2019

Dovetail’s Ash Fogelberg and Nick Frandsen are a couple of schoolmates who dropped out of Uni to embark on a spectacular start-up journey. Ash shares their five rules for succeeding in business. After first meeting as 16 year olds at Wanaka’s Mount Aspiring College, Ash Fogelberg and Nick Frandsen went on to become best mates and, in their early 20s, business partners with their ticketing and payments company 1-Night. Entrepreneurship comes naturally to these two. After dropping out of university to start 1-Night they quickly built the company up, always with a view to a managed exit and acknowledging the fact that it would be a learning experience. ‘High growth, high potential’’ soon became Ash and Nick’s mantra for business

Reefton was a West Coast boomtown during the gold and coal mining era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today it is experiencing another major revival – attracting a new generation of residents and entrepreneurs with a wealth of business ideas. By Glenn Baker. There is no peak-hour traffic in Reefton. At 7.30 on a Monday morning, with the mist shrouding the surrounding hills, I’m strolling up the main drag of Broadway. It’s blissfully quiet and empty. It’s hard to believe more than a thousand people live here on the doorstep of the West Coast’s spectacular wilderness region – nestled between the pristine, 250,000-hectare Victoria Conservation Park and Paparoa ranges, and with its very own micro-climate. It’s a beautiful