Event Hub  test.wp.newzealandinc.com was live at New Zealand’s Rocket Pitch?competition?organized by The Icehouse and Geeks on a Plane – access all of our coverage of the start-up showcase from the event hub including exclusive interviews, company profiles and more. Organized by 500 Startups, a startup incubator and investment fund led by celebrity entrepreneur and angel investor Dave McClure, Geeks on …

Global efforts to get a new deal to combat climate change are foundering because they are based on the competitive mindset of trade negotiations rather than collaborative problem-solving, says Green Party climate change spokesman Kennedy Graham. Speaking at a Victoria University-hosted briefing on the outcomes of the latest round of global climate change talks in Doha, Graham said trade and …

Hot Gossip around the China traps is that Pat English will be named the inaugural director of the NZ China Council. It was openly discussed at another of those many banquets to celebrate 40 years of official relations between China and NZ this week. Chinese businesspeople praised English who is NZ’s consul in Guangzhou as well as Trade Commissioner. law coursework …

Chief US Negotiator Barbara Weisel confronted charges that the TPP negotiations are not transparent during Wednesday’s TPP press conference. write my paper “We all have done as much as we can to meet with the stakeholders and this includes not just meetings at the round, but regularly in our own capitals to try to ensure that the agreement we have achieved responds …

Coming into the 15th negotiating round for TPP, attention was focused squarely on the two newest countries to join the negotiations – Canada & Mexico. Chief negotiator for New Zealand David Walker explained “We had two main objectives coming into this round – the first was to ensure the smooth integration of Canada and Mexico into the negotiation. We achieved …

test.wp.newzealandinc.com reporting live from NZ Rocket Pitch competition, presented by The Icehouse and Geeks on a Plane. Join the conversation – follow us on twitter @nzincltd From The Icehouse website: “This December fourteen high profile investors, entrepreneurs and executives will make their way from Silicon Valley to New Zealand to engage with the start-up scene down here. Among the fifteen geeks …

Winner – BNZ: Breaking the Rules Above: Chuffed – CEO of KlickEx, Ross Peat with his award. A new web-based foreign exchange service managed to sufficiently pique the judges’ interest, including that of Dave McClure – Director of Marketing for PayPal from 2001 to 2006. KlickEx aims to change the way foreign exchange transactions take place by providing market making …

Andrea Zurek Founding Partner XG Ventures test.wp.newzealandinc.com got the chance to catch up with Andrea to find out what she thought of the entrepreneurial space here in Godzone. “There’s a lot of diversity here in New Zealand,” Zurek said of her time spent here so far. The entrepreneurial landscape was so different to that of the United States according to …

Winner – No.8 Wire   Above: Founder of Outpost Central James Riddell with the Geeks. Outpost Central is a Penrose based New Zealand firm developing smart water meter technology. Their solution enables organizations to monitor their water and energy use whilst managing environmental and resource-based activities. The flagship product for Outpost Central is WASP, a smart water device the provides real-time access …

Winner – 100% Pure NZ Above: An ecstatic Shaun Tan with his trophy as the winner from stream 2.   Straight from winning the University of Auckland’s Spark $100k Entrepreneurs Challenge, EcoFibre was at it again on Tuesday evening winning their stream at the Geeks on a Plane rocket pitch competition. EcoFibre uses a recyclable alternative to carbon fibre, manufacturing …