Category Archives: New business

November 27, 2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, New business, New Zealand, SaaS 1 Comment

LeftClick Scores a Coup

By Ben Kepes

Great to see some press time for LeftClick, a company I’ve had a bit to do with in an informal advisory role. LeftClick’s motto is “Make Every Click Count” and that’s what they do – increase the return on investment for web businesses by ensuring that more visits convert into

November 21, 2008 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 1 Comment

What NZ SMEs really need….

By Ben Kepes

Rod posted about their report into productivity gains for the New Zealand SME community. As Rod pointed out – this is an extremely important issues given that; Small Business contributes $50b to New Zealand’s GDP! We believe online technology is the key to improving productivity in the sector. The numbers

November 17, 2008 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 1 Comment

Governments Role in Business

By Ben Kepes

I was alerted to this article which tells of the Australian Government’s funding of 57 research projects to the tune of $3.6 million. Each of the projects was given $64000 to continue development of their projects. The projects where in such diverse areas as online-training, animation and video-ad serving. Reading

November 10, 2008 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, Strategy 2 Comments

Wellington IS the World…

By Ben Kepes

Or almost…. On Friday night I had the privilege of MCing the Unlimited Potential Wellington to the World event. W2W showcased two things I consider very important, the application and commercialisation of research, and new business. It was a great evening, I caught up with a bunch of people I

November 4, 2008 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 7 Comments

Banking 2.0 (Or At Least a Start)

By Ben Kepes

I’m not a huge fan of banks. While they’re (currently a necessary evil) – it’s hard not to think that they’re generally just a middle man taking a (substantial) cut for no real benefit. I mean if they provided a great service and made our lives easier we wouldn’t mind

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November 3, 2008 Posted in Business, Economic Development, New business, New Zealand 1 Comment

Wellington to the World – This Friday

By Ben Kepes

Just a reminder for those of you who are in Wellington (or will be this Friday) that the Wellington to the World event is happening. I’m honoured to have been asked to MC the event – both as a former (and still in mind if not in body) Wellingtonian and

October 27, 2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New business, Strategy 2 Comments

The Best, Shortest Blog Post I’ve Yet Seen

By Ben Kepes

Over on Julian’s blog, J posted a pearler (that’s antipodean talk for a great post) Worlds shortest blog post – "How do you build a world class software product, compete with large players and grow an excellent, loyal user base on a near $0 advertising budget?" It’s fairly easy. Talk,

October 24, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New business, Strategy, Web x.0 3 Comments

So What is This Twitter Thing Then….

By Ben Kepes

I spend a lot of time speaking with both proponents and sceptics of Twitter (and by extension microblogging in general). Basically the proponents say that Twitter; Breaks down silos Connects them to people they wouldn’t otherwise be in a position to communicate with Is a fantastic way to leverage the

October 23, 2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, Strategy 4 Comments

A Search Engine? Now That’s Novel

By Ben Kepes

Interesting to spot the New Zealand business interview with new search engine entrant Searchii. Searchii is a new search engine whose stunning point of difference is…. that it comes from New Zealand. Now I take my hat off to any entrepreneur who begins a new venture – it’s hard work

October 22, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, New business, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Society, Strategy 2 Comments

Building Online Communities

By Ben Kepes

The latest issues of Start-Up magazine is out and it includes a feature article I wrote about building online communities. It’s a subject close to my heart and one which I’m currently involved in with a (slightly) stealth project. The article can be seen here. In it I look at

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.