newzealandinc.com reporting live from NZ Rocket Pitch competition, presented by The Icehouse and Geeks on a Plane. Join the conversation – follow us on twitter @nzincltd From The Icehouse website: “This December fourteen high profile investors, entrepreneurs and executives will make their way from Silicon Valley to New Zealand to engage with the start-up scene down here. Among the fifteen geeks …

Winner – BNZ: Breaking the Rules Above: Chuffed – CEO of KlickEx, Ross Peat with his award. A new web-based foreign exchange service managed to sufficiently pique the judges’ interest, including that of Dave McClure – Director of Marketing for PayPal from 2001 to 2006. KlickEx aims to change the way foreign exchange transactions take place by providing market making …

Andrea Zurek Founding Partner XG Ventures newzealandinc.com got the chance to catch up with Andrea to find out what she thought of the entrepreneurial space here in Godzone. “There’s a lot of diversity here in New Zealand,” Zurek said of her time spent here so far. The entrepreneurial landscape was so different to that of the United States according to …