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23 Apr Posted by kari.petroschmidt Posted on 23 – Apr – 2012
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt So we had our kick-off on Tuesday night! Here’s some commentary… Initially I was unsure of Professor Michael Bowers, ‘The Entrepreneurial Professor’ (I think we’re always a bit wary of ‘the academic perspective’ when it comes to such practical matters as starting-up). But the Professor raised some interesting points. I particularly liked his…
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30 Apr Posted by kari.petroschmidt At the launch event we featured a number of speakers who are heavy on sales. Scott Cardwell (pictured above) naturally placed a lot of emphasis on this in his role as the Marketing Manager for Language Perfect. So too, Julian Van Mellearts and Sheryl McPhearson essentially sell products in their…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt At the Audacious business competition launch on Tuesday, everyone agreed – Dunedin needs more businesses if we want to keep young, talented graduates from flying off to brighter prospects in Wellington, Auckland, or overseas. The University of Otago is aware of the problem, and has thrown its weight behind the Centre for…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt People don’t typically conceive of starting up as a craft or Art. Writing, yes. Design, yup. Fine Arts, of course. But starting a business is in the realms of dry, dull management. And true, starting up does involve some grind work. Like just about anything. But it also provides you with an…
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Got a business idea? Then be audacious. Business ideas for this year’s Audacious Challenge close at 5pm next Monday. Audacious started five years ago as a joint initiative by the Dunedin City Council, University of Otago School of Business and Otago Polytechnic to encourage tertiary students to pitch business ideas. It is now sponsored by the University…
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17 May Posted by kari.petroschmidt So you can find The Story of Stuff here. What I love about this video is that it really makes you think about all your shit. Where it comes from, the value you invest in it and the implications your consumption has on the rest of the world. Here’s some sound-bites. …
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt Such is the phrase whispered by the Bokonists in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, “whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.” I quite like this articulation. Yet of course, most of us do not conceptualise the word ‘busy’ as connoting mystery, complexity, the convoluted…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt ON SUSTAINABILITY (UGH) I know. You don’t want to hear the word ‘sustainability’ ever again. But bear with me. Let’s start with an ostensibly basic question, what does the word actually mean? And, by implication, how are we to conceive of the environment? It has, of course, been a topic of much…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt “THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IMPERATIVE” I wrote about the difference between ‘sustainability’ and ‘thriving’ in a previous blog post. Now, this transition to thriving involves an additional challenge to what Stefan Collini writes has now become a self-evident and indisputable truth in our society; economic growth. Collini writes, “Since perhaps the 1970s, certainly…
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1. $3 DINNER SCHEME Francisco Hernandez 2. A PUBLICTRANSPORT NETWORK – QUEENSTOWN Evan Bloomfield 3. ARE YOU LINKED IN? Laura Judge 4. ATTICUS Kendall Flutey & Jenny Yun 5. BLACK CAT EARLY LEARNING Fabienne Le Comte, Rachel Kaspers & Libby Neale 6. CARRI-CELL Maria Brett 7. CATCH22 Kirk Feather 8. DEMI DUO Demi Keys 9. DESKIT Omri Moyal 10. EASY SQUEEZY Sam Reynolds 11. FACE-TO-FACE Ceire Hopley & Guy…
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16 Jul Posted by kari.petroschmidt I think a lot of us experience this anxiety surrounding the end of our University careers and what we should become. All these titles – ‘designer’, ‘banker’, ‘director’, ‘writer’, ‘artist’, ‘entrepreneur’. I’m beginning to wonder whether we’re approaching it in the wrong way. We’re thinking in boxes. University shouldn’t just…