by Phil Morle | Dec 23, 2010 | Pollenizer News
At Pollenizer we love to make our own custom photo books with Blurb. Blurb’s on a mission to make it easy and affordable for anyone to publish a bookstore quality book. This means developing awesome publishing products such as Bookify, a free browser-based...
by Phil Morle | Dec 23, 2010 | Annual Reviews, Pollenizer News
What an amazing year we’ve had at Pollenizer! Babies born, dresses worn, new team members, bootcamps, founders, began Pollenizer Ventures…. Fantastic! Here’s a few ways we’ve contributed to the economy in the past year… Number of jobs...
by Phil Morle | Dec 22, 2010 | Startup Science
One thing we always aim for with building new businesses at Pollenizer with our portfolio companies is to be insanely useful and solving big, chunky problems. And, ultimately, hopefully to become products customers can’t live without. I thought for a...
by Phil Morle | Dec 8, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Are you… At the concept/idea stage of a new web business? Looking for Pollenizer to be a co-founder who would take a 40%+ equity stake in the new business? The founder who is going to drive the business? If you’ve answered ‘YES! YES! YES!’,...
by Phil Morle | Nov 30, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Pollenizer has been named one of Australia’s ‘Coolest’ businesses in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards. Pollenizer has been named a Finalist in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards, a national program developed in 2006 to recognise...
by Phil Morle | Nov 15, 2010 | Startup Science
In the latest Pollenizer podcast I talk to Nikki Durkin founder of 99 dresses, a fashion-swapping website that allows users access to an infinite wardrobe of clothes, and Pierre Sauvignon the product manager at Pollenizer who has worked (slavishly) on 99 dresses. We...
by Phil Morle | Nov 11, 2010 | Startup Science
The Pollenizer team is constantly exposed to a flux of new entrepreneurs with web-businesses ideas. This stream comes to us either via our Bootcamp sessions, Pitches rounds, Investors network or more broadly via the various social media tools our antennae can reach....
by Phil Morle | Nov 10, 2010 | Startup Science
I had the pleasure of joining Mike Knapp who founded the wonderful Shoes of Prey on Mark Jones‘ show for Financial Review TV. We spoke about Generation Y and we agreed that they can be awesome for building web businesses. What do you...
by Phil Morle | Nov 10, 2010 | Startup Science
Because I have built more web businesses than I can remember, I am very comfortable releasing products early. I know how much a product evolves in collaboration with its users when this happens. I know there will be more moments of micro-fail where I see users hating...
by Phil Morle | Nov 5, 2010 | Pollenizer News
22 people, 17 startups, a big fat bucket of focus and a great day. Last Friday I was in Perth to run our first Bootcamp there. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. It turned out to be fantastic. Here are some highlights; 17 startups – how fantastic is that....
by Phil Morle | Nov 4, 2010 | Pollenizer News
I’ve been a bit of a schmuck lately. Yep, I have. Pimping our companies on Twitter instead of being a part of the conversation. Reading posts and not posting my own. I feel a little dirty. Taking those lollies on he counter and only putting in 20c. Bad, bad,...
by Phil Morle | Nov 2, 2010 | Startup Science
A guest post from David McKinney – CEO/Founder of Jammbox. DIRTY HACKS FOR STARTUP FOUNDERS The aim of the dirty hacks series is to help you launch your startup faster, cheaper & dirtier. Everything is rough, crude, and fast. Just what you need for your...
