Hi all, I'd like to introduce you to myself. My name is Shona and I work at Creative HQ, a business incubator in Wellington New Zealand. Creative HQ specialises in assisting high-growth start-up businesses realise their commercial dreams through intensive mentoring, coaching, motivation and challenge. We offer entrepreneurs a challenging and rigorous programme not for the faint-hearted. Our objective is to build solid foundations for businesses that are capable of scaling to be globally competitive organisations. Creative HQ accelerates the growth and increases the potential of early stage businesses with executive horsepower, people networks, knowledge and infrastructure. Creative HQ is about getting improved results out of early stage businesses through active challenge and intervention in a caring, work hard, play hard culture. We focus on intellectual property and product based busineses that can be scaled to NZD $5million+ within 5 years. We also support specific sectors with dedicated programmes (eg. Fashion, IT). Creative HQ is on a journey, driven by passion and the desire to make a difference, living the Creative Hq entrepreneurial spirit and values to create the premier development programme for high-growth businesses in the Wellington Region. since our inception in 2003 we have produced eight award-winning high-growth companies and are looking at graduating a further five next year. Creative HQ operates as a Business Unit of Positively Wellington Business and the WREDA trust, Wellington's regional economic development agency.
Currently we are opening our doors for our 2007 intake of residents. We are looking for new talented entrepreneurs and their exciting start-up businesses to join our 2007programme. If you'd like to more about us or what we do and if we can help or youtr business in any way, then please contact me on New Zealand 0064 4 381 4444 or at shona@creativehq.co.nz and I'd be happy to chat to you. If you just want to browase around a taster of what we offer, then check out our website by visiting http://www.creativehq.co.nz