Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

In this week’s podcast I talk to Mark Pesce, one of the co-inventors of VRML. Mark and I chat about what drives him to take an idea and see it through to completion. What’s more important for success, the person or the idea? We also, chat about his new project Plexus – a personal, portable [...]

Pollenizer is looking to hire a Junior / Mid-weight Project/Product Manager. Woohoo! Is that person you? See below. The lucky winner will have to do stuff like: Spend half of his/her day in Jira and/or wire framing cool products Spend the other half in meetings and Skype calls / chats Spend the third half doing [...]

“We’re 99% there,” says the very excited entrepreneur. “Fantastic, well done. Only 50% of the way to go,” responds the veteran advisor. We often laugh at this at Pollenizer. It’s something we hear lots of people say when they are starting a new web business, establishing a new partnership, closing a sale or raising investment [...]

This week in the Pollenizer Podcast we chat to the fabulous UX consultant Lisa Herrod, also known as @scenariogirl. We talk about UX in terms of start-ups and Lisa has some great tips for budding web entrepreneurs out there. We had some sound glitches so apologies if the quality isn’t quite perfect, we’ll have it [...]

Pollenizer wants to be co-founder of your next web business For years we have been preaching focus. It aligns your team, simplifies most things, combines your energies in one direction and generally makes life better. This applies to us as much as it does to the companies we work with, and now we’re further tightening our [...]

So this week we chat about the newly launched Pollenizer Bootcamp. Since we’re selling our own wares we decided this would be called the steak knives edition. My cold also gives me a great infomercial lilt to my questions. There is some useful info in there though, so don’t be deterred – I think I [...]

A short story about the difference between belief and experience to encourage developers to get out of their comfy chairs and go and talk to your customers. At Lean Startup Circle Sydney, a number of the people were concerned about having to go talk to customers as a part of Customer Discover and Customer Development. [...]

Pollenizer was approached Chris Gray in June to run a focus workshop for a web business Chris had founded (working title ‘Pledgespace’). In the first half of the 4 hour workshop we worked on customer discovery (micro-segments, customer values, creating 10 X value). We iterated on this process to create a focused customer development plan. [...]

Today we speak to one of the CTO’s here at Pollenizer, Bruno Mattarollo about the challenges for engineers when building lean start-ups. We don’t get too technical and if you’re a developer and thinking about building a start-up, I’d say this is a must-listen. Let us know what you think and what you’d like to [...]

We’ve had a few iterations of start-up based podcasts here in Australia, some of which I’ve been involved in, but since there are none that we know of at present, we thought we’d fill in the void with the Pollenizer Podcast. In this first podcast, Phil Morle and I talk about lean start-ups, a term [...]