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Lights, Camera, Action: Industry Leading Companies Endorse StageBitz

Blog on June 17th, 2011 No Comments

StageBitz, an online inventory for props management, is being embraced by the tertiary training sector in Australia. The following key performing arts colleges are Founding Customers and signed up for individual licenses and are looking at how they can incorporate StageBitz into their curriculum: National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) Queensland University of Technology – [...]

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StageBitz joins the Pollenizer Portfolio

Blog, Portfolio, Web Strategy on March 23rd, 2011 No Comments

StageBitz is the latest promising Australian startup to join Pollenizer’s growing venture portfolio. This early-stage company is currently seeking strategic partners who can make a valuable contribution to the business through capital investment and expertise. StageBitz is a cloud-based web app that makes prop management a breeze for stage, film and TV production professionals. The [...]

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Make a Photo Book in Six Minutes

Blog, Videos on December 23rd, 2010 No Comments

At Pollenizer we love to make our own custom photo books with Blurb. Blurb’s on a mission to make it easy and affordable for anyone to publish a bookstore quality book. This means developing awesome publishing products such as  Bookify, a free browser-based photo book-making tool by Blurb. With this tool at hand, you can [...]

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Pitch Your Start-Up To Entrepreneurs & Angel Investors

Blog on September 9th, 2010 1 Comment

Innovation Bay has raised $6M from five dinners. If you need venture capital to shift your startup into its next fast-growth phase then Innovation Bay’s upcoming Angel Dinner in Sydney might be for you. If you are interested in coming to the dinner, have funds to invest or represent a company that is looking to [...]

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Playing on the Web: Create Your Own Word Cloud

Blog on August 27th, 2010 No Comments

If you haven’t played with word cloud creation tool Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg, you should! You can create pretty pictures out of your website or blog’s content. Wordle grabs all the words on the page or website you are ‘wordling’ and creates cool visual models or infographics which you can customise (typface, colours, layout and [...]

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Startup Lesson: Pulling The Ripcord to Fail Fast

Blog on July 2nd, 2010 3 Comments

Pollenizer was approached Chris Gray in June to run a focus workshop for a web business Chris had founded (working title ‘Pledgespace’). In the first half of the 4 hour workshop we worked on customer discovery (micro-segments, customer values, creating 10 X value). We iterated on this process to create a focused customer development plan. [...]

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Pollenizer Hosts Dare-Fest Party This Friday

Blog on May 28th, 2010 No Comments

Our community loves to come together to share ideas, network and have fun. Pollenizer loves supporting the community and we love to throw a party when we have friends from our of town visiting. Next week some entrepreneurial folk from Perth are coming to Sydney for some workshops and we’d like to introduce them to [...]

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What I’m Reading

Blog on April 26th, 2010 2 Comments

Whilst most of the work week is spent thinking and dreaming about growing web businesses (our own, our clients), there is just enough time to think about other stuff. Just discovered: Industrial design magazine and community, Core77. Here are two fun stories tagged under ‘object-culture’ (you get the drift) to give you a taste  of [...]

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Getting ‘the blurb’ on Blurb.com

Blog on April 12th, 2010 No Comments

It’s fun and challenging working with clients in different time zones, so it is good for the relationship when you can catch up in person. Samantha Howe (pictured) from Blurb visited Sydney in March to spend time with the Pollenizer Blurboz team; attend Blurb sponsored events; and catch-up with Blurb’s partners. I interviewed Samantha Howe, [...]

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