A message to our Sydney-based startup friends. Pollenizer is sponsoring Coming to America event, now on Thursday, October 15, 2009 from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Rich venture environments exist where there is a pool of successful entrepreneurs re-investing back into the kind of businesses that they understand. The guys at Mitchellake are a unique [...]
Each week, the Pollenizer team needs to review many ideas for web businesses. Here is a simple process that we are using that you may also find useful. Our process is a mash-up of a business process and a blog post. The Process Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich wrote an excellent book called ‘Innovation [...]
A year and a half ago we created a violent, yet exciting and creative chemical reaction from the coming together of start-up veterans from Australia, India and Europe. Now we are reflecting internally to try to describe what it is that we actually do. I want to share this with you guys not as a [...]
We love Twitter as a company and as individuals. It’s quite fun seeing that chatter that goes around Pollenizer in a single day. Here’s a quick access list of all our Twitter names so that you can follow the fun. @pollenizer – Our company news account. @philmorle – This is me, Phil Morle. CTO and [...]
We’ve been working a lot in Europe for the past year and the time has come for us to pitch a tent on the ground. I am really pleased to announce that Amir Suissa has joined our team and will operate a Pollenizer HQ out of Zurich, Switzerland. Like all Pollenizer people, he is kind [...]
Over the weekend, we released Posse. Here’s some coverage in the Australian newspaper. The idea came to Posse CEO, Rebekah Campbell, when she was struggling to sell Evermore tickets in Perth. Recruiting the fans to work for the band quickly fixed that problem and planted the seed for a new web business. Here is the [...]
Is today the last day of our web business? Should we pack up our stuff and do something new? Has this idea failed? Will it ever gain momentum? Image thanks to Zoomar Have a meeting once per quarter and put this proposition to the team. It’s not about being negative. It powerfully shakes us out [...]
I’ve been involved with the idea of ‘data portability’ for a while now. Data Portability is the principle that data on the web should be easy to securely move around by those that have the rights to do so. At Ad:tech09 in Sydney I participated in a panel discussion with Ross Dawson, Chris Saad and [...]
I am speaking at ad:tech in Sydney tomorrow. The session I’m talking on is “Data Portability: Usage & Strategies”, on 10 March at 2.20pm. If you want to come along, let me know because I can get you 20% off. Here’s some detail on the session. Data Portability: Usage & Strategies As an online user, [...]
We are constantly on the look out for great people to join our team and right now we have some immediate needs described below. Let us know if you are interested or forward this post to your network. India We are looking for engineers to join our team in Trivandrum, India. We are especially interested [...]
