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Business Is Boring — 395 episodes

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How free meal planning is changing food research

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The billion-dollar company that's just getting started

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From Aotearoa to the world: how Wai Mānuka is going global

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The AI tool that turns conversations into action

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Rowan Simpson on the right way to be wrong

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How AF Drinks is leading their space in the US

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How Polymath is reimagining maths class

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Ben Forman & Kat Lintott - From Wrestler to What’s Next

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How Pals became Pals

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How timber innovation can protect old growth forests

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The virtual CFOs with very real results

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The compostable cling wrap winning big in the US

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Changing the face of investment

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Why great operators can make for great venture capitalists

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How Keep the Change changes lives

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Doing better at business by doing better

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Why people leaders make great CEOs

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How to build a community of 10,000 marketers

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Creating an Extraordinary new category

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A banking challenger emerges

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From Aotea to the world: Tama Toki on energy, connection, and purpose

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Creating Humanistic AI

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Building smarter cities and ethical AI with Dr. Ayesha Khanna

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How to get the best of AI today

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Live from Spark Accelerate: Balancing innovation and efficiency for organisational success

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How Karma Drinks earns its name in Sierra Leone

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NZ tech’s favourite recruiter

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25 years of Nature Baby

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The old idea that could be the future for trades payments

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The biggest opportunity for startups? People!

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The Kiwi company making concrete change

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A new agency for a new world

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Innovating for the underserved accessibility market

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How Re-Leased powers 350,000 tenancies around the world

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Grinding away: how Megan Wyper went from employee to co-owner

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How Anihana made it in America

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Making period products more available through Ads on Pads

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How bugs can save the world

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The first approach to fitness training designed for women and the menstrual cycle

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How Hnry helped Australasia never think about tax again

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Has your workplace thought about menopause?

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What happened with Ārepa

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A billion is just the beginning

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Changing boating for the better

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Creating more Māori entrepreneurship pathways

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What we can learn from Silicon Valley VC

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How Taxi is getting the NZ economy moving

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Listen Now: episode one of Juggernaut – I Love You, Mr Lange

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The AI opportunity for Aotearoa

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How the design lead of Slack is building the future of work

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Future State: The maker of ‘That Sugar Film’ on the power of ideas to fight climate change

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Future State: Lessons on the power of AI, from someone who helped build it

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Future State: What does sustainability look like at IKEA scale?

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Future State: Idea to Impact – understanding circular business

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Introducing Behind the Story: If you love a dog, you must also love disposing of its sh*t

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The new Aotearoa lead of Australasia’s biggest VC firm

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Has the AR/VR moment arrived?

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David Yu: 2023 EY entrepreneur of the year with Aotearoa’s fastest growing company

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How Albert Cho went from IG influencer to Ponsonby restaurateur

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Improving the food system, one wonky box at a time

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The AI tools every business should already be using

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Designing a te ao Māori agency

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How to grow NZ Inc

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Redefining the menstrual experience with Endosoothe

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How Powrsuit is changing the face of leadership

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The company making sustainable practice fashionable

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Setting the right sustainability strategy for your business

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The VC firm that raised like a founder

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The solvable problem affecting up to one in three women

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The legend behind Aotearoa's favourite brands

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Summer reissue: Meet the brain behind Xero and Upstock

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Summer reissue: Fixing your finances with the Māori Millionaire

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Summer reissue: The app making it easier to share your Dosh

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The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2023

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Goldie wants to help you own your own slice of luxury

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Why Unyoked thinks we should disconnect

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How can you change the world at scale?

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Meet one of the Champions of the Earth

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Critical's solution to plastic-packed landfills

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The zero-alcohol beer hero

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Reimagining customer testing with Stickybeak

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How Ministry of Awesome gives hope to start-ups

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OpenStar's nuclear solution to solve clean energy

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Squirrel Mortgages is revolutionising the mortgage broker

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Anna Mowbray is creating Tinder for finding jobs

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Slice is bringing home ownership back within reach

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Mark Adams from Vice on how brands can reinvent themselves

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How Almighty grew into an international success

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How Frankie manages property management

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How Indigital is decolonising digital spaces

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OnBoard: Improving diversity in startup boards

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Kate Sylvester is celebrating 30 years in fashion

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Woolchemy's answer to plastic-filled nappies

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Meet the team behind the 2022 NZ House of the Year

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What the past tells us about the future of AI

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Derek Handley's new non-bank bank for aspiring homeowners

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Meet the brain behind Xero and Upstock

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Angel Food is bringing vegan cheese to the mainstream

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Danielle Krettek on bringing soul to Google's AI

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Sam Conniff's journey to embracing uncertainty

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Fixing your finances with the Māori Millionaire

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Dr. Johnson Witehira's mission for more Māori design

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Dennisson Techologies' quest for universal mobility

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Is Cleanery the future of sustainable home care?

