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Small Business: How to get millions from angel investors
How does a fast-growing small business attract angel investment?

Meeting gives backers wings to help with development
The purpose was to increase the professionalism of angel investing in New Zealand.

Small business: Adapt or die - Geoff Blackwell
Geoff Blackwell, CEO of book publisher, PQ Blackwell.

Success: Shutdown spur for NZ lingerie firm
Bendon's overseas move was an opportunity for new underwear-maker Rose & Thorne.

Small business: Adapt or die - Peter Cullinane
Peter Cullinane, co-founder Lewis Road Creamery, who says his mission at Lewis Road Creamery is to create the world’s best dairy products in New Zealand.

Shares in new software firm GeoOp surge
Stocks in software firm GeoOp soared 140 per cent in its debut on the NZAX after it sold shares in a private offering, raising $10 million to fund its global growth.

Small business: Adapt or die - Peter Bonisch
Peter Bonisch, sales and marketing manager of Fujifilm.

Small business: Adapt or die
A while back Fujifilm approached me with its story of recovery after traditional camera film was declared dead ...

Small business: Virtual gallery zooms in on art
Online portal open all hours puts buyers close-up in front of works throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Skål! Sweden laps up Kiwi beer
Craft brewer Epic is claiming victory over brewing giant Lion in the more than $3 billion Swedish beer market.

Business insight: Struggling companies need to ask hard questions
You operate in an industry popularly perceived to be in decline - how do you keep going?

Small Business: Family business - Aleida Harger
Aleida Harger, designer of the Louche and Aleida labels.

Small Business: Family business - Megan Sanders
Megan Sanders is the founder of Pineapple Heads, a natural range of children's hair products, made in NZ.

Success: Talent quest spark for growth
Business school competition helped turn clever technology into a growing business.

Small Business: Family business - Tony Falkenstein
Tony Falkenstein, Communication Chair - Entrepreneurs’ Organization NZ and CEO Just Water International.

Small Business: Family business - Justin Wright
Justin Wright, founder of PitchMetrics, a software as a service platform that helps organisations have high impact, concise and insightful face to face business development conversations with their customers.

Small Business: Family businesses - Ashleigh Whittaker
Ashleigh Whittaker, Gem Food Solutions, which has created Gem Escape Meals, a range of healthy, snap frozen meals that are designed to inspire all people, including those with food allergies.

Expat Kiwi's bright idea guides the way
A Kiwi has invented what could be the future in street lighting - glow-in-the-dark footpaths.

Twelve Questions: Lucy Marr
Lucy Marr is half of Auckland's most fashionable hair salon empire and has started her own organic skincare line, Sans.

Small Business: Gran's tale inspires thriving baker
There are many reasons why people set up their own business. Foodie and experienced cafe manager Natalie Oldfield wanted to share the story of her grandmother.

Inner circle can provide equity and emotional support
Family and friends will become your biggest supporters and your biggest critics and in some cases your first investors.

Law change to kick start capital raising
Investors will soon be able to take stakes in small Kiwi businesses through an online crowdfunding system which hopes to "liberate the New Zealand economy".