Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

Startups often head towards mediocrity, low growth and less success because they set out to build a free product and the value matches the price. I’m proposing we reverse the way we look at the ‘freemium’ model and by doing so, build better businesses. (by Material Boy on Flickr) A video taken at Barcamp Sydney [...]

After just one day in Wellington for the Webstock 09 event I’ve got some insights into why the web scene is more vibrant than anything in Australia, including Sydney. Though there are definitely still mysteries. Ze Frank at Webstock 09 from Kiwi on Flickr. With Webstock being so interesting, I’m going to bullet point this; [...]

At the end of 2008, I attended an inspiring mini-conference in Palo Alto for CTOs to explore big ideas. At last I have time to blog it. The conference was hosted by MIH SWAT – a division of Naspers with the mission to connect the technology strategies of the web businesses in their portfolio. Over [...]

Earlier today, I received this picture (click on the thumbnail since it’s quite large and needs to be seen in its full splendor) from Xavier, a friend that’s a practicing Agile Coach and PM in Belgium. Xavier has just started a fantastic blog on visual management for agile teams, you should definitely check the first [...]

Sometimes in the startup phase of a business, you’ll wrestle with the big issues for months at a time until you think you’ve nailed them. You feel like you’ve finally solved one of the great problems of our time. You get the big issues implemented in your front-end, announce it to your users, and sit [...]

Hey everyone, a bit of news. Firstly, welcome to our new website. Hope you like it. Please give us the same brutal, ‘be focused’ feedback that we give you. Secondly, some bad news on the Co-Working space. We’ve been pushing very, very hard to get in there but a number of issues have caused a [...]

The Enterprise 2.0 Forum is on again! Enterprise brain gym! Tuesday, February 24. 8.30 to 2pm Luna Park, Sydney I’ll be there again to hear the live feeds from the USA and UK. More thoughts on my blog here

Just saw Bart’s post on how funding can kill your startup and completely agree. Funding can be great for you and it’s certainly required at some points but I see startups all the time trying to solve problems in the wrong sequence. One of the suggestions I have is to try and solve the problem [...]