Times like this, when funding is scarce and confidence is low, do bring one benefit. They force us to focus.
This year at Pollenizer we have had the privilege to work with 18 different startups (so far) and ‘focus’ has shone through as a single theme. Startup founders do understand the need for surgical focus, but [...]
OK, it’s late notice but we need a Barcamp to lift our spirits out of the doldrums and into the ‘cloud’z
It’s November 15
9-6 with end of year party to follow.
UNSW
Roundhouse
RSVP Here for Barcamp Sydney 4
Blog is here, but not updated yet
Plus we need sponsors.
If you can throw $250 into the kitty to make it rock [...]
I’m sitting in a jammed meeting room with 8 other people to bootup our new iPhone (as well as Google Android and Blackberry Storm) development business, MoGeneration.
The new business is led by two terrifically talented founders, Keith Ahern and Tom Adams. Even though we are in the early days of iPhone development, Tom and Keith [...]
It’s easy to get journalists to write about you; it’s just hard to control what they write.
We met with a startup CEO recently to take a brief on marketing. The conversation turned to which marketing tools they were currently using and which they had plans to use. As a PR person and journalist in two [...]
I met with a guy last night who started his business in the late nineties, built it up, got slapped in 2001 by the market, held on, kept building it up, got some success, and sold it a year ago and is about to lose his golden handcuffs.
We were talking about the market and fear [...]
