Our Stories.
Stories on innovation, collaboration and resources to build and grow your business in the south.
Using your head and your heart.
Our friends at Angel Association New Zealand have shared some insightful suggestions for both founders and investors to consider at this time.
Wage Subsidy + Leave FAQs
FAQs compiled from Findex, Great South, Business NZ and Employment lawyer Susan Hornsby-Geluk.
Isolation driving innovation
Winston Churchill is credited with first saying, “never let a crisis go to waste.” And for many innovators and entrepreneurs across the country, they’ve taken that to heart. Here’s COIN South’s roundup of the amazing things coming out of this isolation.
Reframing your business: COIN Canvas tutorial
Chief Activator of COIN South, hosted a COIN Canvas: Covid Edition webinar during the lockdown, and these are the notes. Slides and the full (hour long) webinar linked in the post.
Watch This: Webinars you may have missed
Now that the world has turned to Zoom and Chromecast, we can rewatch some excellent content. Here’s a mix of business advice, updates and how to get through COVID-19
Working Online: More than Zoom.
Working from home means sharing a workplace with tiny coworkers, making do with dining chairs and escaping to the bedroom or garden shed for confidential conversations. Here are some things that can help.
The questions you need to be asking.
The COVID-19 virus will change the way we travel, shop and work for the foreseeable future. To answer: what’s going to happen to my business? you need to break it down into much smaller, more manageable questions, and challenge every assumption about your business.
Founder Journeys: Liv Cochrane and Benji Biswas
Liv fills us in on juggling a start up with family life, having endless ideas, and working with partner Benji on their business Crunchy, an urban microgreen farm based in Invercargill.
In pursuit of the perfect idea
Chief Activator of COIN South, Louise Evans writes about where you can find the perfect idea. Or not.