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IP protection should be a means to add value to a business, not just for attracting investment, but also as a revenue generator through licensing and other arrangements, says Rachel Colley.
IP protection should be a means to add value to a business, not just for attracting investment, but also as a revenue generator through licensing and other arrangements, says Rachel Colley.
Dunedin-based start-up Hail creates websites and publishes digital communications instantly across all channels. It’s a one-stop shop for getting your content out into the marketplace, and it’s going places fast.
If you’ve applied to the usual commercial lenders for a modest business loan and been turned down, then Microwise may be able to help.
Webscope is a great example of how a merging of skill-sets and a collaborative team culture can result in more than satisfactory outcomes for clients.
A new highly engaging generation of software has the power to super-charge any organisation’s worker productivity. John Jones explains the how and the why. ‘Gamification’ might just sound like another
Treating your business goals as projects gives them a much better chance of being achieved. Dr Mike Ashby explains. I’ve been thinking a lot about the wrestling that goes on between “in” and “on”, or as I described it in the last column, your job vs the business. Another way of distinguishing these is between BAU (Business – or Busyness – as Usual) on the one hand and special effort on the other. Busyness As Usual gives us the expected results for the usual input and activity. It’s all the stuff that gets generated by being in business – interactions with clients, prospects, staff, suppliers, etc. It comes at us at least as fast (often faster) than our ability to process
Is your relationship with money sabotaging your business success? Lynda Moore offers some insightful advice. Managing your business and personal finances should be easy, shouldn’t it? Spend less than you earn, pay yourself first and don’t forget the taxman; easy peasy. But if it’s so easy why do so many businesses struggle? Many small businesses are started by ‘doers’. The amazing architect, plumber, doctor or personal trainer goes ‘out on their own’. They are fantastic at their profession but they don’t know how to run a business. The customers get the blame; “they don’t pay me on time”, or it’s the IRD; “I’m paying too much tax” or “I hate doing the paperwork.” Business owners haven’t been taught financial management, so that
Grant Difford solves problems and tells stories for a living. His creative agency Waking Giants is growing together as a team, with one eye on creativity and the other on entrepreneurship.
Wellington’s Mike de Lange set out to do something quite different with his salad bar Seize. It’s having a hugely positive effect on the local community.
Two Silicon Valley heavyweights hit our shores recently to foster links with Kiwi entrepreneurs and get them to brag better in the run-up to ‘New Zealand in Silicon Valley’ in September.
Customer relationship management systems may appear confusing to the uninitiated, but when applied properly to businesses, they have a major impact on the bottom line.
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