Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

As part of Growth Summit conference this February 17th and 18th in Sydney, Mick is MC-ing the ‘Technology to Drive Growth’ workshop. We’re very happy to be able to offer half-price tickets to Pollenizer friends and family – a saving of over $400! The workshop will give great insight into which technology solutions are available, [...]

My colleague Mauricio and I were confronted with a very practical problem yesterday that left us thinking quite a bit about user-centered design. We are in Barcelona working at a client site and on the way back to our company apartment, we got a bit distracted talking about software and, as we walked down the [...]

This week, Bruno has flown into Barcelona with a team of scrum ninjas to work with Very Large Telephone Company, to implement Scrum across the company over a three month process. At Pollenizer, we are known for the agile way that we work. We are, shall we say,  fanatical about Scrum in our engineering teams [...]

There are hundreds of reasons why people never get around to developing their terrific start-up idea. Not enough time, money, experience … What’s your excuse? Following the recent launch of Commercialisation Australia, the time is ripe to give your business idea some legs. There are four kinds of grants available under the Australian government’s new [...]

Flat Eric on a Saturday Afternoon (by DeaPeaJay) Instead of having my morning coffee over my inbox, I sit in the cafe and read. It’s one of the best parts of my day and I highly recommend it. Pollenizer currently has more than 10 live web businesses that we’re working with, and another 10 at [...]

While working with one of our clients over the past few months, we had a large “us and them” divide between their business and technical staff. We quickly realised that we needed a common language that would build a bridge between the two groups. Of course, being a BDD adept, I thought that User Stories [...]

The Pollenizer team has been working its bum off on Posse for the past year and we are really chuffed about its explosive growth. This time last year we were just starting work and now we are live in 3 countries (AU, UK, US) with 6 ticketing platforms and over 700 artists have promoted over [...]

Pollenizer has been running with a full-service marketing team since July 2009. We provide full-time, part-time or project based marketing professionals focused on building web businesses. We’ve decided now is a good time to tell the world who we are and what we do.

What do you think 2010 will bring for the Internet industry? A few of us at Pollenizer put our two cents in. We’d love to hear what you think the future holds too!

How do you measure success in your web business? Do you have a model to test actual numbers against each month? Are you are investing in the right places? Are the changes you are making to your site creating more business activity – whatever that is for you? Too frequently there is a simple measure [...]