What’s Angel Investment? Angel Investment is a relatively new term for New Zealand.  It’s a term, borrowed from the Americans, used to refer to those people or groups of people prepared to invest in very early stage business ideas.  Typically, Angel Investors are those people prepared to: take a punt, and work along side people […]

Well no surprises from Vodafone with their iPhone pricing announcement.  I’m sure there will be lots of fuming punters out there.  It seems the basic patter is “New Zealand is expensive (cell-phone duopoly after all) and we’re just pricing the iPhone at the same rate as other high end phones…in New Zealand”. That said, the iPhone is obviously […]

I came accross http://www.startup-review.com/ the other day.  The site is a collection of case study type reviews on successful web based startups – written by Nissan Gabbay of Silicon Valley VC firm, Sierra Ventures. The site features weekly, in-depth case studies on successful (global) Internet start-ups. The companies profiled have achieved either: a) significant exits, b) large revenue, and/or […]

Angel Association New Zealand Media release 1 July 2008 Angel industry group established Angel investor groups have formed a new industry body – the Angel Association New Zealand – to advocate for and to promote best practice within the fastgrowing investment sector. The association’s members consist of 15 angel groups from around New Zealand. Andy […]

Recently I picked up a book with the unlikely title – ‘Kauffman Thought book 2007’ intending only a quick and probably dismissive browse through the table of contents I discovered a chapter entitled Kauffman eVenturing.  Again a quick browse revealed that this chapter was effectively an advertisement for a website offering resources for entrepreneurs (http://eventuring.kauffman.org/).  Not just any resource […]

The original TradeMe angel investment company Movac and TradeMe founder Sam Morgan have joined forces again to back ebus, a local film and television production software company that is set to tackle Asia. ebus has developed cutting edge software that allows production teams, creatives  and their clients to access and edit the same piece of […]

I’ve had an opportunity to attend a few seminars on the R+D tax credit of late.  It doesn’t look like there’s going to be much love for software companies in this.  The credit is only to apply where something demonstrably novel has been created using a structured research process (NOTE: my interpretation, on what i’ve heard).  What […]