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![Mike Cooper: Aggressive stance needed when challenging a big player](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mike Cooper: Aggressive stance needed when challenging a big player
How do you get people to try a new food product that is up against a big player?
![Success: Cooking without compromise](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Success: Cooking without compromise
Baker reckons there's a place in the market for biscuits made just the way you'd make them at home.
![Twelve Questions: Stefan Preston](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Twelve Questions: Stefan Preston
My parents worked in middle-class jobs and taught me traditional values of hard work.
![Mobile gaming space like the 'wild west'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mobile gaming space like the 'wild west'
Claims of a 'gold rush' going on in the mobile gaming space right now are entirely accurate, says the founder of game development company Ninja Kiwi.
![Small business: Growing the brand - Murray Crane](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Growing the brand - Murray Crane
Murray Crane, owner of contemporary tailors, Crane Brothers talks about how to expand your team without putting off loyal customers who associate you, the business owner, very much with the brand.
![Business guru Kawasaki points the way](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Business guru Kawasaki points the way
Former Apple chief evangelist and now entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki says he wants to help New Zealand be even more enchanting on his upcoming visit here on Wednesday.
![KiwiYo planning Chinese scoop](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
KiwiYo planning Chinese scoop
Just 15 months after its launch in New Zealand, frozen yoghurt retailer KiwiYo is gearing up for major push into China.
![Small business: Your business online - Richard Manthel](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Your business online - Richard Manthel
Richard Manthel, AML Solutions co-founder, former managing director of Robert Walters NZ who set up AML Solutions with former Bell Gully partner Mark Todd in 2012. AML stands for Anti Money Laundering.
![Small business: Your business online - Wendy Thompson](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Your business online - Wendy Thompson
Wendy Thompson owns Socialites, the social media agency. Wendy and her siblings have also launched a side business called Start Social a toolbox for SME businesses who want to be on Facebook and look professional.
![Small business: Your business online - Sandra Lukey](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Your business online - Sandra Lukey
Sandra Lukey, director, Shine Group, a communications company which offers tech businesses and others a range of services including profile building.
![Small Business: Kiwi firm fights crime, corruption](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small Business: Kiwi firm fights crime, corruption
Starting a business under the protection of a larger company can be a good and a bad thing.
![Fundraising with desktop ads](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Fundraising with desktop ads
Kiwis have the chance to fundraise for charity by donating their computer screen space to be used for ads.
![Success: Long grind to grow coffee empire](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Success: Long grind to grow coffee empire
Get the quality right and look after the customer, and the business side will look after itself, says cafe veteran.
![Small business: Online retailing - Stefan Preston](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Online retailing - Stefan Preston
Stefan Preston, entrepreneur and investor, Ingenio, which has majority shareholdings in companies including www.bachcare and lingerie brand, Rose & Thorne Design. He has had five rounds of doing e-commerce.
![Peter Calder: Where the metal meets the park](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Peter Calder: Where the metal meets the park
Family metal workshop has helped define city but modern developers want cash, not character.
![Small business: Family businesses - Lindsay Aitken](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Family businesses - Lindsay Aitken
Lindsay Aitken, co-founder of Jalcon Homes with his wife Julie on what makes a family business different from other companies.
![Small business: Family businesses - Justin Craig](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Family businesses - Justin Craig
Family businesses weathered financial crisis better than non-family businesses.
![Small business: Family businesses - Paul Jancys](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Family businesses - Paul Jancys
Paul Jancys, director, Jaychem Industries, a contract manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, established in 1976 by Arunus and Eduard Jancys.
![Small business: Family businesses - John Tucker](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Family businesses - John Tucker
John Tucker, President, The International Centre for Families in Business, Staffordshire, England. He works exclusively with families in business, usually facing some form of transitional change.
![Small business: Sharmas keep fashion family affair](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Sharmas keep fashion family affair
Running a family business can be challenging at the best of times.
![Fashion firm crowd funds start up](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Fashion firm crowd funds start up
A Kiwi outdoor clothing start-up has raised more than $59,000 during the first 12 days of a crowdfunding campaign.
![Small businesses urged to increase computer security](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small businesses urged to increase computer security
A computer security expert is urging small businesses in New Zealand to step up their computer protection against online fraudsters.
![Small business: Your business online - Steve Lombardi](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Small business: Your business online - Steve Lombardi
Steve Lombardi is President and CEO of Real Time Genomics, a NZ started company now headquartered in San Francisco.
![Success: Going beyond the numbers](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Success: Going beyond the numbers
Accountant who transformed her own business is now helping others to achieve the same thing.