Over 500 startups thrive in NZ, even as VCs invest over USD 140 mn: Report
With a population of fewer than 5 million people, the New Zealand startup ecosystem is up and thriving.
There are about 500 startups across several verticals, VC investment has ranged between $90 million and $140 million in the past three years, and New Zealand has been named the #1 country in the world for ease of doing business.
While 2017 has...
Proven Steps to the Most Productive Day You’ll Ever Have
By Zdravko Cvijetic
“In the realm of time, there is no aristocracy of wealth and no aristocracy of intellect. Genius is never rewarded by even an extra hour a day. And there is no punishment. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you. You cannot draw the future. Impossible to...
8 Simple Things Every Freelancer Should Do to Be Productive and Profitable
By Nicolas Cole
I used to be a freelancer (before founding Digital Press).
But being an effective one-man band is a lot more than just making coffee at home (or finding a local coffee shop) and being productive for a few hours.
In fact, it’s more of a test of your ancillary skill sets than anything else.
1. Create your own daily schedule — and stick to it.
One of the first challenges...
7 Steps for Finding Startup Investors
By Quora
Entrepreneurs make a common mistake when it comes to raising money for their startup — they don’t start soon enough.
They think they should put their heads down and develop their prototypes or set up their business, and then put some thought into getting funding. But it doesn’t work like that.
You can’t spend six months building a prototype, then wake up one...
The Thought Process Behind Startup Ideas
By Todd Belveal
By Todd Belveal, Founder and CEO at Washlava (2015-present). Originally published on Quora.
I meet a lot of people who want to build startups as a career.
They graduate from an entrepreneurship program, and they search for a startup. They have a sense of the process for building one, but they’re missing something really important.
An idea.
To me, that’s putting the cart before the horse....
Ola to add 10,000 electric three-wheelers to its fleet under ‘Mission: Electric’
Indian taxi-hailing company Ola, has today announced its "Mission: Electric", under which it has committed to adding 10,000 e-rickshaws and electric auto-rickshaws in its service in the next one year. These electric vehicles will be deployed in three cities, but Ola has not disclosed their names so far.
The company is in discussion with various state governments to create a...
How to land your start up’s first customer.
By Anna Talerico
You have a company. You have a product. Maybe it’s been released, maybe it hasn’t (but will be soon).
Now what?
Now it’s time to sell. Now it’s time to get a customer. Or two. Or 100. Or 1,000. It’s go time.
When my boutique, custom web development company launched a SaaS landing page tool, here’s what we had:
A small...
Ideal Insurance raises $1 million led by Venture Catalysts
Insurance management startup Ideal Insurance has raised about US $1 million led by Venture Catalysts in its seed round of funding. A number of industrialists and leaders from the VCats’ investor panel including Nitesh Prakash of Ola, Atul Jain of Samyakth Finserv and promoters of Nandan Steel, Maithan group, Primarc, Atha group also participated in the investment round.
Launched by...
3 Reasons Why The Journey Of Achieving Your Goals Can Be More Rewarding
By Tony Fahkry
What Constitutes Fulfilling Goals
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ernest Hemingway
To accomplish your goals focus on the process instead of the prize.
What do I mean by process?
You know the importance of goal setting. From early on you have been encouraged to set goals and work...
Being a Successful Entrepreneur is not only about Ideas
By Starta HQ
Ideas are a dime a dozen, but success only comes through action.
If building a successful business was just about having the best ideas, we’d all be living large right now. Having the idea is just the beginning of the journey. But there’s a lot more to successful entrepreneurship.
So, you’ve got a fabulous new idea. It involves building or...
Nobody likes using technology
By Paras Chopra
If you are an engineer, the title of this article may shock (or even offend) you. But if I rephrase, I’ll merely state what’s immediately obvious: people are motivated towards achieving their goals and technology is simply the means towards that end (and not an end in itself). This holds true even for engineers. When they get excited about new technology (say,...
India’s TravelTriangle raises USD 11 mn funding led by Fundamentum
Indian online travel platform, TravelTriangle, has announced that it has raised about USD 11 mn in series C funding led by Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal backed growth capital fund, Fundamentum.
The company's existing investors including SAIF Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, RB investments and a group of angel investors also participated in the funding.
Founded in 2011, TravelTriangle is an online...
5 Simple Ways To Get Closer To Your Dream Right Now.
By Tim Denning
I speak to a lot of people that want to leave their day job to pursue their dream. It seems that so many people find it very hard to make the transition. You should never spend a day of your life doing something for a living that you don’t love.
The days of slavery passed many years ago, and it’s...
The Art of Reaching Your Full Potential
By Zat Rana
When the Wright brothers flew the first aircraft in 1903, they redefined the course of history.
Suddenly, the world had become a lot smaller. There was possibility all around, and over the next few decades, the aviation industry began to boom and people were paying attention.
Amelia Earhart is one of the most famous names of the era. Remembered as...
How to Make Money Online: 38 Remote Jobs You Can Work This Year
By Phil Manning
Every year it's becoming easier to work from your laptop. If you haven’t thought about how to make money online you’re either…
A) 90 years old and your grandchild just got you your first computer,
or
B) uhhh honestly, I don’t know what the hell you’re doing.
…it’s 2017! And over $1.2 million is made every 30 seconds online…in e-commerce alone!
But if you’re here and reading...
How to Break Bad News to Investors!
By Founder Collective
There’s no good way to tell your board that you’ve blown a quarter, or your superstar head of data science is jumping ship to Google. Still, breaking bad news is a key skill for founders and delivering it well is often what keeps a company alive.
Oddly enough, it’s gotten harder to be the bearer of bad news because...
