Category Archives: New business

August 21, 2009 Posted in Business, Design, Manufacturing, My businesses, New business, New Zealand 5 Comments

Yikes! The Ryans are at it again

By Ben Kepes

The Ryan brothers are something of a powerhouse of Kiwi entrepreneurship and innovation. Between them Doctors Shaun and Grant (underachievement obviously being a familial trait!) have set up and been involved in a raft of exciting companies – GlobalBrain, Eurekster, SLI Systems among them. They’re also involved in a bunch

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August 6, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, New business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

Trineo – Heading for the Big Time

By Ben Kepes


A few months ago I wrote a href="http://www.cloudave.com/link/making-crm-work-for-verticals"
target="_blank">post discussing some interesting vertical offerings that I’d seen built on top of the class="zem_slink" href="http://www.salesforce.com/"
rel="homepage"
title="Salesforce">salesforce.com platform. I alluded to a new offering that was, at that time in stealth mode – the company behind that offering, Trineo has been invited to San Francisco next week to pitch to a panel of investment and IT gurus, including class="zem_slink" href="http://www.sequoiacap.com/"
rel="homepage"
title="Sequoia Capital">Sequoia Capital, as part of the final selection process for the Force 40 Innovation Showcase competition, run by class="zem_slink" href="http://www.salesforce.com/"
rel="homepage" title="Salesforce">Salesforce.com as part of their Dreamforce conference in November.



Trineo is a development and


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June 1, 2009 Posted in Branding, New business, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Strategy Leave a comment

Another Quiver to the HB bow

By Ben Kepes

I’ve always had a huge amount of respect for the team over at HB media – this isn’t just because I’ve been involved with them in past and present projects – long before my work with Idealog magazine I commented on their innovative business model that takes the (arguably) dying

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March 10, 2009 Posted in Business, New business, New Zealand, Strategy 6 Comments

I Don’t Mean To Be Negative But….

By Ben Kepes

Computerworld told the story this morning of Wellington Apple premium reseller Bay which, only four months after opening, has closed down. Director Grant Bremner stated that “the business has attracted 80% of required capital, but needs an additional $100,000”. He has closed the shop but hopes to re-open in the

March 4, 2009 Posted in IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

A New Learning Resource from LearningSource

By Ben Kepes

After many months spent in super stealth mode, Another local SaaS product is coming out from under the covers. Training management system vendor LearningSource has gone public with their offering. Learning Source is a fully featured, end-to-end training management system that LearningSource believe will; streamline business processes help manage business

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February 12, 2009 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS 4 Comments

Another Local Payroll Entrant

By Ben Kepes

Awhile ago I wrote about iPayroll, a local SaaS payroll provider. New to the scene comes Flexitime, another payroll option. Whereas iPayroll is an official IRD intermediary, meaning that they can act as a company’s proxy when dealing with the IRD, Flexitime is a standalone service which means companies will

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January 21, 2009 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS 3 Comments

Diligent – The End Is Nigh

By Ben Kepes

Diligent Board Member Services (lots more info here) yesterday announced that they’d been successful in raising another round of funding. Diligent is positive saying that; [Diligent] that its ability to raise capital under such severe market conditions underlines the quality and potential of its Boardbooks product. This investment will strengthen

December 10, 2008 Posted in Economic Development, My businesses, New business, New Zealand, Strategy 1 Comment

Testing the Made from New Zealand widget

By Ben Kepes

I got an email from the [mfnz]Made From New Zealand[/mfnz] guys sayign that they have just released their new widget aimed at getting comapny information to show after blog posts (yup – much like crunchbase for for NZ companies. Check out my entires – [mfnz]bizchat[/mfnz], [mfnz]Cactus Climbing[/mfnz] and [mfnz]Diversity[/mfnz]. It

December 4, 2008 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, New business, New Zealand, Strategy, Web x.0 5 Comments

Bizchat is live….

By Ben Kepes

It’s been a long time coming! For some time now I’ve been alluding to a community site I was involved in creating. We’re finally ready to peel a few layers of the onion back. Bizchat has arrived on the world and awaits its members. So what is bizchat? Well in

November 28, 2008 Posted in Compliance, IT, New business, New Zealand, Strategy 8 Comments

Diligent Shareholders Consider Fight

By Ben Kepes

Around the same time that Xero listed on the NZX, fellow tech company Diligent Board Books did also. Diligent is a web enabled service that provides board members with all the information they require, while still meeting all the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley in terms of record keeping and audit.

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