EDITORIAL
A new angle on angels
Bill Payne is one of America’s leading angel investors and is in New Zealand for three months to share his 25 years’ experience with angels and entrepreneurs. Payne has invested in more than 50 companies, mentored hundreds and founded...more »
Bill Payne is one of America’s leading angel investors and is in New Zealand for three months to share his 25 years’ experience with angels and entrepreneurs. Payne has invested in more than 50 companies, mentored hundreds and founded...
Books in brief
Design for Obama: Posters for Change, A Grassroots Anthology Buy@Fishpond Edited by Spike Lee and Aaron Perry-Zucker (Taschen, 2009) $70 It’s hard to forget the phenomenon that was the last...more »
Design for Obama: Posters for Change, A Grassroots Anthology Buy@Fishpond Edited by Spike Lee and Aaron Perry-Zucker (Taschen, 2009) $70 It’s hard to forget the phenomenon that was the last...
New note
Recovery “Now the real work starts,” we wrote in our August 2007 cover story on chanteuse Hollie Smith, who had just signed with Blue Note subsidiary Manhattan Records after winning rave reviews from Blue Note chief executive Bruce...more »
Recovery “Now the real work starts,” we wrote in our August 2007 cover story on chanteuse Hollie Smith, who had just signed with Blue Note subsidiary Manhattan Records after winning rave reviews from Blue Note chief executive Bruce...
Smile, you’re in New Zealistan
Illustration by Dean Proudfoot Catch those upstart Aussies by 2025—that’s the aim of John Key and his young Turks. Dream on, John. Government inaction and the biggest recession in 70 years are conspiring to bring us level with...more »
Illustration by Dean Proudfoot Catch those upstart Aussies by 2025—that’s the aim of John Key and his young Turks. Dream on, John. Government inaction and the biggest recession in 70 years are conspiring to bring us level with...
True detective
Assignment Someone must have told Leigh Hart to always, always over-deliver. But his request to TVNZ programmers to let him deliver six one-hour episodes of his new show instead of the 30-minute episodes commissioned—at no extra... more »
Assignment Someone must have told Leigh Hart to always, always over-deliver. But his request to TVNZ programmers to let him deliver six one-hour episodes of his new show instead of the 30-minute episodes commissioned—at no extra... more »
Small, but perfectly formed
Emerging talent Palladium should be the hero metal of the 21st century. It’s best known as the active ingredient in catalytic converters, cleaning 90 percent of the toxic gases from vehicle emissions. There’s a problem, though:... more »
Emerging talent Palladium should be the hero metal of the 21st century. It’s best known as the active ingredient in catalytic converters, cleaning 90 percent of the toxic gases from vehicle emissions. There’s a problem, though:... more »
Show Biz
Photo: Corbis/TRANZ At just two years old, Twitter is a worldwide phenomenon and changing the way we communicate. Co-founder Biz Stone says it’s a happy accident Twitter, the invention of three serial Web 2.0 entrepreneurs, is easily... more »
Photo: Corbis/TRANZ At just two years old, Twitter is a worldwide phenomenon and changing the way we communicate. Co-founder Biz Stone says it’s a happy accident Twitter, the invention of three serial Web 2.0 entrepreneurs, is easily... more »
The Conversation
Nobody believes business anymore. So who’s in control of your brand? It’s all of us. Here’s how the truth has been democratised, distributed and Google-optimised. It’s goodbye to the mass message and welcome to The... more »
Nobody believes business anymore. So who’s in control of your brand? It’s all of us. Here’s how the truth has been democratised, distributed and Google-optimised. It’s goodbye to the mass message and welcome to The... more »





