Business Is Boring

How The Good Registry is helping give better gifts

03 Feb 2021

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

The New Zealander helping drive TikTok’s massive growth

27 Jan 2021

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How All Good is changing the banana game, again

20 Jan 2021

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Summer reissue: Stacy Gregg, author

13 Jan 2021

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Business Is Boring is taking a break over the summer holidays. We'll be back in the new year, but until then we're we're republishing some of our favo...

Summer reissue: Scottie Chapman from Spring Sheep Milk Co.

06 Jan 2021

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Business Is Boring is taking a break over the summer holidays. We'll be back in the new year, but until then we're we're republishing some of our favo...

Summer reissue: Rachel Taulelei from Kono

30 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Business Is Boring is taking a break over the summer holidays. We'll be back in the new year, but until then we're we're republishing some of our favo...

The chief economist who made himself redundant and started a newsletter

23 Dec 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2020

21 Dec 2020

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Pour yourself some eggnog and join the hosts of The Spinoff’s podcast network for our annual Superpod round up of the year that was. Representing Go...

The Australian venture capitalist with $60m for backing NZ companies

16 Dec 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How See-LEVEL is using VR to counter seasickness

10 Dec 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How Foodprint is helping reduce food waste by bringing the bargains

02 Dec 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How IMAGR plans to eliminate checkout queues

25 Nov 2020

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You’ve probably stood in a supermarket queue and thought you could be spending your short time on this earth more productively. That’s what happen...

Introducing Coming Home: Like nothing we've ever seen before

22 Nov 2020

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This is episode one of Coming Home, a new five-part podcast series from The Spinoff podcast network, in partnership with Kiwibank. We're sharing it wi...

How AF Drinks is helping lift the non-alcoholic beverage game

18 Nov 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How Again Again is making takeaway coffee better for the environment

11 Nov 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How Karangahape Road became an international music software hub

04 Nov 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How Fuel50 is changing HR software to fit the new ways we work

28 Oct 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How Kami is de-stressing the digital learning experience for millions worldwide

21 Oct 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Masterchef’s Josh Emett is opening his first restaurant of his own

14 Oct 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How to launch a new magazine in the time of coronavirus

30 Sep 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

The New Zealand app helping predict depression and anxiety in the workforce

23 Sep 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How Formus Labs is helping take the guesswork out of joint replacement surgery

16 Sep 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How Zincovery is using the $100,000 C-Prize to clean up galvanised steel

09 Sep 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How Stacy Gregg went from fashion journalist to bestselling children's book author

02 Sep 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Why new fashion website Ensemble just launched in the middle of a pandemic

26 Aug 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How to drink – and sell – a New Zealand wine

19 Aug 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

The Dunedin company growing NZ's high-tech manufacturing sector

12 Aug 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Mitchell Pham's incredible journey from Vietnam to NZ and back again with Augen Software Group

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Amelia Gain from Preno is reimagining the future of hotel bookings

29 Jul 2020

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Covid-19 has changed the world for a lot of businesses, and one of the hardest hit sectors has been tourist accommodation. New Zealand is a bit lucky ...

The tech legend who launched Windows 95 into NZ who's now making digital humans

23 Jul 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

The company making New Zealand sheep milk a thing

16 Jul 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Lovina McMurchy of Movac on getting wifi into Starbucks and shopping lists on Alexa

08 Jul 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Rob Teina from Supreme Plumbing

02 Jul 2020

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Rob Teina from Supreme Plumbing in Auckland has worked out the formula to keep people interested in his business, growing an audience of over 4,000 on...

Simon Cooke and Ryan Carville from Froth Technologies

25 Jun 2020

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Simon Cooke and Ryan Carville are the founders of brewers yeast company Froth Technologies. Until very recently, even in the booming local craft brewi...

Emma Lewisham Skincare

17 Jun 2020

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Emma Lewisham is the founder of a skincare brand selling products to address the effects of sun on skin pigment. She's also launching a new initiative...

Jacob Kohn and Gaetano Dedual from Futurity

11 Jun 2020

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Jacob Kohn and Dr Gaetano Dedual are the co-founders of Futurity, who are in the process of bringing a bio-refinery to Tairāwhiti Gisborne, that woul...

Rachel Taulelei from Kono

04 Jun 2020

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Rachel Taulelei is the CEO of Kono, a whānau-owned Māori food and beverage business selling food, wine and produce brands all around the globe. Befo...

Business advisor David Bell

28 May 2020

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David Bell is an investor and business advisor. As a professor at US university Wharton, he taught many successful business founders and innovators. H...

Emily Miller-Sharma from Ruby

14 May 2020

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Emily Miller-Sharma is the general manager at Ruby. She's one of the driving forces behind Mindful NZ, an industry body bringing together local produc...

Asantha Wijeyeratne from PaySauce

07 May 2020

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Asantha Wijeyeratne is the CEO of PaySauce. Since coming to New Zealand in 1988 as a young accountant, he has built multiple million-dollar businesses...

Alice Lines and Nicholas Burrowes from Homestyle magazine

30 Apr 2020

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Alice Lines and Nicholas Burrowes publish Homestyle magazine, and Nicholas is also chairman of the Magazine Publishers Association. On this episode we...

Mel Lewis from Ultrella

23 Apr 2020

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Mel Lewis is the founder of Ultrella. Natural deodorant hasn’t always had the best image. Everyone probably knows someone they can smell at five pac...

Matthew Chapman from Chapman CG

15 Apr 2020

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Matthew Chapman is the founder of HR search company ChapmanCG. He has grown his business to the point that it’s attracted significant investment fro...

