Pollenizer has raised $500,000 for a seed fund it will use to invest in early stage Australian start-ups. Pollenizer co-founder Mick Liubinskas said he hoped to have invested all the money by June next year, with investments between $10,000 and $100,000. A key difference from other venture firms is that Pollenizer joins as a co-founder, [...]
Marco Menato is the founder of Myth of Me – telling your life story, one question at a time – he’s in Sydney working with the Pollenizer team. In this guest post, he muses on the reluctance and lessons of taking up Twitter: First a frank admission … I have never understood Twitter. Sure I [...]
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 [...]
Inspired by Danielle Laporte’s permission slips, here is our version for start-ups. Add yours in the comments.
In our latest Podcast we chat to Dean McEvoy – co-founder of Spreets – one of Pollenizer’s portfolio companies. Spreets is Dean’s second start-up having founded Booking Angel before. Dean has some great advise for entrepreneurs about raising capital as well as some hot dating tips. Yes, you read that right. You can now also [...]
This week’s Pollenizer Podcast is a little different, where I talk with the Public Interest Journalism Foundation’s chairman Margaret Simons and Secretary Melissa Sweet. I am also on the board, which you can read a little bit more about here The Foundation was set up to explore new approaches to news through technology – more [...]
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 [...]
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. Read Lisa’s great blog post on Lean Usability for Start-Ups from a talk she gave at [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
