Startup Journey: Neil Cresswell – Portainer.io
Paul Spain talks with Neil Cresswell – co-founder and CEO at tech startup who have just raised US$6m in a Series A funding round. Learn from Neil’s journey and that of his rapidly growing New ealand/Global startup Portainer which makes working with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker simpler to benefit from.
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A Rocket to NASA JPL with George Li
Hear from George Li, a Kiwi Engineer who is helping conquer communications in deep space through his work and research with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and University of Michigan. George talks with Paul Spain about cube sats (satellites), the fascinating challenges and solutions to deep space communications and the journey into the space sector.
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Mon’s Flavours: Making food colourful
Monisha’s journey cooking and eating fresh, healthy food started long before she joined Instagram. In India, she worked as a naturopath, as an aerobic instructor and a yoga teacher.
Life changed when her family and she decided to move to New Zealand. They began their journey in Invercargill where Monisha was unable to resurrect her career in naturopathy and started working in a meat and freezing works. A seven-month stint at the local Pita Pit reminded her how much she loved being around fresh food and simple flavours. So, when they moved to Rotorua a few months later, Monisha continued to work in hospitality. But then she got sick.
To help her body recover, Monisha resorted to making lots of smoothies. “When it came to food, I always something a bit extra, so 
I’d make these pretty layered smoothies”, says Monisha. When her son saw her pretty creations, he opened an Instagram account for Monisha.
“I had no clue what I was doing. If you scroll down 1000 posts you will see I didn’t even know how to write hashtags correctly. But I learned. And I made friends. And then companies started approaching me to give them ideas for dishes. But it’s the smoothies that got me started”.
On the episode we talk about:
- Being real on social media
- From influencer to recipe developer, the journey
- Adding colour to food and how that can change your meal
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News of The Money-World / Ep 3 / Berkshire Hathaway
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Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet – possibly some of the oldest people I’ve seen talk before, and what they say, is what Rupert and I are talking about today.
NZ Sales & Marketing Insider – Episode 8: Alex McNaughten
This one’s all about the ‘s’ word! Salesman, sales coach, and sales thinker extraordinaire, Alex McNaughten is the secret behind the successful sales approaches of countless startups and high growth businesses in New Zealand. As well as acting as Virtual Chief Revenue officer across multiple companies, Alex recently co-founded sales talent incubator Apprento. Hear his thoughts on what it takes to succeed at sales and how to create an environment where your salespeople can thrive.
Making waste pay: Toby Skilton of Mutu and Oliver Hunt of MedSalv
Where there’s muck there’s brass. In this episode, Vincent talks to two entrepreneurs using technology to address waste problems at source. Oliver Hunt is founder of Medsalv, which cleans and refurbishes single-use devices. And Toby Skilton is founder of Mutu, an online exchange for sharing and hiring household equipment. Especially trailers. Both are recent startups, both deploy tech to solve seemingly impossible problems and both share a vision for a world with less toxic crap in the ground.
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Check out the two businesses profiled:
Mutu and Medsalv – both Christchurch-based circular businesses winning by doing good
News of The Money-World / Ep 2 / Coinbase, SPAC’s
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Coinbase – what is it, and how’s it going to behave when the price of Bitcoin is volatile? SPAC’s, IPO’s and DPO’s – what do they all mean and what are they good for?
Ryan Fox Speaks!
Top Kiwi professional Ryan Fox, back from playing a European Tour event in Saudi Arabia, and looking ahead to the Open Championship in July, talks about what it’s like to be a travelling golf professional in the Age of Covid-19
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News of The Money-World / Ep 1 / Bill Hwang
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Rupert Carylon and me Darcy Ungaro, dissect, discuss and deliberate the latest in money news from around the world. If you’d like to listen in to these sessions live, make sure you follow the NZ Everyday Investor on Clubhouse and tune in every Wednesday at 5:30pm.
This week, we’re discussing:
The tail of Archegos Capital Management how someone went from being worth $30bn to $0 in the space of a few weeks. This episode contains the use of one foul word, a drug reference, and mention of a family SUV – listener discretion is advised.
NZ Sales and Marketing Insider – Episode 7: Jenene Crossan
Early Stage Startup Story: Josh Faraimo, Kwotimation
Josh Faraimo of Kwotimation shares the story behind his early stage startup Kwotimation which recent raised $500,000 in a pre-seed funding round lead by Hillfarrance Capital. Kwotimation is a tech company that is automating the quoting process for tradespeople.
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Beef Jerky that won’t survive a Bomb Blast
Ash Razmi was on a trip in the States when he tasted his first quality craft beef jerky and couldn’t get enough. After he came back home he was determined to replicate those flavours and used a home dehydrator to try making his own jerky. It took him hundreds of attempts to get the balance perfect and because beef jerky is not made the same day there was lots of recording involved to see what worked.
Most of the biltong and jerky available in NZ is made by large manufacturing brands and has a long list of artificial ingredients. Ash didn’t want to create another tough, rubbery jerky that “can last forever and survive a bomb blast”. He decided that his company, Bootleg Jerky would make jerky that’s free of nitrites, nitrates, MSG or other additives with unpronounceable names.
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Since Ash worked full-time, he had to partner with a manufacturer who would agree to make the jerky to their exacting standards.
Since then, Bootleg Jerky has grown by leaps and bounds and they have now turned their garage into a custom-built licence
d manufacturing facility inside – and no, they didn’t actually tie up the MPI food safety officer (see their instagram video to know what I mean!)
Bootleg Jerky’s secret to success is firstly creating a great product. “Our marinating process is simple. Meat plus marinade plus time, or rather, lots of time”. On the episode we talk about:
- Why having a great product is important
- Direct to consumer or being on the shelves, what’s the better strategy
- Manufacturing journey – from garage to contract manufacturing to purpose built facility
- How Bootleg Jerky spread the word