Last week, 6 weeks after starting work, Pollenizer and co-founder Luke Grana launched a new MVP – Coachy (www.coachy.com). What is Coachy? Coachy is a new marketplace where coaches are matched up with people who want to learn new skills with 1-on-1 live video sessions. At launch, Coachy is starting with French and Guitar [...]
Next Monday 5th December, French entrepreneur Christophe Tallec will be coming to Pollenizer to give a talk on the start-up scene in France. We’d love anyone who’s interested to come along to the Hive (180 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills) at 6:30pm for some drinks and swap stories. Chris is co-founder of Uinfoshare and has some great [...]
As Michelle wrote about the other day, we spent three days last week at a Service Design workshop with Marc Stickdorn. Much of the content out there on Service Design relates to non-digital customer situations, but there’s so much that pure web businesses can learn. Throughout the three days, I linked the lessons to startups and [...]
Yesterday, Pollenizer featured on Kochie’s Business Builders on Channel 7. Thanks to Kochie, Julia Bickerstaff and the whole team! http://au.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/video/watch/27390848/
How cool is this?! Recently, Mozilla launched a new programme called Web FWD, where young businesses are invited to spend 4 weeks in the Mozilla San Francisco HQ building their products. They’ll have access to Mozilla-spiked resources and, at the end of four weeks, an MVP ready to launch. Pollenizer’s Phil Morle is a mentor, [...]
This blog post by Mitch Joel is a good reminder that you should never forget the story behind your product. As customer development managers and marketers, it’s easy to fall into pushing your product to the detriment of your story. You’re so desperate for a email sign-up, a sale, a Facebook Like that you push [...]
Fantastic news today for the Spreets team, for Yahoo!7, for the Australian technology community and of course the Pollenizer team. Read below for the story, and a few notes from us at the bottom. Yahoo!7 acquires Spreets – leading Australian and New Zealand online Group Buying company SYDNEY, Australia, 20 January, 2011 – Online media [...]
As many of you know, we’ve been helping Spreets get started, so we’re very excited to announce today that Spreets has launched to all Australian capital cities. Read the media release below for more info: Group buying site Spreets receives $2 million investment and joins forces with brandsExclusive in new billion dollar industry Australia’s first [...]
By Bree Clare At present there are over 400 million active users of Facebook worldwide, and 50% of those active users log on daily (Facebook Press room). So it’s no surprise that businesses are now using Facebook groups and pages to promote their goods and/or services. But what are the differences between the two? And [...]
Yesterday the Australian Businesswomen’s Network hosted a webinar with Seth Godin on his new book, Linchpin: Are you indispensable? Although the book mostly markets itself to workers keen to stand out within an organization, there are important transferable messages for entrepreneurs. In Linchpin Seth introduces a new way of thinking around artistry. An artist, he [...]
