Find out how one founder uses Instagram to carry out customer validation to make sure she gives her customers what they really want.

Instant coffee is a huge part of our New Zealand coffee story, but few people know that this is all thanks to Invercargill’s David Strang and his genius creation in 1889 for soluble coffee powder.

Ethan started Backlanz in 2018. A keen hunter with a passion for designing his own product Ethan developed the detachable hunting bipod, lightweight and easy-to-use.

There’s no other place quite like the startup journey. A place of excitement, long hours, big highs, sweat and sometimes the odd tear.

In the first video in our Start Me Up series, Tim Lindsay from AWS Legal talks about commercial leases and what you’ll want to consider before signing on the dotted line.

How to draw toast. Or, how to create a customer journey. Storyboarding a Customer Journey is the process of looking at the end-to-end series of events that make up the entire story of before your product/service, using your product/service, and after. It helps understand where there are gaps, what can be changed, and where everything goes pear-shaped.

We hosted an epic lineup of marketing gurus for our latest Morning Mahi. A huge thank you to Carla from Market South, Darren from Fully Charged Media in Queenstown, Conrad from The Custom Bubble, and COIN South's Chief Activator, Lou.

Hot off the press, the government has announced a small interest-free loan scheme. Same criteria as the wage subsidy. 5-year loan of up to $100k | Each business can get $10k plus $1,800 per FTE employee | Applies to small businesses (up to 50 employees).

COIN South collaborated with Callaghan Innovation and a dozen startup centres and networks nationwide to pull off New Zealand’s largest collaborative online startup event. Over 950 participants joined in #HacktheCrisisNZ, a 48-hour challenge hosted online during for a weekend in lockdown.

Cam is busy with not one, but two startup ideas. He left his full time job last year to concentrate on developing Souper Natural, a mobile soup business and Squad, an online group gift platform.

It is vital that everyone knows we are still under Alert Level 4, and all Alert Level 4 restrictions remain in place. For moving to level 3 on the morning of Tuesday the 28th April, this is what you need to know.

Maybe you’ve been meaning to do it for a while, or maybe your customers never imagined not coming into your bricks and mortar store. But if you’re not online, today is the day.

There are three key spaces to get right online: Google, social media and your website.