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Category Archives: cloud computing
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 Lightning Labs, Tui Te Hau, demo day
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One way to crack a coder shortage
Ever tried to get hold of a professional who can write computer code? Such is the shortage, that a recent would-be returning ex-pat Kiwi, who knew how to program, put out a general inquiry through WellRailed if anyone in Wellington … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Development, education, IT, SciBlogs, technology
Tagged Chalkle, Joshua Vial, Ruby
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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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The Power of Un-Location gets an airing
Toby Ruckert of Unified Inbox had an interesting blog recently – demonstrating what he has called the Power of Un-Location. (sticK had a blog on an earlier version of Unified Inbox here.) For a brief period while in Shanghai, he … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Entrepreneur, Innovation, IT, SciBlogs, sustainability, technology
Tagged disconnecting, Toby Ruckert, Unified Inbox
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Creating a deep infrastructure tool and asset for Christchurch – a (relatively) cheap idea well worth NZ Inc considering
Here’s an idea, so time topical it deserves much more thinking about by Christchurch, government and NZ Inc. The Cement & Concrete Association of NZ’s (CCANZ) education and development manager Joe Gamman spoke at the recent Multicore World 2013 conference … Continue reading
Getting to grips with multicore’s hugely disruptive technology – an opportunity for NZ Inc
There was some serious brainpower assembled at the recent Multicore World 2013 conference in Wellington. Some of the subject matter was way-beyond the once over lightly understanding that I have of computers and computing. But the clear message was that … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, open source, SciBlogs, technology
Tagged Ian Foster, Nicolas Erdody, Open Parallel, Poul-Henning Kamp
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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
Personalised time/place knowledge goal of ThunderMaps
Location-based intelligence is one of the up-and-coming applications of all things mobile. Wellington-based startup ThunderMaps reckons it has a solution to a problem – individuals and organisations having geo-knowledge that is valuable to others, but having no practical way of … Continue reading
TIN100 again proves it is the meat of an innovation club sandwich
One way to consider the value of the TIN100 report is to consider what things would be like if it didn’t exist. The almost 200 colour page report on the NZ-owned top 100 (well 200 if you count the additional … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, SciBlogs, Science, sustainability, technology
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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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