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Stories that mention Dave Moskovitz - Page 2

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Mish.guru: Your Snapchat business dashboard
Mon, 21st Mar 2016
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snapchat
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startups
Mish.guru provides basic information that is absolutely critical to any business running a social media campaign. You can easily see how many followers you have, how many people have viewed your story and snaps
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BioLumic: Using the near-magical properties of UV light to increase crop production
Mon, 14th Mar 2016
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science
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sotw
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startups
BioLumic increases crop yields by applying ultraviolet (UV) light to seeds, seedlings, and plants in very specific “recipes” to control their growth patterns.
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PocketSmith: Take control of your personal finances
Mon, 7th Mar 2016
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finance, leasing & rental
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investment
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management
PocketSmith answers basic questions about your personal finances: What’s my net worth? How does my power bill vary over the course of a year?
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InsuredHQ: Insurance company Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Mon, 29th Feb 2016
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cloud services
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iaas
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insurance
The insurance industry is ripe for disruption from cloud computing. Auckland-based InsuredHQ provides a feature-rich but easy to use cloud-based quote and bind system for insurance companies and brokers.
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Intrude A Lock: Fitbit for your luggage
Mon, 22nd Feb 2016
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safety
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sotw
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startups
Intrude A Lock is a simple but ingenious device which you can put into your suitcase before you go, and then query using your smartphone after arrival to answer these questions.
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KotahiNet: NZ’s first commercial Internet of Things platform
Mon, 15th Feb 2016
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nz
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commerce
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sotw
KotahiNet is building the first real commercial platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) in New Zealand, which is set to disrupt our daily lives in ways we haven’t even started to imagine.
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Flick Electric: Disrupting the retail energy industry with price transparency and great service
Tue, 9th Feb 2016
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data centre maintenance / management
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power / energy
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electricity
Flick has a simple business proposition: they give you electricity at the wholesale spot price plus a small well-known commission, and give you access to a wealth of easily digestible information that helps you manage your own power consumption.
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Publons: Speeding up science through the power of peer review
Mon, 1st Feb 2016
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
Scientific research is the key thing that moves our society forward, expanding the boundaries of human knowledge, enabling us to rigorously test which things are true, false, or needing further inquiry.
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Timely: Appointment booking for service businesses
Mon, 21st Dec 2015
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seo
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business
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management
Timely provides really simple cloud-based appointment booking aimed personal service businesses like hairdressers, massage therapists, and personal trainers.
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Ooooby: Hacking the food supply chain, Out Of Our Own Back Yards
Mon, 14th Dec 2015
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food
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sotw
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startups
Ooooby makes it easy to create local fresh food marketplaces that source food from local growers, and deliver to local consumers.
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Syngency: Cloud-based management software for talent agencies, as beautiful as the models themselves
Mon, 7th Dec 2015
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management
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talent
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sotw
Syngency is a cloud-based system for talent, modelling, and acting agencies. It makes it easy to manage their talent pools and market themselves to the industry.
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Parrot Analytics: One metric to rule them all for the TV industry
Mon, 30th Nov 2015
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digital entertainment
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tv
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sotw
How’s this for a business model: attract the top talent in a tough industry, and solve their most pressing problem. That’s exactly what Parrot Analytics is doing.
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Uncharted: Patient charts in the cloud
Mon, 23rd Nov 2015
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it in healthcare
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hospitals
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sotw
What did you do over the weekend? Jack Newberry took a serious problem that’s been irritating him for a long time, found a team, banged up a prototype, and built a business around the solution in 54 hours.
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iQualify: Disrupting tertiary education from the inside
Mon, 16th Nov 2015
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cloud services
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education
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learning
Open Polytechnic specialise in Open, Distance, and Flexible Learning, and have been doing so since they were established after the Second World War to provide distance vocational education to returned servicepeople.
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Ebee: Clean, green beehive hardware
Mon, 9th Nov 2015
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environment
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sotw
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beekeeping
There’s a dirty secret in the beekeeping industry. Standard wood-and-wax hive frames don’t work for mānuka honey because they aren’t strong enough to handle the honey’s thixotropic nature
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Eight Wire: Migrate your data, from anything to anywhere
Mon, 2nd Nov 2015
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bi
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big data
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data analytics
Businesses of any size have mission critical data sets that reside in a variety of systems on different platforms. If you want these systems to use each other’s data, you have a headache proportional to the size of the data set times the number of formats involved
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Linewize: Cloud managed content filtering for schools
Tue, 27th Oct 2015
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cloud services
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education
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internet
Managing Internet access at schools is a very hard job. Linewize's cloud-managed firewall which doesn’t merely block all content that’s nominally off-topic.
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HunchBuzz: Enterprise innovation management
Mon, 19th Oct 2015
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innovation
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sotw
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startups
Have you ever worked in a large organisation? Then you know how stifling institutional inertia can be to the very creative ideas that will push the organisation forward.
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Engender: Laser guided sperm
Mon, 12th Oct 2015
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science
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sotw
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startups
Or, Star Trek comes to the farm gate. A boost to dairy income. Reducing unnecessary culling of bobby calves. No matter how you look at it, Engender Technologies is very cool.
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Swibo: Physiotherapy as a game
Mon, 5th Oct 2015
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smartphones
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technology gifts
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sotw
Swibo takes the drudgery of physiotherapy and turns it into a fun, competitive game. The player plays the game by using the balance board to do their prescribed physiotherapy exercises, which are cleverly disguised as a game.
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Debtor Daddy: Provider of credit control as a service
Mon, 28th Sep 2015
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money
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sotw
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startups
It is one of a very few companies for which you can truly say – switch on their service, and the money will start rolling in. hey’re currently based in the Lightning Lab Christchurch accelerator programme.
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Wearit: Access a free online fashion consultant
Mon, 21st Sep 2015
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shopping
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sotw
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startups
If you’re a guy and anything like me, you hate shopping for clothes, and would do almost anything to avoid it. And yet, we all need clothes, and most of us would prefer to look good and not like a dork, at least some of the time.
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NomosOne: the company that automates the life cycle of commercial leases
Mon, 14th Sep 2015
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finance, leasing & rental
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sotw
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startups
Its main features include automated document generation and management, the ability to connect all stakeholders in a transaction
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Leaping Tiger: the app which lets gamers find other gamers to play against
Mon, 7th Sep 2015
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technology gifts
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gaming
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sotw
Our first NZ Startup of the Week is Leaping Tiger, a location-based friend finding app which lets gamers find other gamers to play against, team up with, or message with.
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