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Winning the 2019 David Awards was one of many highlights last year for Christchurch’s Alex Watson and The Little Bone Broth Company.
Winning the 2019 David Awards was one of many highlights last year for Christchurch’s Alex Watson and The Little Bone Broth Company.
Sarah McMurray and Mark Ternent like to think of their business partnership as a Yin and Yang dynamic. It has served their IT business well over the years. They make an interesting
Overcoming adversity is the common theme throughout the December issue of NZBusiness.
When Yuri Aristarco and Daniela Burlando said ‘arrivederci’ to Italy, for life in Nelson and their artisan gelato business, they were committing themselves to a unique set of challenges. It’s
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
Overcoming adversity is the common theme throughout the lastest issue – a theme every business owner can relate to.
Winning the 2019 David Awards was one of many highlights last year for Christchurch’s Alex Watson and The Little Bone Broth Company.
Sarah McMurray and Mark Ternent like to think of their business partnership as a Yin and Yang dynamic. It has served their IT business well over the years. They make an interesting duo – particularly when you examine their respective backgrounds. Sarah McMurray was a pioneer female systems engineer with Fujitsu, promoted from a young age. An avid surfer (Peka Peka beach is her local favourite) and qualified surf lifesaver, she set up Kapiti-based GTB IT Solutions in 1999, initially to provide corporate-quality IT support “without corporate’s bad bits”. Sarah’s goal was to eventually swap the business for an outdoor adventure enterprise – but that has yet to happen. Mark Ternent began his career in the Navy – rising to the rank
Overcoming adversity is the common theme throughout the December issue of NZBusiness.
When Yuri Aristarco and Daniela Burlando said ‘arrivederci’ to Italy, for life in Nelson and their artisan gelato business, they were committing themselves to a unique set of challenges. It’s a classic story of business romance. Travel to the other side of the world; fall in love with a city; set up a business creating true artisan gelato; and proceed to make the local, and wider, population swoon with delight. That’s the story of Yuri Aristarco and Daniela Burlando and their Nelson-based Gelato Roma business. The couple believed Europe would not offer the lifestyle they were looking for – such as spending more time with their two children, working fairer hours, with less pressure and easy daily access to fulfilling
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
Overcoming adversity is the common theme throughout the lastest issue – a theme every business owner can relate to.
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