Showing posts with label new business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new business. Show all posts

Thursday, August 14, 2008

DogMog - coming soon

Sarah has been working hard on getting DogMog up and running. It's a Wellington based start-up, driven by Sarah who is a vet-nurse by training but also has a strong background in product development for Telecom. Did I mention she's engaged to my brother too? With that combination it should go well!

As Sarah says in her blog, this what DogMog is about...

DogMog gives members the ability to rate and review the products, services and parks they use, on a site dedicated to helping you make informed decisions about your pets care.

Site is up and running soon - looks like there have been some teething troubles with Silverstripe based on the last post on the blog - so in the meantime subscribe to the blog and check the site out when it goes live.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Valuecruncher

Mark from our football team has been notably absent for most of the season. We might be second on the table (Uni Raiders) but the lack of goals is pretty much directly related to Mark's absence.
Turns out he has been working like a dog the next phase of his company Valuecruncher.

The guys there have been creating a super simple tool for predicting company valuations for listed companies. Jim has picked it up as well.

The football team used to be mightly impressed that in its previous incarnation Mark and co had found a way to monetise the NPV function in Excel. This new version seriously takes it up a level with the ability to adjust company valuations in real time plus a community function so you can see what other people are valuing the same company at. You can follow their progress on their blog.

Of course I had to have a look at the spread on AAPL - as it would be one of the ones to polarise people the most. Naturally I am not disappointed (apart from the potential upside!).

Great work getting Valuecruncher 2 out the door guys - awesome to see another Wellington crowd getting in amongst it.

And Mark - if you don't get out on a Saturday soon we may just ask Whispering Death to put your subs on the bar...
Disclaimer: I occasionally pass Mark the ball so he can score goals

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Small Business hosting in NZ

I saw Swizzle via Rod Drury today.

I had wondered with the decrease in cost of servers whether there was an opportunity to get into this - especially with small businesses who don't need all the bells and whistles, just secure and reliable hosting.

The process looks super easy, but to be honest it wasn't that cheap ($1200 per annum for a linux server?) but I may be out of touch with pricing - I hope they do well.