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Category Archives: Angel investment
Lightning Lab startups ask – ‘where’s the money’?
Lightning Lab 2013 saw nine startups pitch their digital products to would-be investors last week, seeking expansion capital for ideas that 12 weeks before mostly existed on paper. The Wellington Demo Day saw highly polished presentations, with clear development plans … Continue reading
Posted in Angel investment, cloud computing, Development, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, Market validation, proprietary, SciBlogs, start-up
Tagged demo day, Lightning Labs, Tui Te Hau
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Email sales tool allows companies to ‘dress to impress’
On the face of it, creating clever emails with embedded graphics and other gee-whizz stuff that acts as a smart sales tool should be pretty easy. But (apparently), there’s only three companies around the world have pulled off the feat … Continue reading
Posted in Angel investment, cloud computing, Entrepreneur, high tech, proprietary, SciBlogs, technology
Tagged email solution, Jason Roberts, LiveLink Connect, sales, tool
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Lightning Labs shows off its first flowers of startup blooming
Lightning Labs, a lean startup hub of selected neophyte companies located for three months on Wellington’s The Terrace, gave a ‘where we’re at, what we’ve learned’ quickfire talks recently. The fullhouse (dozens on the waiting list), heard how the nine … Continue reading
Posted in Angel investment, Development, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, Market validation, SciBlogs, start-up, technology
Tagged Lightning Labs
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Wellington Startup Weekend well pitched
According to John Holt, the brainchild behind the San Francisco located Kiwi Landing Pad, the final pitch presentations at the Wellington Startup Weekend were better than 75% of those he’s seen in the USA. Given that those State-side entrepreneurs are … Continue reading
‘Foolproof’ writer to study difference between new business intent and reality
The writer of ‘Foolproof’ a tome about how to find and test great business opportunities through market validation is off writing books – at least for a while. In a previous incarnation, Wellingtonian Jenny Douché put out a series of … Continue reading
Posted in Angel investment, Development, education, Entrepreneur, Innovation, Market validation, Prototyping, SciBlogs
Tagged Foolproof, Jenny Douche, market validation
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Give up the total DIY for tech start-ups – Clark-Reynolds
The great Kiwi ‘traditional’ of do-it-yourself (DIY) has its downsides in many tech developments according to serial entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds. Speaking as one of a panel at Unlimited Potential’s AGM, Clark-Reynolds says entrepreneurs and start-up founders need to, quickly, get … Continue reading
What a problem for ikeGPS…..managing its growth!
The ikeGPS has the world at its feet – so much so it is going to have to carefully decide which of many markets it should attack first. The hand-held device integrates hardware and software and enables anyone from a … Continue reading
Posted in Angel investment, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, proprietary, SciBlogs
Tagged Glenn Milnes, ikeGPS
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Foolproof market validation tool for those of us who would be fools
‘Foolproof’ (great title) has been inspired by much of a working life immersed in entrepreneurial startups. Its author, Jenny Douché likes to think of the 188 page book as a resource for anyone looking to create or grow a business. … Continue reading
New media + books = Literary Angels: friend recommendations set to fly
Literary Angels, a Facebook (with other social media to come) book socialising, tracking and selling tool, could be exactly what the publishing industry has been looking for. LA sets up a unique identity for a hard copy or e-book, allowing … Continue reading
An angel lines up in books’ corner
Here are two aspects of books – an industry ripe for a social media makeover. Firstly, chances are, if you’ve had a good read lately, you’ve told someone else about it. Secondly, with the sometimes predicted death of printed books … Continue reading
Posted in Angel investment, cloud computing, Development, Entrepreneur, Innovation, SciBlogs, sustainability, technology
Tagged authors, books, Lisa Buchan, Literary Angels, Mike Peters, publishers, Vangelizer
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