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Simon Moore on his game-changing golf club

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Is Ron Park NZ's mussel king?

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How EatKinda got vegan ice-cream into Hell Pizza

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How Fibre Fale are indigenising the tech space

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Holiday Records is bringing back local vinyl

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Clem Devine on the rise of the intrepreneur

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How Allbirds made the first zero carbon shoe

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Why Grater Goods is using equity crowdfunding to expand

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How Daisy Lab is designing a dairy-free future

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How Dispute Buddy makes going to court easier

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Matū is making VC investing accessible

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Solid Oral Care is using crowdfunding to launch their new lab

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Money Sweetspot is changing the finance industry for good

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The app making it easier to share your Dosh

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How Garage Project pioneered the craft beer boom

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What is New Zealand's brand?

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The food hero saving Perfectly Imperfect produce

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The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2022

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Creating a community from clothes

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Finding practical solutions to help the unhoused

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It’s time we talked about paint

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A circular, more sustainable business model

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How managing Shapeshifter led to more Good Sh*t

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Could Mānuka oil become bigger than the honey?

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Abel Odor is disrupting the fragrance industry

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Redefining the industrial internet of things

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Simplicity's Sam Stubbs wants to improve our financial literacy

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Making sustainable business the norm with Rachel Brown

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Marking 20 years of Semi Permanent

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Matta: The recycling pioneer turning health hazards into safety equipment

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Dolly Mumma: Helping NZ build a bridge past butter chicken

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Nuro: The NZ-led answer to self driving vehicles

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AgriSea: the wonders of NZ seaweed innovation

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Baina: The NZ contemporary towel company taking over the world

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Orah offers schools a student wellbeing solution

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How to improve disabled inclusion in the workforce

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Halter cow collars are changing the future of farming

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Going Global: With Banqer's Kendall Flutey

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The new apprenticeship for NZ business people

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Meet Vince, NZ’s meat-free vegetable mince

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Going Global: With Kami co-founder Alliv Samson

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Yu Mei is a luxury brand where everyone is welcome

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How Girls Get Off got going

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Going Global: With SYSCA CEO Lucy Blakiston

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The Ironclad Pan Company's 100-year guarantee

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Astrix Astronautics is putting solar panels in space

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Going Global: With Rachel Taulelei, Oho co-founder

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How true love and tragedy led Trow Group to business success

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Madison Recruitment’s Marisa Fong on what makes a great leader

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Going Global: With fashion icon, Karen Walker

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Roti Bros want to take their curry-inspired pies to the world

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How Augusto is blurring lines beyond being just an agency

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Going Global: With Laura Bell, SafeStack Academy

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Bringing the best of Australia’s high-growth companies to NZ

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Girls that Invest: Simran Kaur on changing the face of investment

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What's your mental health plan? (with Sir John Kirwan)

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Easy Crypto's build to a billion in sales

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Special Group's hard mahi and manifested success

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NewFish is reimagining the future of NZ fishing

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Dotterel is taking NZ IP to the world

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Michele Wilson on the sacred kaupapa of AWWA

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Greg Denton on creating accessible pathways into the tech world

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Method's Sam Ramlu talks the secrets to metaverse success

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Brooke Roberts on the rise of Sharesies

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Do you have oat milk?

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The electrician behind 20% of NZ’s new solar installations

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The former Apple leader helping NZ companies go global

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The property developer helping build better communities

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The NZ startup changing batteries for the better

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The local label pioneering carbon positive fashion

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The importance of employee experience

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Theresa Gattung on dealing with burnout in business

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A new way for startups to raise capital

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How Socialites stays on top of the social media game

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How NZ joined the space club, with Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck

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How Multitudes is helping businesses measure and improve team culture

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Shotgun’s ride from mountain biking brainwave to global business

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How to sell a fast growing company, and other tips from an advertising entrepreneur

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What Woop does differently with their food boxes

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The ticketing app using booking fees for good

