Fibre. This has created a bit of a media kerfuffle, and so let’s get some background and questions for Kim and any...
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Starting with pain
Both Paul Graham, in a post about start-up ideas, and Vaughan Rowsell, with a just published interview, talk about the importance of understanding customer pains and needs. Vaughan first, from an...
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Another preventable accident
Every accident is preventable, and when you are on two wheels you become acutely aware of that reality. While we all have responsibility for the safety of everyone around us, we are also responsible...
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Lance Wiggs posted on your timeline
Facebook on facebook, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Facebook for me is a destination for my Twitter feed, and I seldom login. One result is that I get these strange emails from Facebook, that...
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Between Electric bikes and motorbikes
I’m a motorcyclist and a cyclist, but between the two is a market that is going to transform the way we thing about each – electric bikes. The traditional electric bike is bulky, clumsy and looks like...
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Pro bird or anti cat?
Gareth Morgan has creating a bit of a kerfuffle in New Zealand by going public with an education campaign about the dangers that cats place to our native birds. They are not alone in the destruction of...
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InternetNZ CE: Vikram, Jordan and you?
Vikram Kumar [his new blog] announced his departure from Internet NZ earlier this year. He leaves behind an impressive legacy, highlighted for me by three very successful NetHuis. Vikram pushed hard to...
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Fatally unsafe at speed
Nice picture huh. all those men in orange putting on quite the frenzied display as they erected a stage for the Laneways festival in Wynard Quarter, Auckland yesterday. You might want to click to zoom...
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Lower tolerance
People working unsafely. People denying that anthropogenic climate change exists or is even a problem. Copyright owners who refuse to sell their wares here and then complain when they are pirated....
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Selling your house the third way with 200 Square
Selling houses is painful – and while some folks really enjoy the challenge and do so privately, almost everyone uses a traditional real estate agent. And gets ripped off. Not that Real Estate agents...
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Tim Berners-Lee speaks: what can we do in NZ?
Tim Berners-Lee presented this evening in Wellington to an InternetNZ sponsored event, supported (and thank-you) by the Department of Internal Affairs (the NZ Government CIO), Chorus, Catalyst IT and...
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Thanks for the marvelous posting! Now find some positive work.
There is a particular hell reserved for people who hire people to place blog spam. It’s not a deep hell, like that reserved for the text scammers who preyed on love-struck kids, nor is it the...
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2012 Update: MyTours
MyTours is a web application what lets tourist authorities, museums and others create city walks and museum tours for iPhone, Windows and Android. We’ve been in business since 2009, and have helped...
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