That’s Paul Graham from yCombinator’s number one quality he looks for in start up founders. Everything can and will go wrong, but drive and an unwillingness to accept defeat will see great founders through to success. It may not come on the first start-up, but it will eventually come. Flexibility, imagination, naughtiness and friendship are …
Monthly Archives: October 2010
NZ Oil and Gas email scammer
NZOG’s CFO apparently not only wants to shift a bunch of money, but he also has an email address in Kazakstan. Who knew. Sadly the chances of a random person on a spammers email list being from New Zealand is much higher than, say, Nigeria. Good day, It took me a lot of time to …
How to save money by being more green with no pain
Change your printer and your AC unit. That’s pretty much all a small design firm did in California, along with swapping their SUV for a Prius. They first tried a bunch of other stuff to reduce emissions, and only replaced the printer and air conditioning when they had to. The results were startling: they reduced …
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Big data – what will you use it for?
I was speaking to a colleague today in Australia – he was upset that Telstra increased his data plan to 50 GB without changing the price. His point was that he only uses 4 GB per month, but Telstra gave no option for him to reduce his cost by reducing his cap – the next …
Time to fix the jury service
There is a good article and excellent discussion on the jury service issue over on Kiwiblog. The system is broken it seems, with a paltry 15 of those called to service actually showing. There are many that complained that the jury service fee is pathetic, especially for those who run their own businesses and cannot …
Where does the NZ Government get money?
I am doing some work after the previous post on tax spend, and here are a few top line results so far. I want to end up with spreadsheet, as Rowan did a couple of years back, where you can enter your income and see the spend. However income tax is only one of several …
Telecom some ideas for your prepay recharge screen
This is Telecom’s prepay information screen. I’ve been looking at it a lot over the last two days as both my T Stick and iPad needed recharging. It was a frustrating experience, and the T-Stick just failed again yet the screen gives no useful information: Please – can someone redesign this? Here’s what I’d like …
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Show me the receipt please
This is a great idea – from 3rd Way and via npr. Taxpayers would receive a receipt for their tax detailing where there money was spent. A person earning $34,140 would get something like this (minus the red notes) And yes – it’s amazing that almost 10% of the tax is spent on military, that …
Lance Wiggs 