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Startups need to be a ‘little bit evil’

Posted on October 13, 2015 by sticknz

One of the big problems with startups is they’re not ‘evil’ enough. Now there’s a statement bound to make you go ‘huh’. “You need to be a little bit evil,” says Alistair Croll a speaker at Supercharge. Supercharge was a … Continue reading →

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BizDojo set to take its ‘co-working space’ model overseas

Posted on August 24, 2015 by sticknz

I had the pleasure of working out of Wellington’s BizDojo about four years ago on a project to collate just who were the local Wellington  companies using R&D in their businesses. If I had to give a description then, I’d … Continue reading →

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Is Startup Weekend missing a middle-aged trick?

Posted on May 12, 2015 by sticknz

As one of many simultaneous events taking place around the world, the Wellington Startup Weekend took place on April 10 – 12 at Creative HQ. Now one of the purposes of the weekend event is not necessarily to create new … Continue reading →

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Open for thinking, open for participation, open for collaboration

Posted on April 2, 2015 by sticknz

The name of the two day Wellington conference on Thursday and Friday 16/17 April says it all. Open Source//Open Society (OS//OS). As a digital immigrant who has, without sometimes knowing why, gone down he android path for my devices, I’m … Continue reading →

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Lightning Lab II grows up – will its offspring make it to adolescence?

Posted on June 3, 2014 by sticknz

  Anyone that’s been around young children will appreciate there’s a heck of a difference between a one year old and a two year old. A similar comparison is valid with Lightning Lab II, which last week had nine of … Continue reading →

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The heart of the matter, and a matter of the heart, is design by intention

Posted on October 1, 2013 by sticknz

Seeing as on the design side of things I’m more in the ‘I know when it works, I just don’t know how to do it properly’ camp…here’s a plug to the UX Design Day. UX stands for User Experience – … Continue reading →

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Non-success gets a deserved recognition

Posted on September 24, 2013 by sticknz

A thumbs up to Lightning Lab and Wellington’s Creative HQ for celebrating non-success. That, quite deliberately, is different from describing the five of the nine companies which went through LL’s 12 week accelerator programme as failures. Earlier in the year, … Continue reading →

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Primary industry mobile tech forum draws the digerati

Posted on August 20, 2013 by sticknz

Numbers tell a story on their own. And the fact that over 220 attendees ponyed up at the Mobile Tech Summit 2013 in Wellington on August 7 & 8 underscores the message that our natural resources aren’t as old-hat as … Continue reading →

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Key’s causing of capital introspection is probably good for us

Posted on May 28, 2013 by sticknz

As much as Prime Minister John Key has attempted to water down his ‘Wellington is dying’ aside, at the very least it has provided a good opportunity for some capital introspection. One thing Key might be doing is confusing busyness … Continue reading →

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Agile methodology seems to suit kiwi psyche

Posted on December 23, 2010 by sticknz

A relatively recent ‘movement’ in software development runs the risk of dovetailing perfectly with the kiwi psyche. ‘Agile Methodology’, as used by super graphics creators BIS2, is, as self-defined, a quicker and better means of delivering bespoke software to clients. … Continue reading →

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