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 photo book-making tool by Blurb. With this tool at hand, you can [...]
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 created: 60 Tax paid: Just the right amount. Investments made: 4 totaling $165,000 New companies formed: 8 Highlights [...]
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 pre-holiday, semi-fun, semi-research kind of project, I’d like you to answer the following question. If [...]
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!’, then you should attend our new and improved, one-day Startup Bootcamp. [...]
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 Australian companies that are doing things differently to bring about positive change. Over 700 aspiring ‘cool [...]
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 have a chat about how Nikki successfully used Facebook to test out [...]
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. This is awesome! Seeing so much entrepreneurial energy in the Australian web industry [...]
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 think?
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 something, being confused by something, seeing bugs that [...]
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. 1 VC with a bucket [...]
