Angel investor network the Ice Angels have invested more than $7.8m into 26 Kiwi firms over the past 12 months.

A New Zealand company reckons it has come up with the answer for frustrated workers trying to focus on the task at hand.

Riaan Schmulian is the Auckland-based CEO of creative advertising agency Gravity Bureau, which has offices in Auckland and Los Angeles.

Tony Falkenstein, CEO of Just Water International, is also communication chair of the New Zealand chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation and will be its mentor chair.

Companies are now getting good impact from social media but a marketing expert says that online discourse has become more volatile, writes John Drinnan.

Ajay Marwaha - who has worked around the world in management and executive roles is a mentor to Kelly McLuckie and Jenni Ross-Janett, co-owners of Success Formula.

Accounting software company MYOB's bottom line was flat and revenue up 13pc in what its chief executive called a "tremendous" year.

Small businesses should find it easier to raise money after the Government gave the green light to new crowd funding and peer to peer lending regulations.

There's no room for shoddy and cheap Chinese exports anymore, says a visiting Chinese trade boss.

Society has got the speed wobbles, and each of us has a responsibility to not allow it to happen, at least to ourselves.

A landlord's attempt to get an award-winning Auckland restaurant to shut down and fix alleged problems with spreading odours has been dismissed by a High Court judge.

A group charged by the SFO for allegedly operating a $1.6m ad invoice scam don't want the case transferred to the High Court.

You know how important it is to get that few word summary of what you do. Not only get it – but get it right.

Necessity is said to be the mother of invention, and it's a phrase that seems to capture the motivations of many who have started small natural beauty products businesses.

Kirstin Donaldson is general manager of Boost New Media, a Wellington-based company with 15 staff that develops custom web and mobile applications.

Our Winter Olympics athletes have been pulling on black singlets before going out to compete...

Sachie Nomura is the founder of Sachie’s Kitchen, an Auckland-based Asian cooking school.

A third of Kiwi businesses admit being victims of crime, however the real figure is probably much higher, a private investigator says.

Victoria MacLennan is managing director of Optimal BI, a business intelligence firm that analyses and reports on data generated by businesses. It currently has 14 employees based in Wellington.

Darren Parlato is the owner of Parlato & Associates, a chartered accounting practice in Foxton.

Eleven employers have been accredited as the country's first living wage employers - among them, former Cabinet minister turned restaurateur, Laila Harre.

Five steps to building a business from scratch – without bank loans – in a down economy.

Darren Parlato, who owns Foxton's only chartered accounting practice, is clearly chuffed at the outcome of staff training recently undertaken by his only employee.