Friday 23 September 2016
Blakeway feeds Tauranga’s entrepreneurs All those who are weary of working for others, who are frustrated that products they need aren’t already on the market; whose vision for efficient new business mechanisms is thwarted by the daily grind…Tauranga Startup Weekend 2016 is coming. And it’s the ideal place to lay down your current burdens for a more independent yoke, says Venture Centre co-founder Jo Allum. From September 23-25, Tauranga residents are
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invited to Durham St’s Basestation, to learn how best to start a business – and Jo promises they’ll be well fed while they do. According to Jo, there are seven things you need to know about Tauranga Startup Weekend. 1. It runs throughout the weekend, from 5.30pm Friday to 8pm Sunday. 2. It costs $99 to participate, or $49 for students with identification. 3. Attendees will be fed and watered, and generally looked after with healthy snacks during the whole weekend – including a chef ’s lunch, tenderly prepared by celebrity chef Peter Blakeway. 4. There are more than 50 people already signed up, ready to change their lives and those around them. 5. There’s the opportunity to spend time with and get to know people who would normally be hard or impossible to pin down – CEOs, investors, executives, serial entrepreneurs, designers, marketers, and techie experts who can build knowledge on apps, websites, drones, sensors, and much more. 6. Participants get to walk through the exact same process, creating successful startup companies globally, and to do it with seriously good mentors. 7. It is organised and run entirely by volunteers from Tauranga’s business, startup and entrepreneur community, who give their time and effort for free to enable others to flourish. Generous sponsors help by paying for resources needed to make the experience complete. Jo credits the annual event’s ongoing success to the group of “very generous and passionate entrepreneurial volunteers, who have worked their socks off to organise again this year”. “And the sponsors, who support with time as well as cash.” There are a limited number of places still available, so visit: tauranga.startupweekend.org
Is your house summer ready? There’s still a chill in the air but temperatures and the humidity will soon rise. Many homeowners will soon wonder how to keep control of their environment during summer. The answer, Shane Snowden says, is a heat pump which doubles as an airconditioning unit. Now is the time you
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