Posted by Ben Milsom
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:20:00 GMT
In this time of collapsing stock markets, crunchy credit and general economic despair, we thought we should try and brighten peoples day in the only way we're legally able to right now - by updating the Nexx home page.
So welcome to the frustratingly new teaser site. We've refreshed the look to match what you'll see when Nexx launches in early 2009 - we hope you like it. Feel free to comment below with any thoughts.
We've been a bit quiet on this blog for the last couple of months, so its probably worth an update on where we are at.
What have we been up to?
A large amount of our time is spent working through regulatory issues. It has taken a while but we think that a solid legal structure is really important to our users, and these things can't be rushed.
We've continued to grow our team and are poised to make some exciting announcements in the new year regarding where Nexx goes to next. You'll hear about these things here and through the mailing list, so make sure you sign up.
We've been engaged in some great projects with the guys over at www.start-up.co.nz, including featuring on their Start-up journeys blog (where you can read more about Nexx and our journey to market) and a new TV series focusing on interesting internet start-ups in NZ.
We've been getting more active in the NZ online community, talking to people on Twitter, going to meetups and making the acquaintance of some great entrepreneurs in the process.
So things are happening, we just cant tell you all about them yet.
As always, if you're interested in Nexx we encourage you to sign up to our mailing list(www.nexx.co.nz). While you're there it would be great if you can let us know whether you see yourself as a borrower, lender or are just generally interested in the peer-to-peer concept. Its just a quick question and helps us out.
So keep a look out for us here, we'll be making announcements as we go along, including the launch of our beta programme early next year.
Once again, stay tuned.
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Posted by Ben Milsom
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT
So, we've committed the cardinal sin of blogging - a distinct lack of recent, relevant content. For a socially engaged, web 2.0, crowd sourced startup, we've done a bit poorly in the last few months. What can I say? Sorry.
We've been busy here at Nexx, and for the last little while writing about the process seemed to be a bit premature - lots of you have written to us telling us to hurry the heck up and just get Nexx to market. We're hurrying. We're getting to market. We're learning just how much of a virtue patience is, and we hope you can wait along with us. It will be worth the wait. Most of our hold ups are to do with regulation and approval, but there have been some interesting side adventures along the way.
But while we wait, we've had a great opportunity come our way that we thought people might be interested in. There's a great little New Zealand media company that is covering the startup scene in NZ - the aptly named start-up.co.nz and along with that, they've decided to make a TV show about 6 interesting New Zealand internet startups. We've been lucky enough to be chosen as one of the 6 companies who get followed, coached, introduced and profiled through the show. Its been alot of fun so far, with lots more filming to come. I'll update here when we have details on its showing etc.
Along with this, start-up.co.nz has also organised for three companies to blog about life as online entrepreneurs in New Zealand - not so much as one of the many 'advice' or metapreneurship blogs that are everywhere on the web, but more to give people a snapshot of the ride that is life with an idea, a team and a small budget. Its done in conjunction with the NZ Herald, so you can get to it either from the Start-up website, or from the NZ Herald technology section.
Of course, we aren't a Valley startup with $10m Series A funding and we don't have the money (or egos) for a VP of Social Media, Corporate Blogger and Director of Online Communities, so what you get instead is us. Just the founders, some guests and people that work with us. But as much as we love the blogosphere, we cant spend all day writing. We're going to segment the blogs.
This blog will still be Nexx's main blog. We'll write here about progress at Nexx and then a lot more post launch. Our Start-up blog will be the place that we talk about the process, talk about the people and share with you stories from the front line.
We're looking forward to connecting more with our followers, and this format should let us do that. So if you're so inclined, head on over to the Start-up blogs and read about some interesting NZ online entrepreneurship here
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