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Introducing Coachy

Blog on January 18th, 2012 1 Comment

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 [...]

French / Oz Start-up Drinks

Blog on December 1st, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

Applying Service Design Thinking to Start-Ups

Blog on November 29th, 2011 2 Comments

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 [...]

Pollenizer on Kochie’s Business Builder

Blog on November 28th, 2011 1 Comment

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/

Pollenizer Mentors for Mozilla Web FWD Accelerator

Blog, Promoted on July 8th, 2011 No Comments

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, [...]

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What’s your story?

Blog on June 24th, 2011 1 Comment

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 [...]

Yahoo!7 Acquires Spreets, A Pollenizer Portfolio Company

Blog on January 20th, 2011 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Big Day for Spreets

Blog on June 26th, 2010 4 Comments

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 [...]

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Facebook: Groups Vs. Pages

Blog on April 20th, 2010 No Comments

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 [...]

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How to be successful

Seth Godin Webinar – Are You a Linchpin?

Blog on March 24th, 2010 1 Comment

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 [...]

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