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Mashup 2016 has been and gone and what a time we’ve had! Held on 2nd and 3rd April, Mashup provided an opportunity for 60+ young people to give entrepreneurship a go, by taking an idea out of their head and developing it into a business powered by tech, in the space of 48 hours. In October last year, Venture Centre took over Mashup and its organisation and pledged to build on what had been before to develop an experience ‘mashing’ tech and startup business processes for senior school stude...

April 12, 2016

TEST YOUR BIG IDEA BEFORE YOU START

One of the most important processes we step people through at Venture Centre is Idea Validation. Now is your chance to learn from one of the world's experts at upcoming Validation Workshop with expert guest Peter Simon on February 2nd, 2016. Before you spend any time (or money) building your product, going through the rigorous process of making sure people will actually buy what you intend to sell greatly increases your chance of success. WNT Ventures, the Bay of Plenty’s own technology incuba...

November 12, 2015

OFFICE HOURS OFFERS BUSINESS COACHING IN TAURANGA

Congratulations. You're in business! Well done you're one of the people who are the backbone of New Zealand's economy. NZ Businesses with no employee’s (eg Sole Trader, or only one Working Director) makeup 69% of all NZ Businesses and have an average turnover/sales of $193,000 per year. Just goes to show your tenacity and inventiveness! But there is always room for improvement, right? And the 'number 8', 'I can do it myself' approach has a downside too. Who do you check-in with? Who do you tur...

November 3, 2015

READY TO TAKE ON TOMORROW’S CHALLENGES

The world of work is being significantly disrupted. Automation, globalisation and collaborative flexible work arrangements are transforming it at exponential speed. Work life is evolving to include a ‘portfolio’ of jobs, often at the same time. A large majority of jobs already require significant digital skills, and a set of skills that are transferable across different jobs.How do you equip young people to become job creators not just job seekers?How do you ensure your child is gaining skil...

September 15, 2015

STARTUP WEEKEND WINNER SEESPRAY LAUNCHES PRODUCT

In just six months Victoria Hodge, the entrepreneur who began her enterprising journey at Tauranga Startup Weekend 2014, has built a product and a business around her idea to help rural communities including growers and their neighbours to work together better. Having already secured the first customers Seespray now want to hear from other growers who spray their orchards, hate paperwork and data entry, and think notifying neighbours about spraying could be easier. Bay of Plenty technology ...

June 22, 2015

TAURANGA’S CHILDREN TO LEARN TO CODE

Term two of the 2015 school year delivers the opportunity to join one of three new clubs being set up for Tauranga’s children to learn to programme computers (write code). The clubs, which it is hoped, will be the first of many spread throughout Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty, will be run by volunteers in schools and community centres. The clubs are supported by a national network known as Code Club Aotearoa introduced to the Bay of Plenty community and co-ordinated locally by Venture Cen...

March 26, 2015

CODEBRITE - ‘BYTE-SIZE’ CODE WORKSHOPS

In December 2014 the team at Venture Centre took on a community event, promoted as a global movement called 'Hour of Code'.The website went up a week before the event. Only seven days later 67 people walked through the doors of Venture Centre's communications and technology space, Basestation, ready to learn to code. Little people as young as 6 and grown ups up to the age of 75 arrived to get hands-on help from communications and technology professionals who work and play at Basestation. Ba...

December 19, 2014

SHAUN HENDY - GET OFF THE GRASS - MAY 2014

Many more than the 100 people who confirmed their registration came together on Friday 9th May to get answers to the conudrum "Why do New Zealanders work harder, yet earn less. Professor Shaun Hendy, BSc(Hons) Massey, PhD Alberta, FRSNZ, winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication prize, discussed the implications of his research for New Zealand’s economy. ...

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