Category Archives: proprietary

Lightning Lab startups ask – ‘where’s the money’?

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

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 →

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Email sales tool allows companies to ‘dress to impress’

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

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 →

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Adding a hole lot of value to a piece of pine

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

We all know that we’d prefer to export more than just a log of pine to overseas markets. At the same time, the NZ Inc desire to add value to our raw commodities such as trees is almost tiresome through … Continue reading →

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What a problem for ikeGPS…..managing its growth!

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

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 →

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We all own our agricultural story…..that’s the problem

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

This post also runs at pasture Harmonies. The trouble is; we all own New Zealand’s agricultural story. That is, the huge collective effort that went into figuring out, developing and improving the soil, pasture and plant/animal interaction that is our … Continue reading →

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Getting to a BLISful state a long and winding road

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

Dunedin-based BLIS’s oral cavity probiotic products have “spent a long time on the runway”, as it chief executive Dr Barry Richardson described the other day. (Briefly wearing a journalist hat, I interviewed Richardson for BusinessDesk). There’s a certain irony in … Continue reading →

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Standing for nothing does our agriculture a big non-favour

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

This story also appears at http://www.pastureharmonies.org If you stand for nothing; does that mean anything is acceptable….or not? This is the dilemma for NZ Inc agriculture as AgResearch announces the recent success of ‘Daisy’ a cow genetically modified to produce … Continue reading →

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New media + books = Literary Angels: friend recommendations set to fly

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

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 →

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ATI Establishment Board role far bigger than most people realise

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

For something that has the extremely important job of kicking along (on an NZ Inc basis) the never simple endeavour of turning of an idea into income, the Advanced Technology Institute’s Establishment Board has so far operated very below the … Continue reading →

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Patents Bill Second Reading: A Software Storm in an Ideological Teacup

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

By guest blogger Doug Calhoun Thirty years after the Muldoon government first looked at patent law reform, a new patent law is on track to come into force by the end of 2013. This guest blogger has been involved in … Continue reading →

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