Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

This is a guest post by Chris Hitchen, CEO at getprice.com.au in celebration of Mick’s new son, Samuel. Startups and babies… The launch date is never certain and often late It doesn’t come out the way you expect it to It costs much more than you think There are lots of bugs along way No [...]

The founder of 99dresses.com is 18 year old Nikki Durkin. She came to see us after her last exam and this is her 3rd business. Her idea this time is to liberate women’s wardrobes which are typically 80% crammed with stuff that is never worn. 99dresses.com is a peer-to-peer clothing business which provides the tools [...]

I’m pretty proud of the work we do on our processes in Pollenizer. Our production  flow would be pure chaos without them. The starting position of all requests is do it now, do it for as close to free as possible, put the best people on it and make it perfect. Along the way this [...]

There is so much game theory in product design. Here is a terrific, yet slightly disturbing, journey through our game-packed world. DS Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5 As difficult as it may seem, you need to know this if you make consumer web products. Especially if you want to make revenue. My [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

This week, Bruno has flown into Barcelona with a team of scrum ninjas to work with Very Large Telephone Company, to implement Scrum across the company over a three month process. At Pollenizer, we are known for the agile way that we work. We are, shall we say,  fanatical about Scrum in our engineering teams [...]