Category Archives: Start-ups

Idealog: All in a Timely manner

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Idealog #42: All in a Timely manner November-December 2012 Ryan Baker and his co-founder Andrew Schofield have more than a decade of experience building online booking tools. The pair founded a similar website, bookit.co.nz, which was acquired by TradeMe in 2010. “We looked at the services space a couple of years ago and saw it was   …Continue Reading


Acclaim from the world to Dunedin

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Otago Daily Times – Wednesday 31 October 2012 Being able to enjoy Dunedin’s lifestyle while fielding calls from customers in New York or Belfast is something Ryan Baker finds “kind of cool”. Mr Baker, along with Wellington-based Andrew Schofield and Will Berger, are behind Timely Ltd, a company that has produced a cloud-based appointment management   …Continue Reading


Big week for Vend in cloud POS

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What is it with tech company founders and cramming a whole pile of awesome into one week? Earlier this week cloud-based POS provider, Vend, announced a $2m funding round. The timing of this funding is excellent for the Auckland & San Francisco based start-up. The Vend team has established a flame in the cloud-based POS space,   …Continue Reading


Wear your start-up hats well

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You are a start-up founder and you are wearing a bunch of hats. But are you wearing them well? Our previous start-up, BookIt, was a pretty typical boot-strap tech startup. Andrew and I learnt to wear a lot of different hats. We worked out (sometimes the hard way) which ones fitted us well and when it   …Continue Reading