This year has been a roller-coaster ending on a high with a successful Audacious Challenge Awards Evening 19th September 2017 at the HUB, Otago Polytechnic.
Posted: Monday October 16, 2017
Semester 2 of the Audacious Challenge ran July - September and comprised business workshops and Business Coaching sessions, concluding with the students pitching to a Dragon’s Den. The Audacious Challenge Awards Evening brought together Dunedin's business and academic community and the student cohort.
Posted: Sunday October 15, 2017
Posted: Thursday September 14, 2017
A high caliber of women were the guest speakers for Workshop 3. Julie Curphey handled Branding, Bex Twemlow, Sales & Pitching and Sophie Barker, Competitor Analysis.
Posted: Wednesday August 16, 2017
The second workshop had Finance, Legal and Taxes as topics which were covered by Conrad Anderson, Bill Munro and David Ehlers respectively.
Posted: Wednesday August 9, 2017
A recap and introduction to the world's leading BMC
Posted: Friday August 4, 2017
The second term of Audacious kicked off with more than 65 students joining in for the Launch at the Hub on the 18th July 2017.
Posted: Tuesday July 25, 2017
While studying for a Master of Entrepreneurship, Logan realised in 2010 that his idea could become a viable business. The result: Highly Flammable...
Posted: Thursday July 20, 2017
When Logan is asked for one thing that describes his deepest passion; it is ‘enabling epic entrepreneurship. Logan defines epic entrepreneurship as combining passion, creativity, adventure & location independence to create incredible businesses.
Posted: Friday July 7, 2017
Ryan Everton won the Audacious 2012 Challenge with his good idea, but since then his reuse and recycle business has taken off here and overseas.
Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2017
PocketSmith began with the idea that a calendar and event-based approach would be a powerful paradigm for communicating and managing financial information.
Posted: Tuesday July 4, 2017
Education Perfect re-branded from Language Perfect at the end of 2013 and business has doubled every year.
Posted: Tuesday July 4, 2017
In 2011, Anna Guenther saw how Kickstarter, a US-based crowdfunding platform, helped fund projects that fell outside normal funding systems. And it's while studying for a Master of Entrepreneurship at Otago University, that she saw the opportunity to introduce New Zealand to a supportive and inclusive funding platform.
Posted: Tuesday July 4, 2017
What is the most exciting technology emerging in the energy sector?
Posted: Monday July 3, 2017
Kim won the first Audacious Challenge in 2006 with Medikidz - a business idea that went on to earn support from Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall, and has since gone global.
Posted: Friday June 30, 2017
So says Annabelle Molloy, whose babysitting service initially did not make the top 40 in the 2012 Challenge, then made it in to the top 15 proposals after she refined her pitch, successfully persuading the judges about her business idea.
Posted: Monday June 12, 2017
Paul Allen, who is moving on after five years as the Audacious coach, says if there’s one thing that business set-ups need to understand more than anything else, it’s to recognise what the potential customer needs.
Posted: Monday June 12, 2017
Sam Beattie and Henry Fitz-Gerald are keen for New Zealanders to get Sorted.
Posted: Tuesday December 20, 2016
Health and safety is an increasingly important issue for the building industry, in New Zealand and overseas, but construction workers need all the help they can get to manage their responsibilities.
Posted: Monday December 19, 2016