Archive for July, 2009

Top 100 Aussie Web Startups

Blog on July 16th, 2009 1 Comment

TechNation recently called for feedback into how the Top 100 Aussie Web Startups is calculated and at the CTO meetup earlier this month we discussed some options that could improve the index.  As with many things it became very clear, very quickly that defining this list is not as trivial as you would first think. [...]

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Wanna be our office buddies?

Blog on July 10th, 2009 No Comments

More pictures on our Flickr and the floor plan here (our space is the “Commercial 1″) :) Lev 1, 65-67 Foveaux St, Surry Hills Find us on a map here. Get a desk, chair, net access, printer, board room, kitchen, whiteboards and high ceilings Share your office with web business, mobile and creative companies Rent [...]

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Idea Tournaments

Blog on July 7th, 2009 No Comments

Each week, the Pollenizer team needs to review many ideas for web businesses. Here is a simple process that we are using that you may also find useful. Our process is a mash-up of a business process and a blog post. The Process Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich wrote an excellent book called ‘Innovation [...]

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WIP: How Pollenizer Works

Blog on July 7th, 2009 No Comments

A year and a half ago we created a violent, yet exciting and creative chemical reaction from the coming together of start-up veterans from Australia, India and Europe. Now we are reflecting internally to try to describe what it is that we actually do. I want to share this with you guys not as a [...]

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100 Cups of Coffee to Refine Your Startup Pitch

Blog on July 2nd, 2009 1 Comment

We’re lucky enough to meet a lot of passionate entrepreneurs at Pollenizer and I love it. Exciting ideas, real belief and a twinkle in the eye that says they’re ready to take a risk to make it happen. I just wish they’d care a little bit more about the story. It would make the listening [...]

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