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Making wearable tech for astronauts, Olympic athletes and everybody

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The business and politics of bread

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How Rush built the NZ COVID Tracer app in a hurry

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Compostic's plan to replace plastic cling wrap

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The Seinfeld-inspired startup simplifying flower buying

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The NZ company working on a new Covid-19 vaccine

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The social enterprise helping create more social enterprises

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Fewer than 5% of tradies are women – here’s where to find them

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Fix & Fogg is taking NZ nut butters to the world

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The NZ non-profit helping prisoners learn to code

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The NZ platform where you can rent just about anything

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Why ZeroJet wants to electrify small boat motors

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The NZ entrepreneur solving some big toilet problems

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The Christchurch mum getting people moving in the morning

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How LPL became Australasia’s biggest esports broadcaster

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How do you become CEO of one of NZ’s biggest insurers?

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How The Good Registry is helping give better gifts

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The New Zealander helping drive TikTok’s massive growth

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How All Good is changing the banana game, again

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Summer reissue: Stacy Gregg, author

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Summer reissue: Scottie Chapman from Spring Sheep Milk Co.

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Summer reissue: Rachel Taulelei from Kono

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The chief economist who made himself redundant and started a newsletter

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The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2020

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The Australian venture capitalist with $60m for backing NZ companies

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How See-LEVEL is using VR to counter seasickness

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How Foodprint is helping reduce food waste by bringing the bargains

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How IMAGR plans to eliminate checkout queues

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Introducing Coming Home: Like nothing we've ever seen before

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How AF Drinks is helping lift the non-alcoholic beverage game

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How Again Again is making takeaway coffee better for the environment

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How Karangahape Road became an international music software hub

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How Fuel50 is changing HR software to fit the new ways we work

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How Kami is de-stressing the digital learning experience for millions worldwide

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Masterchef’s Josh Emett is opening his first restaurant of his own

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How to launch a new magazine in the time of coronavirus

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The New Zealand app helping predict depression and anxiety in the workforce

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How Formus Labs is helping take the guesswork out of joint replacement surgery

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How Zincovery is using the $100,000 C-Prize to clean up galvanised steel

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How Stacy Gregg went from fashion journalist to bestselling children's book author

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Why new fashion website Ensemble just launched in the middle of a pandemic

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How to drink – and sell – a New Zealand wine

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The Dunedin company growing NZ's high-tech manufacturing sector

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Mitchell Pham's incredible journey from Vietnam to NZ and back again with Augen Software Group

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Amelia Gain from Preno is reimagining the future of hotel bookings

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The tech legend who launched Windows 95 into NZ who's now making digital humans

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The company making New Zealand sheep milk a thing

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Lovina McMurchy of Movac on getting wifi into Starbucks and shopping lists on Alexa

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Rob Teina from Supreme Plumbing

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Simon Cooke and Ryan Carville from Froth Technologies

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Emma Lewisham Skincare

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Jacob Kohn and Gaetano Dedual from Futurity

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Rachel Taulelei from Kono

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Business advisor David Bell

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Emily Miller-Sharma from Ruby

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Asantha Wijeyeratne from PaySauce

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Alice Lines and Nicholas Burrowes from Homestyle magazine

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Mel Lewis from Ultrella

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Matthew Chapman from Chapman CG

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Pat MacFie from Indigo

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Kristin Mead from Regional Business Partners Network

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Michelle Dickonson's new online learning platform

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Zac De Silva from Business Changing and Nurture Change

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Florence and Chloe Van Dyke from Chia Sisters

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Grace Stratton from All is for All

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Andrea Watson from Sparrows and Simon Yarrow from Callaghan Innovation

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Pranav Chopra from Nemi Teas

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Emma Ogilvie and Nick Landsman from Bar Céleste

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Jimmy Hayes from Minaal

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Business is Boring with Morris Pita from EmergencyQ

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Business is Boring with Greg Brebner from Blunt Umbrellas

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Business is Boring with Bridie Picot from Wrappy and Thing Industries

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Business is Boring with Mike Taylor

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Business is Boring with Bruce Turner and Thomas Rowe from Urbanaut

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Business is Boring with Robyn McLean from The Hello Cup

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Business is Boring With Campbell Ellison from Callaghan & Alexandra Allan from FoodBowl

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Business is Boring Jodie Fox from Shoes of Prey

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Business is Boring with Jeff Xu and Ollie McDermott from Micropod

