Indian-born Sakshin Niranjan has launched the business, NexDo, which connects home services providers with customers via bookings through an app or on a website. The entrepreneur who helped launch ride-share [ … ]
Category: Small Business
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City Rail Link delays hitting businesses around Auckland’s K Rd
Today, the Transport Minister and Auckland city officials lauded the Karangahape Road Enhancements project, which has seen the street tidied up, and cycleways installed. However the pain rolls on for [ … ]
Selfstarters launches accelerator support for tech companies
Since arriving in the market in June 2020, Selfstarters clients have generated millions of dollars in revenue, a figure that continues to grow. Selfstarters founder and growth coach Flavio Hangarter [ … ]
Framework provides workplace diversity & inclusion standard
The launch of a national framework to assess levels of workplace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) will give New Zealand organisations an understanding of their current capabilities, identify areas for [ … ]
Covid pushed me into starting a business
When Mike Richmond left Auckland with his partner and their two children last April to spend lockdown with his parents he had no inkling that he would be taking a [ … ]
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How a Kiwi-based app became a ‘game-changer’ for schools in Covid lockdown
When a frustrated Kaikōura mum first developed a parent-school communication app, she could not have known the impact it would have during the global pandemic nearly a decade later. Tired [ … ]
A faster way to pay and be paid
Kiwi-founded Dosh(link is external) will allow instant payments via mobile numbers or QR codes on a smartphone, significantly reduced fees for retailers and the ability to earn rewards from stores. [ … ]
Council to scrap alcohol bylaw in 12 months
Southland district liquor licensees will no longer get a discount but have dodged proposed fee increases. Southland district councillors have decided to scrap their Alcohol Licensing Fee-Setting Bylaw 2015, effective [ … ]
Bank of Mum and Dad helps in business too
Nipoon Patel and his business partner Nikhil Sethi are hugely grateful their parents’ financial backing is helping bankroll their start-up, Tabin, aiming to make life easier for owners of cafes, [ … ]
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New businesses need pandemic support – coffee entrepreneur
Wairarapa-based business Bean Merchant uses a computer algorithm to figure out which coffee suits each customer after they complete an online quiz on their tastes and habits. Its founder Jono [ … ]