Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

Wow, amongst a flat-out, full-on week I’m poking my head up for a brief second to say; “Hey, Pollenizer is two years old today!” And I’m so proud. Proud of the team and crazy hard work they’ve put into building the more than dozens of great web businesses.They are fantastic and I can’t say enough [...]

I attended the Growth Summit in Sydney last week and also MC’d and spoke in the Tech stream on day 2. Here are some of my notes from the days. Big thanks to Karen, Cara, Larna and the crew for organising. Next year it would be great to have wifi with more live blogging/tweeting. I’ve [...]

Short: Eric Ries from Startup Lessons Learned and Lean Startups is talking in Sydney Monday March 1st, 6-9pm. Register here. Great news. We’ve been talking to Eric since we were on the same startup mentor group at Seedcamp in London last year. We wanted to try and get him to Australia to talk to the [...]

We’re at Growth Summit this week and thought it would be useful to share one of our most valuable tools: Pollenizer’s Site Page Strategic Plan Template We are big fans of Verne Harnish and the Rockefeller Habits. One of his most powerful contributions to our business has been the idea of a one page strategic plan [...]

Australia struggles to innovate. I know this is not caused by a lack of ideas or a lack of vision because I live in a world of Australian entrepreneurs. Indeed, what this community gets done, against all odds, is extraordinary. The National Broadband Network in Australia is an opportunity to throw the genius, energy and [...]

We have been working with Dean McEvoy and the Booking Angel team to create some new tools for affiliate restaurant sites to integrate Booking Angel simply by dropping Javascript code into their site. For those of you that don’t know Booking Angel, the business solves a strikingly large problem with online booking.  Whilst consumers use [...]

Remedy Tea Test tubes (by storyvillegirl) The only way to be fantastic at creating products that customers love and keep on loving (which is a core tenant of marketing) is to have a culture of testing in your company. When a product is young it’s easy to have ideas about how to improve them. It’s [...]

Starting a business is hard. By far, the hardest part, is delivery. When we first started Pollenizer a couple of years ago we followed the Google idea of 20% time in which we would dedicate approximately 1 day per week each to internal projects. We tried to launch a small product called Goalsy like that: [...]

So we’ve turned off the bad TV and changed to showing tweets on our big TV in the office. You can send your tweets to us by using hashtag #pollenizerhq We also pick up Mogeneration and BookingAngel who share an office with us. The Tweets: Tag Cloud; The application is Visible Tweets developed by Cameron [...]

I was interviewed by the Terence at Board Room Radio for their Commsec Entrepreneur Series just before Christmas. I had a great time at their office chatting with the team. Board Room Radio itself is a super interesting business that has managed to thrive in a competitive marketplace by being highly focused on delivering high [...]