Tag Archives: sli

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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June 2, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, Strategy Leave a comment

Eurekster back up but for how long?

By Ben Kepes

In an on-again off-again tale of woe, Eurekster‘s site is back up again. Last week it was reported that the site was down. It is now back up with a blog post saying that all the “problems” of the past few days are over. In January a related company gave

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May 23, 2008 Posted in New business, New Zealand, Strategy 1 Comment

Is Eurekster dead?

By Ben Kepes

I hope not – it’s be a sad day for Christchurch – Eurekster was the latest in the line of Ryan brother’s startups and it was garenring a reasonable degree of credibility. In March 2007 Tech Crunch reported that they’d got $5.5mil VC funding but as RWW reports, the site

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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.