Pat MacFie from Indigo

09 Apr 2020

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Pat MacFie is one of the founders of local agency Indigo and one of the driving forces behind Manaaki.io, a platform that helps give support to local ...

Kristin Mead from Regional Business Partners Network

02 Apr 2020

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Business owners around the country will have been watching to see what the government is doing to help with the massive disruption caused by Covid-19....

Michelle Dickonson's new online learning platform

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Dickinson is well known as Nanogirl, her science communicating, experiment making, science cookbook authoring alter-ego. With a PhD in engine...

Zac De Silva from Business Changing and Nurture Change

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Zac De Silva is one of the top rated business coaches in the world. His background is in accountancy, and he was CFO of Flight Centre at the age of 2...

Florence and Chloe Van Dyke from Chia Sisters

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chia Sisters is award winning for its nutrition and commitment to sustainability. Its founders have been lauded on the Forbes Asia 30 under 30 list, n...

Grace Stratton from All is for All

04 Mar 2020

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All is for All came to many people’s attention with its trailblazing fashion shoots using diverse models. It’s continued to grow into an advocacy ...

Andrea Watson from Sparrows and Simon Yarrow from Callaghan Innovation

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this month Asia Pacific agritech conference evoke AG hosted 65 Kiwi delegates in Melbourne, and among the Kiwi companies represented was Sparr...

Pranav Chopra from Nemi Teas

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nemi Teas creates employment opportunities right across their business, with the first steps being running chai stalls at festivals and markets. They...

Emma Ogilvie and Nick Landsman from Bar Céleste

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For a new spot, Bar Céleste has been received extremely well. It was named the best new opening of 2019 by Viva, reviewed glowingly by Metro, and is ...

Jimmy Hayes from Minaal

04 Feb 2020

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Minaal's two founders landed on the idea of making travel bags as a way to continue a life lived abroad, and it’s still working, with this week’s ...

Business is Boring with Morris Pita from EmergencyQ

29 Jan 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Greg Brebner from Blunt Umbrellas

22 Jan 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Bridie Picot from Wrappy and Thing Industries

15 Jan 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Mike Taylor

08 Jan 2020

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Bruce Turner and Thomas Rowe from Urbanaut

23 Dec 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Robyn McLean from The Hello Cup

18 Dec 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring With Campbell Ellison from Callaghan & Alexandra Allan from FoodBowl

11 Dec 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring Jodie Fox from Shoes of Prey

04 Dec 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Jeff Xu and Ollie McDermott from Micropod

27 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Dr Brian Ward from Aroa

21 Nov 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Jade Tang-Taylor and Anna Guenther from Cheese Cartel

13 Nov 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Victoria Carter from Cityhop

06 Nov 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Valentin Ozich from I Love Ugly

30 Oct 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with James Bartle from Outland Denim

23 Oct 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with PredictHQ CEO Cambell Brown

16 Oct 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Kiri Nathan from Māori-inspired fashion brand Kiri Nathan

09 Oct 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Brianne West from Ethique

02 Oct 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Shaun Edlin from Dotterel and Richard Quin from Callaghan Innovation

26 Sep 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Ian Taylor from Animation Research Limited

18 Sep 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Tim Brown from AllBirds

11 Sep 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Erik Zydervelt from Mevo

06 Sep 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Hamish Pinkham from R&V

29 Aug 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Paris Mitchell Temple and Georgia Cherrie

21 Aug 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Michael Allpress from Allpress Espresso

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If you take a step back and look at it, it is kind of bananas that New Zealand went from no real cafe culture, to having a coffee so associated with d...

Business is Boring with Dr Peter Surman and Simone Hollier from Douglas Pharmaceuticals

07 Aug 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Nick Hyland and Jacksen Love from Flamingo Scooters

01 Aug 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Jesse Armstrong from Culture Lens

25 Jul 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Meet the big cheese from the Clevedon Buffalo Company

18 Jul 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Dr Shaun Holt

11 Jul 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How a career bringing goods out of China brought about Container Door

04 Jul 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

The AI chatbot app helping people get the mental health services they need

28 Jun 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Meet one of the Australian-based Venture Capitalists investing in local businesses

20 Jun 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Kate Gwilliam from Zeddy

13 Jun 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring: Sue Dunmore

06 Jun 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring : Andrew Childs

30 May 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Techweek special- celebrating Māori Innovation and 2019's Tech trends

23 May 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

How 5 years of R&D proved a local skincare company had a product that actually works

16 May 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Manawa Udy on how co-working can tap into South Auckland's potential

09 May 2019

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Co-working spaces can be great little communities. There’s something exciting and energising about being around people making interesting things hap...

How creating more connections can help NZ Scale-Up

02 May 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Stephanie Post and Hayley White from Auckland Art Fair

18 Apr 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring with Dan Mclaughlin and Mark Neal from Scapegrace

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is boring with Grant Straker from Straker Translations

04 Apr 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring: Jenny Morel on 20 years in the tech industry

28 Mar 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is boring: John Macaskill-Smith

22 Mar 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring: Dr Will Barker and Imche Fouri from Level 2 and Mint Innovation

14 Mar 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...

Business is Boring: Asuwere with Sam and Noah Hickey

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dollar Shave Club, My Food Bag, Xero….. subscription businesses pop up in many areas of life, because they make for great business. If you work out ...

Business is Boring: Elisha Watson

01 Mar 2019

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovato...