Access Granted NZ

David Preece wanted to be a yacht designer when he grew up but ended up starting his own company making yacht instrumentation. Now David concentrates on making containers using SmartOS at his company 20ft.nz.

We also talk about the investor eco system and the next steps for 20ft.nz

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
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Richard MacManus (@ricmac) is an author and tech columnist and prior to that he ran a popular technology blog called ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite). He founded RWW in April 2003, building the business into one of the leading technology blogs in the world which he then sold the company to SAY Media in December 2011.

We talk about how Richard came to the decision to move on from RWW and get into his novel writing and the new role with the newly created Newsroom.

Mike and Richard also discuss how to navigate conferences, especially if you’re and introvert.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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Matthew Bartlett (@mhjb) started his career in graphic design (and typesetting), from there he became self employed and never looked back. After a long time in front a screens Matthew got into writing, book publishing and project management.

Matthew is also a Director of Loomio – open source software, built by a worker-owned cooperative social enterprise that began in 2011, when activists from Occupy Wall Street and social entrepreneurs from the Enspiral Network realised they needed to solve the same problem: fast, inclusive, effective decision-making without meetings.

Raj and Matthew geek out about typography Photoshop and other design related jibber jabber.

Then we dive into open source programming, chatbots,  AI and Matthew's next project. Fascinating conversation.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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Amanda Santos is a “hunter” and has extensive experience and success in supporting and guiding start-ups and other businesses in the area of sales, managing a software company and strategy.  Being discouraged to go into tech, Amanda first went into sales (relishing the challenge) and from there software/services sales.

Mike talks with Amanda about what her company Tekron, who specialise in advanced timing technologies, atomic clocks, services and solutions – all manufactured right here in NZ (Lower Hutt). They also discuss Tekron's new approach to working as a unit thanks to Amanda and her new CEO role.

And finally, we hear that 'cold calling' is THE BEST thing –  connecting with people and building relationships. Don't believe us, just listen and get the sales tips you always wanted ...

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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Part 2 of the talk with Dan Khan, he’s started Zero Point Ventures and we talk about the evolution of the start up eco system and the processes that are needed to make companies successful and also defining what success actually looks like for NZ companies.

“Instead of making a 100 million dollar company, lets make 100, million dollar companies”

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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We head to to Shelly Bay, on the Miramar/Wellywood Peninsular, to meet Lance Lones from L2VR (@L2VRfilm) where they research, design and manufacture virtual reality cameras right here in NZ!

The cinematic industry has always evolved as technology changes and here we are again, right back at the start with VR. It is exciting for those in this cutting edge industry where everything is up for grabs and everything is unknown - how will creators use these new technologies and what needs to be built?

Lance take us through how L2VR came to be, how they approach cinematic VR and how they are the complete company from software to the very impressive hardware they create in-house using 3D printers. 

Raj and Lance geek out over resolutions from tape to 4k/8k and 16k as well as coming up with a new name for “films” in this digital age.

There are some great surprises on this one ...

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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On a sunny day outside Karaka cafe here in the Wellington lagoon, we talk to Heidi Borner the founder of Orange Umbrella a Health and Safety company that help measure organisations risk. Heidi has a background in Occupation therapy and she found an gap in the processes and how organisations approach health and safety “ so she started Orange Umbrella.  We also speak to Hannah Delany who Heidi works closely with to get the heath and safety message out.

We discuss how companies can and need to have a robust process and have all stakeholders (including the Board of Directors) support for the good of their people. Its about having conversations rather than being lectured to.

No seagulls were harmed in making this podcast.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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We have had a long year and this was a time to reflect, get together and have fun. We talk to many of the attendees of #WellyTech where we talk about the past year (the ups and downs) and what the future holds for the Tech community next year.

Dan Randow also flips the script and interviews Raj about Access Granted's journey in digital transformation. 

"Thanks for your ongoing support of Access Granted. Its been a long year, enjoy the break and we will be back next year." – Mike and Raj.

Thanks to our collaborators BizDojo, ColliderWgtn, DevAcademy, Geekzone, NZ Rise, Hack Miramar, Open Data NZ and Rails Girls Wellington.

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We share New Zealand tech, social media, startup people's stories.
 
If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike’s (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj’s (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

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We chat with Richard Hulse (@RichardHulse) who, having recently left Radio New Zealand, walks us through his amazing career and the evolution of radio in NZ from the days of reel to reel tapes to the digital landscape. 

We also get a history lesson how the state owned broadcaster created our first commercial station and a few interesting names come up too.

Richard was also part of the team that developed the Radio New Zealand website using many languages to connect all the audio systems together and change the old “brochureware” site into the popular muilt-media platform that it is today.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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We check in with aurynn shaw (@aurynn), continuing on from previous episodes, "The Culture of tech" and "Engineers disease" (jumping straight to proposing solutions rather than working with people to understand the problem first).

We discuss ‘pattern match thinking’ and how to avoid it breaking down the barriers between Devs vs Ops as well as unpacking ’Contempt culture’ in tech a factor aurynn attempts to change within organisations.

There is a lot in this one, enjoy the ride.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZ
https://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZ
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Subscribe to the show however you want:
https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/