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New Zealand business recession stories
In 2006, Rod Drury founded Xero, a cloud-based accounting software company in New Zealand. When the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) hit in 2008, businesses struggled, but Xero saw an opportunity. They recognised that small businesses would look for cost-effective and efficient solutions to manage their finances remotely.
Despite the recession, Xero focused [...]
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2021 China insights
After one and a half years of Covid, the world is still living behind locked borders. With the majority of big events being postponed, the 2020 Olympics finally took place in August 2021, a year later. Albeit without an audience of course. Due to technology, we have been able to streamline the games and keep […]
Capital Raising: Where you get it from matters
If you’re running a start-up that’s getting traction, you’re probably somewhere on the capital raising cycle (although there are notable exceptions to this). You might have a bit of angst about the amount of runway you have left before you miss a pay run, and how much time and energy the process is going to […]
A world where trust trumps fear
Whilst the lockdowns of sixteen months ago affected everyone’s lives differently, it gave us time to gain perspective and adjust our priorities (and no – this is not another Covid article). For many, being required to physically distance ourselves from our families, friends, and generally others has reminded us how important human contact and connection […]
Hankering: a strong desire to ‘have’ or ‘do’ something
It starts in way I can only describe as a hankering. What triggers that hankering I can’t explain. Perhaps it’s the change of seasons, a smell, a memory, a sense of unease or some other unconscious trigger. Whatever it is, my mind latches on to that ember of a hankering. There it sits, smouldering away, […]
Keeping up with the cloud
People say nothing is ever constant. But what about change? The world we live in is constantly changing, and we as human beings are continuously growing and adapting every day (most of the time, it’s happening without us even realising). One thing that has transformed our world at an unbelievably rapid pace, is technology. Over […]
