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Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks with Lauren Callender, owner of The Aviary, about going it alone in business.

Shane Wratt is the founder of the West Coast-born sauce maker the Glasseye Creek Sauce Co.

Matt Stevens is a director of Wellington-based craft brewery ParrotDog.

Retail is far from dead, according to designer Lizzi Hines, who says despite the growth in online sales and decline in store shopping, retail is simply evolving. Her latest venture, Pop Up Now, aims to help facilitate this.

Ivan Seselj is a director of cloud-based business process management software company Promapp. Formed in 2002, the Auckland-based business has 20 staff.

Move over George Clooney, New Zealand's newest coffee capsule ambassadors have biodegradable pods that will decompose faster than orange peel.

Josh Daniell is head of platform and investor growth at Auckland-based equity crowdfunding platform Snowball Effect.

Belinda Tuki is the founder of Auckland-based The Honest Food Company, which produces handcrafted and raw protein foods that are free from grain, dairy, gluten and sugar.

Jeremy Wyn-Harris is a co-founder of Builderscrack.co.nz.

Stephan Goodhue is a director of Auckland-based Liquid Automation, which specialises in automation systems for marine, residential and commercial fitouts.

I used to think that LinkedIn was just a networking tool to keep in touch with business contacts, associates, colleagues etc.

New Zealanders are the lousiest tippers when travelling overseas according to a global survey by travel firm Expedia.

Andrew and Natalie Vivian like to joke that their chilled ready meal business, Tasty Pot, is their fourth child.

Many traditional forms of advertising are losing effectiveness - with a lot of decisions made on gut feel - not actual data. Massey University's Research Professor of Marketing Harald van Heerde talks to Chris Daniels about some new ways of looking at advertising.