The past year I have had the chance of coaching great teams around the world, helping them become Agile and produce better products, have more fun while doing it and help them rediscover their passion for software development.
I’ve come across a few interesting situations which made me reflect a bit about the correlation between [...]
I often get asked what’s the real value of ‘theoretical’ type business planning for a nascent start-up. The question that usually pops up is: why would anyone want to spend time painstakingly planning when circumstances are so uncertain?
Questioning planning is only natural. After all planning takes time, the output is ‘soft’ and generally slows down [...]
UPDATE: The March Workshop is sold out, so here is the April Web Focus Workshop registration details.
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Last night we had a fantastic turn out to start a new community group around lean startups.
It was a little bit opportunistic with Eric Ries, the key proponent of the concept, in town and a little bit of ‘about time, we need this in Sydney’. We only confirmed that the event was less than two [...]
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 question to [...]
Wow, amongst a flat-out, full-on week I’m poking my head up for a brief second to say;
“Hey, Pollenizer is two years old today!”
And I’m so proud. Proud of the team and crazy hard work they’ve put into building the more than dozens of great web businesses.They are fantastic and I can’t say enough to thank [...]
Short: Eric Ries from Startup Lessons Learned and Lean Startups is talking in Sydney Monday March 1st, 6-9pm. Register here.
Great news. We’ve been talking to Eric since we were on the same startup mentor group at Seedcamp in London last year. We wanted to try and get him to Australia to talk to the [...]
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 to [...]
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 passion [...]
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 the [...]