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Business is Boring with Dr Brian Ward from Aroa

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Business is Boring with Jade Tang-Taylor and Anna Guenther from Cheese Cartel

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Business is Boring with Victoria Carter from Cityhop

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Business is Boring with Valentin Ozich from I Love Ugly

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Business is Boring with James Bartle from Outland Denim

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Business is Boring with PredictHQ CEO Cambell Brown

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Business is Boring with Kiri Nathan from Māori-inspired fashion brand Kiri Nathan

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Business is Boring with Brianne West from Ethique

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Business is Boring with Shaun Edlin from Dotterel and Richard Quin from Callaghan Innovation

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Business is Boring with Ian Taylor from Animation Research Limited

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Business is Boring with Tim Brown from AllBirds

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Business is Boring with Erik Zydervelt from Mevo

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Business is Boring with Hamish Pinkham from R&V

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Business is Boring with Paris Mitchell Temple and Georgia Cherrie

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Business is Boring with Michael Allpress from Allpress Espresso

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Business is Boring with Dr Peter Surman and Simone Hollier from Douglas Pharmaceuticals

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Business is Boring with Nick Hyland and Jacksen Love from Flamingo Scooters

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Business is Boring with Jesse Armstrong from Culture Lens

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Meet the big cheese from the Clevedon Buffalo Company

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Business is Boring with Dr Shaun Holt

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How a career bringing goods out of China brought about Container Door

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The AI chatbot app helping people get the mental health services they need

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Meet one of the Australian-based Venture Capitalists investing in local businesses

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Business is Boring with Kate Gwilliam from Zeddy

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Business is Boring: Sue Dunmore

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Business is Boring : Andrew Childs

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Techweek special- celebrating Māori Innovation and 2019's Tech trends

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How 5 years of R&D proved a local skincare company had a product that actually works

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Manawa Udy on how co-working can tap into South Auckland's potential

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How creating more connections can help NZ Scale-Up

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Business is Boring with Stephanie Post and Hayley White from Auckland Art Fair

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Business is Boring with Dan Mclaughlin and Mark Neal from Scapegrace

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Business is boring with Grant Straker from Straker Translations

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Business is Boring: Jenny Morel on 20 years in the tech industry

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Business is boring: John Macaskill-Smith

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Business is Boring: Dr Will Barker and Imche Fouri from Level 2 and Mint Innovation

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Business is Boring: Asuwere with Sam and Noah Hickey

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Business is Boring: Elisha Watson

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Business is Boring: Angus Brown from Arepa

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Business is boring: Emily Heazlewood

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Business is boring: Hikurangi Cannabis Company

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Business is boring: Mahmood Hikmet

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Mark Kneebone creating safer spaces within festivals

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Native Rituals

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The entrepreneur empowering Māori and pacific business

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The team getting kiwis to invest

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The kiwi leading the digital move of law firms

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The genius behind the kiwi films we have all heard of

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The Business Chat: The nature of reality and other weighty matters

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The Kiwi bringing software as a service into the world

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Veronica Harwood-Stevenson and native bee bioplastic

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Phil Thomson and his team are bringing down crime and making the community a safer place

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Organic alternative and foster the movement with Helen Robinson

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Nat Cheshire and a special start to Auckland City

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Creating great teams with Sandy Mamoli

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Steven Renata, CEO of Kiwa Digital

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The Business Chat: Suffrage 125, Fonterra, and wedding magazines

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Telling Pasifika stories in a true Pasifika voice

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Together Journal is a celebration of love and modern wedding culture

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Murray Bevan on growing some of New Zealand's biggest fashion brands

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The Social Club is helping social media influencers take over the advertising world

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Mike Carden talks SaaS and his life after Sonar6

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The Business Chat: Elon Musk, Māori innovation, and the worth of a university degree

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Kōkiri is an accelerator helping Māori entrepreneurs find their feet

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Iyia Liu on predicting trends and how Kylie Jenner helped her business

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Frances Valintine is working to get society ready for a digital future

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Sam Stuchbury is making sure people take Gen-Z seriously

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SwipedOn is streamlining visitor management from super yachts to petrol stations

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Sunfed foods is making meat-free meat an option for everyone

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The Business Chat: Anatomically correct cow models, self-flying planes, and single use plastic

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Bridgit Hawkins is helping farmers save water and money

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Tim Lightbourne of Invivo wine talks branding, taking risks, and Graham Norton

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How Dexibit is revolutionising museums and galleries using big data solutions

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Vaughan Rowsell of Vend has brought Point of Sale software into the 21st century

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The Business Chat: Budget 2018, Techweek, and Ethical Dairying

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Natalie Robinson of Mum's Garage helps guide founders from dream to reality

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Glen Herud founded Happy Cow Milk to make a difference in the dairy industry

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Shaveer Mirpuri is creating commercial ventures using AI.

