We recently chatted with founder Cameron Stewart, founder of d-i-ply, a company offering stylish, affordable furniture kits for crafty people. Cameron completed one of our programmes to help launch his company. Q. Cameron, what does your company do? d-i-ply scours the internet for the best and most innovative parametric furniture designs, then makes them in […]
Market validation is one of the most important steps when trying to build a business, but it’s something that most people don’t do well, or don’t do at all. It’s a process that you can go through to help develop your idea into a refined concept for a product and go-to-market strategy. We’ve written a comprehensive […]
The NZ China Entrepreneurship and Innovation Forum is coming up this weekend, so we sat down with organisers Kevin and Xilu to chat about our mission at Mum’s Garage, and how people can kick-off their entrepreneurial journey.
Starting a business is slightly overwhelming, to say the least. Although there are a tonne of great, cost-effective tools available to help you get off the ground, finding and deciding on the one that fits your needs best can become a time consuming task. We’ve compiled a list of tools that we and other founders […]
We caught up with Nelson Shaw, Co-founder of WheyCartel, to pick his brains on e-commerce, useful startup hacks and building a global company from New Zealand. Nelson and his co-founder Rab Heath initially partnered to found the AgTech company Haptly. However, after identifying opportunities in the fitness industry, they made a pretty significant shift […]
In late 2016, Mum’s Garage partnered with 2016 Lightning Lab Digital Programme Director, Jeff Mann of Double Shot, to deliver New Zealand’s first pre-accelerator programme called The Validator. The programme was delivered for Creative HQ leading into the Kiwibank FinTech Accelerator.
Late last year we connected with The Happy Startup School in Brighton, and loved the format of their Lean Coffee events. We’ve now been running them monthly in Auckland ever since, and are currently hosting them at our Eden Terraces offices towards the end of each month. Lean Coffee – Happy Startup School Style – […]
Our Entrepreneurs Unleashed event series has has now bought together over 150 aspiring entrepreneurs in 2016, and we’re looking forward to bringing together many more in 2017. Entrepreneurs Unleashed is a bi-monthly event for people to learn real, practical advice for starting a business from those who have done it before. We invite founders who are […]