Hybrid sales and fleet projections NZ, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. This is a very rough estimate, and there are plenty of ways it can be improved. In 2011 we saw under 1000 NZ new hybrid car registrations, out of a total of 64,000. That’s a small share of the total car imports of 150,000, with …
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Is New Zealand’s Research and Development really that low?
The August MBIE Building Innovation report is out – it’s worth a read, and I do like the progress report at the end. It is, of course, flawed, but it’s good to see it. The report uses a chart showing how low New Zealand’s research and development spend is as a share of the economy. …
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Ten tips for better pitching
Pitching to a prospective client where you have a light or no brief should be easy, but it seems that in practise it is remarkably difficult. The client wants to understand what it would be like working with your company, and what the quality of the output will be. You want to understand the same, …
Ride on Captain, Ride on
Today we say farewell to Bryan Wyness, The Captain to his mates. Rest in Peace.
A response to Computerworld
I guess there was a tough deadline, but the editor wrote her editorial for Computerworld about NetHui at perhaps the worst time last Wednesday. It strikes me that she did so essentially exactly week ago from when I am writing this, and that she may well have just rectified what came across as an unfortunately …
Measure then fix – why 107 academics are wrong
A group of academics signed off on a letter against school league tables. The stated logic may work in an academic research setting but is inappropriate to apply to the real world. We should instead publish the measurements, improve the measurements and their context over time and, most importantly, focus energy and resources on understanding …
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Starter notes for #NetHui – Business Ecosystem Session
I’m at NetHui at the moment, and about to facilitate a session on business ecosystem in NZ. In the interests of speeding the introduction here are the starter notes and questions. Session description New Zealand’s start-up ecosystem continues to develop. In the last year we saw some exits, good funding rounds with local and overseas …
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Powerkiwi is the thirteenth largest power company in NZ*
Snooping around a bit after the previous post, I came across more data on the Electricity Authority’s website. They track the size of the retail market by the number of Installation Control Points (ICPs) attributed to each retailer. Powershop is is a very healthy 7th placed retailer. However, while Powershop is the attributed owner of …
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More data on our wonderful energy system
The MED have produced a Energy Data File for 2o12. It seems to be on a new website for energy facts – though just because I have not seen it before does not mean it is new. Here;s the starting infographic, which I unfortunately found unreadable. While it’s nice to see them try an infographic, …
Auckland from afar
A photo of Auckland from the Waitakeres today. A bit tweaked.
There is no depression in New Zealand
I partially wrote this during last Sunday’s Voyage NZ show. I didn’t really get to finish it, but what the heck. Congratulations to the Fabian Society, Scoop and PublicAddress for putting on the Voyage NZ. However it was mostly about looking at the downside. None of this is new. In fact it echoes what was …
Brass Monkey 2012
Some pictures from this year’s Brass Monkey. We were a little early for the snow this year, and the weather was basically perfect. This one of me was taken by Mike Nash: Ruapehu – on the way South from Auckland. Kapiti – from Waikanae Beach One of the entertaining Interislander passengers. We always seem to …
IPOing in NZ – notes from the NZX and Xero presentation
The NZX and Xero, along with Cameron partners and Bell Gully held a “Masterclass” on IPOing in NZ yesterday. Xero CEO Rod Drury wears two hats, as he is also a director of the NZX, but they were also represented by Tim Bennett, the new CEO and Andrew Harmos the chair. Ross Christie from Cameron …
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Buyers and Sellers guide to Web Design and Development firms
A few weeks ago I requested visits to Auckland Web design and development firms, receiving a healthy range of responses. I didn’t get to visit everyone, but thanks to everyone who replied, and to those who suffer my visit. I managed to get to, in the self-imposed two-week deadline, 11 companies: 3Bit, Marker Studio, OnFire, Pitch, TheWebCompany, …
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Linked-in spam
linked in spam, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I increasingly don’t understand the purpose of Linked-In. They were a nice way of connecting to business contacts, but are and will always be a lousy way of doing anything else. As they add ‘friend’ updates, news and so forth the real messages (which is who doing what) …
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