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The Business Chat with Simon Pound, Maria Slade, and Duncan Greive

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Matt Weavers is making e-bikes more affordable

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Jennifer Rutherford of the Hi-Tech Trust on diversifying the tech industry

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Bird on a Wire takes free range chicken and healthy salads to the people

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How one seed potato grew into a business for Jade Temepara

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How crowdfunding website Press Patron is helping to create quality journalism

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Miriana Lowrie is making trade credit a simple, paperless process

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Dr Sam Hazeldine: "You've got to be hungry".

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Talking commentary with Spalk co-founder Ben Reynolds

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Flossie's female lead: Jenene Crossan is solving two problems in one app

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An underground kitchen with a sky-high target

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WeCompost is keeping tons of waste out of landfill

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A lawyer, writer and mother on why mothers are as ambitious as anyone

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Nick Shewring, co-founder of co-working company 'BizDojo,' is opening the conversation around mental health in entrepreneurship.

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Maru Nihoniho on taking Aotearoa's game dev industry to the world

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Think start-ups are only run by single guys and their friends? Meet Dr Alyona Medelyan

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Why hiring tangata whenua should be a priority for all businesses

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What the tech sector can learn from pop culture fandoms

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She's flying with NASA and fighting Gwyneth Paltrow's fake science at 18

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The Rowan Simpson founder-centric approach to being a company director

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The 22 year old entrepreneur on why he disrupted his successful business

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How Lewis Road Creamery made gold from chocolate milk

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BIB Repeat: TV Producer Bailey Mackey on being in the middle of a global bidding war

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Scott Blanks on 20 years of comedy at The Classic

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Theresa Gattung on Telecom, surviving public scrutiny and investing in women innovators

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Always be ready to sell: Mark Hurley on selling to an $11 billion agency

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Cloud technology is the future and the future is now

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Deanna Yang on why Moustache Milk & Cookie bar is now a completely different business

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Craig Cotton on leading Charlie's into teenage-hood and remembering to keep family involved

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The man who produced Evil Dead and Zena on the art of producing

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If you think your organisation doesn't have a gender pay gap, you're probably wrong

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Cindy Gallop on the social sex revolution and going as big as YouTube

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The news business as a platform: The new Fairfax CEO on Stuff, paywalls and podcasts

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The cure to cancer may be closer than we think, all thanks to a kiwi invention.

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Is working 9 to 5 really that necessary?

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Diversity doesn't just mean straight white women: Mai Chen on the growing need for Asian leaders in NZ businesses

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How Burger Burger are giving hospo staff the respect they deserve

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Joan Withers on employing diversity without enforcing quotas

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How Sharesies is making investment portfolios for everyone, not just the rich

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A guide to ethically importing bananas with Karma Cola's Chris Harrison

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The angel investor breakdown: do you really need millions of dollars?

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Business is Boring replay: Karen Walker

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Jamie Ford of Foresight Learning on what New Zealanders need to learn from the Australians

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Could New Zealand's future lie with luxury goods?

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Bill Reichert of Garage Ventures calls for the scrappy standout in the entrepreneur crowd

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Sue De Bievre of Beany on the cloud creating flexibility for working mothers

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Holly Cardew of Pixc on what's to be gained from working within Silicon Valley

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The AirBnB of parks: Parkable and Campable are turning your empty spaces into a business

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Techweek Special: Patrick McVeigh delivers all your Techweek'17 essentials

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Christina Bellis and Lani Evans are turning an IRD subsidy into a force for good

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Adàn Tijerina of Almighty Juices on why immigrants make ideal entrepreneurs

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Lisa King of Eat My Lunch on dealing with massive growth and making 1400 lunches EVERY DAY

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My Food Bag co-CEO Cecilia Robinson on why you have to destroy your own market share

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Vic Crone on Xero, her Auckland Mayoralty bid and what's next for Callaghan Innovation

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Lance Wiggs on how TradeMe was worth even more than its $750m sale price