Gen Z entrepreneurship isn’t just about tech start-ups or chasing scale. For young Kiwis like Stuart Savage, it’s about creativity, culture, and community – building ventures that carry meaning, craft, and legacy.
A hygienist troubled by the volume of plastic waste in the dental sector, Laura Nixon founded Solid with her husband Adam McConnochie.
What does it take to start a successful web-based comparative site? Denis Tyurkov and Michael Speight may well have mastered the art with Glimp. It has to be the dream of everyone who ‘sells time’ to earn a living: to have a business which earns them income while they aren’t ‘at work’. Such was the goal of two young immigrant entrepreneurs – turning their backs on secure jobs and taking the bold step of betting they could get their comparative website sufficiently profitable to pay their salaries before their savings ran out. They received no external investment, and yet today are ranked first on Google’s first page for ‘related terms’. All on a small marketing budget. The founders of Glimp,
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That humble Kiwi icon, the much revered hotdog, has been given a 21st century twist thanks to Jo and…
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