Personal delivery service LazyAz is using AlphaCrowd's equity crowd-funding platform to expand services to the rest of the country. LazyAz founder Aryaman Taore recently turned down a place at Harvard University to take full control of the business. Taore, who is studying engineering at Auckland University as well as running the business, said he had always been business-minded. "I really wanted to create my own startup when I was 13. Indian-born Taore, who immigrated to New Zealand with his family at age six, said initially his family and friends didn't think much of his business idea.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 20, 2016 21:17 UTC