It’s hard to believe that it’s over two years since I first posted articles to this blog asking the simple question. Can Tauranga replicate Boulder? For those of you who might have missed them, you can view the original posts below. They are as relevant today as they were then. Can Tauranga Replicate Boulder? - Part 1 (Introduction) Can Tauranga [...]
It’s not often that this blog talks about politics. In our world, it is what it is. And that doesn’t matter whether we are dealing with the US, China, the UK or Australia. Today however, we will nail our colours firmly to the mast. Wharf42 strongly supports the signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership in Auckland today. In New Zealand, [...]
David Porter, Business Editor of the Bay of Plenty Times, wrote up an interesting piece in Saturday’s paper. He talked about how a new regional research institute in the Bay would build on existing initiatives taking place in the region. The background to the piece goes back to the Government’s 2015 Budget. The Government then announced that up to three [...]
Last week, the Bay of Plenty Times published an article which talked about the progress that WNT Ventures (WNT) was making. Yesterday, I took part in a WNT Board call from my office in Silicon Valley. The location was fitting, but more of that later. First however, a quick recap. WNT is one of the three new tech-focused Incubators that [...]
You can now view the WNT Ventures website at www.wntventures.co.nz In the next couple of weeks, WNT Ventures will be announcing the identity of the successful applicant to the recently advertised Venture Manager vacancy. Expect a Version 2.0 of the website to be released shortly after. In the meantime, it has been full throttle for the wider WNT Ventures team. [...]
Four weeks ago, I posted my last ‘Can Tauranga Replicate Boulder?’ article to this blog. In that article I said, ‘I believe that Tauranga is now at the point where it has reached a tipping point and both can and will build its own variation of a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem. It’s time to start talking about the Tauranga model’. It [...]
UPDATED 12 June: The Award Winners UPDATED 16.00: The presentations at today's #KiwiNetAwards have demonstrated some of the exciting innovation and technology that is being generated by New Zealand Universities and Crown Research Institutes. Since much of the focus of the day has been on the commercialisation of this research, a number of great stories have been told around the [...]
Over the past few weeks, I have posted several articles which have identified traits in the build of Boulder’s startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem that are reflected in Tauranga. I have talked about the role of Local Government, the role of a University and the role of the Investment community. Today, I want to begin to tie in some of these [...]
