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 [...]
The Pollenizer team has been working its bum off on Posse for the past year and we are really chuffed about its explosive growth. This time last year we were just starting work and now we are live in 3 countries (AU, UK, US) with 6 ticketing platforms and over 700 artists have promoted over [...]
How do you measure success in your web business? Do you have a model to test actual numbers against each month? Are you are investing in the right places? Are the changes you are making to your site creating more business activity – whatever that is for you? Too frequently there is a simple measure [...]
It’s been a big year at the Pollenizer hive and we wanted to celebrate it with a book, beautifully crafted by our friends at Blurb.
We’re now a team of 60 people, operating across 8 countries who have helped over 60 web businesses to grow.
Here’s an idea for you. I call it ‘The Inverse Law of Ambition’. Founders who focus, obsessively, on small things seem more likely to grow massive companies. Founders that focus on growing huge without paying attention to the small things, fail. Facebook is the best example of this rule in action. Even today, it is [...]
Entrepreneurs think differently. Entrepreneurs build stuff in their obsessive daily quest to find value. They invent things, create companies, generate jobs. I love it, not only because it is good for our world to have lots of people thinking this way, but because it is an excellent attitude to life where anything is possible. It [...]
