by Phil Morle | Apr 3, 2009 | Startup Science
Having a strong market based business is great. You are a power-broker and can often profit from both sides. But how do you get over the chicken and egg problem? Market based businesses are when you need to bring together two different parties to perform a...
by Phil Morle | Mar 26, 2009 | Startup Science
A friend and ex-colleague has just started in a new role building a team to run social media for the Obama administration. One of their most interesting initiatives is to ask the community to contribute questions to an online town hall in the US tomorrow. So far,...
by Phil Morle | Mar 24, 2009 | Startup Science
Is today the last day of our web business? Should we pack up our stuff and do something new? Has this idea failed? Will it ever gain momentum? Image thanks to Zoomar Have a meeting once per quarter and put this proposition to the team. It’s not about being...
by Phil Morle | Mar 23, 2009 | Pollenizer News
I’ve been involved with the idea of ‘data portability’ for a while now. Data Portability is the principle that data on the web should be easy to securely move around by those that have the rights to do so. At Ad:tech09 in Sydney I participated in a...
by Phil Morle | Mar 23, 2009 | Startup Science
Don’t be tempted by the 98 octane hi-revving twin-supercharged speedster; sometimes it’s a simple, reliable, well-understood and easy-to-repair diesel you need. One of my favourite episodes from Top Gear is the “Big Trip To Africa”. Jeremy Clarkson and his...
by Phil Morle | Mar 21, 2009 | Startup Science
Pollenizer’s focus is on building web businesses, you can see that through the focus of our site, our blog posts and our experiences. However, something you might not know, is that many of us are also quite interested in the impact that technology has on civil...
by Phil Morle | Mar 17, 2009 | Startup Science
You remember the future we were promised, right? It had flying cars, robotic housemaids, one-piece shiny suits and meals in convenient pill form. We don’t live in that future because the people planning utopia fell in love with their own beliefs about what...
by Phil Morle | Mar 9, 2009 | Pollenizer News
I am speaking at ad:tech in Sydney tomorrow. The session I’m talking on is “Data Portability: Usage & Strategies”, on 10 March at 2.20pm. If you want to come along, let me know because I can get you 20% off. Here’s some detail on the session. Data...
by Phil Morle | Mar 9, 2009 | Pollenizer News
We are constantly on the look out for great people to join our team and right now we have some immediate needs described below. Let us know if you are interested or forward this post to your network. India We are looking for engineers to join our team in Trivandrum,...
by Phil Morle | Mar 3, 2009 | Startup Science
Thomas Friedman said ‘The World is Flat’. It certainly is for Pollenizer. Here’s my ‘office’ on Sunday. We were meeting with Mixin in the Swiss Alps. Mixin is a Swiss company we recently invested in and to augment their team with the...
by Phil Morle | Mar 3, 2009 | Pollenizer News
We love our name, but know that sometimes people miss spell it, so here are some of the other options in hope that Google and other search engines catch them; Pollinizer or www.pollinizer.com Polleniser or www.polleniser.com Polenizer or www.pollenizer.com Polliniser...
by Phil Morle | Mar 2, 2009 | Startup Science
Today we launched a ‘viral’ campaign with the Photo Art crew and I have some observations from the lab. I’ve been working with Photo Art Gallery for about 9 months in total, and four months full-on. I’m hoping to write up a bigger case study,...
