by Phil Morle | Mar 7, 2013 | Pitching, Startmate 2013, Uncategorized
It’s been almost two months since Startmate’s Adrian Dean and Ludek Dolejsky, co-founders of Shiftr, arrived in Sydney — Dean from Canberra, and Dolejksy from the Czech Republic — to join the other companies taking part in the Startmate accelerator...
by Phil Morle | Feb 27, 2013 | Pitching, Startup Science, Uncategorized
Tyler Crowley (@steepdecline), is the co-host of This Week in Startups and works one on one with early-stage companies before they pitch at the LAUNCH conference. He was in Sydney for a few days and ran two pitch clinics with a lucky few startups. I spent most of last...
by Phil Morle | Feb 20, 2013 | Pitching, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Successful startup founder and commentator Tyler Crowley will next week share the knowledge he’s gained helping hundreds of early-stage companies polish their pitches for events including the TechCrunch and LAUNCH conferences with some of Australia’s most promising...
by Phil Morle | Feb 18, 2013 | Pitching, Pollenizer News, Uncategorized
Pitching is the secret weapon of all great entrepreneurs. It’s something that must be sharpened and improved for a startup to win. And increasingly the bar gets higher. Pitching events train competing founders to deliver increasingly entertaining, compelling stories...
by Phil Morle | Feb 15, 2013 | Pitching, Startup Science, Uncategorized
Daniel H. Pink has suggested some new patterns for pitching. I had a go at Pollenizer’s Pixar Pitch. Once upon a time there was a tribe of people who lived in a place faraway called Australia. Every day they dreamed of starting a company of their own. To change...
by Phil Morle | Nov 13, 2012 | Pitching, Resources, Uncategorized
Matto Rochford is the guy responsible for communicating what Zeptonics does — not a simple task, considering the high-tech nature of the devices the company manufactures. Rochford describes himself as a tech-savvy ‘non-techy’, with a background in...
by Phil Morle | Nov 9, 2012 | Pitching, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
In May this year, at one of their weekly ‘pivot or persevere’ meetings, the founders of StreetHawk decided to change tack and try a different business model for their startup. Founders Natasha Rawlings, David Jones and Sri Panyam decided to develop...
by Phil Morle | Nov 6, 2012 | Pitching, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
On Tuesday night, Alan Crabbe stood in front of a room full of investors, at the 150 year-old Union, Universities and Schools Club in Sydney. He was pitching to Sydney Angels, Australia’s largest collective of early-stage investors. The period decor, vintage red...
by Phil Morle | Sep 18, 2012 | Events, Pitching, Startup Science
Getting your pitch right takes time, says Matt Allen, co-founder and CTO of enterprise startup, ProcessGo!, a company which helps simplify tendering processes giving companies a faster and more accurate way to assess potential suppliers. Allen delivered the winning...
by Phil Morle | Sep 24, 2011 | Pitching, Pollenizer News
Last week we organised 2D2R(Two Days to Release). Let’s have a look at some of the pitches we had during 2D2R : Red Meow RedMeow is a subscription service where you get 4-5 deluxe samples of beauty products mailed to you each month in a stylish box. Raffle Cloud...
by Phil Morle | Jul 14, 2011 | Code, Pitching
We have been working on a simple Ruby on Rails application to allow incoming founders to pitch to us and our friends at Innovation Bay. Its a bit of a side project for us but we have a working, simple version that we thought other incubators and investors might find...
by Phil Morle | Feb 27, 2011 | Pitching, Startup Science, Tools and Templates
Here is a set of slides we use at Bootcamp, Startmate and other forums when we’re working with new startups. The idea is to be able to quickly and succinctly tell the full story of the business without thinking about it too much. You get 5 seconds per slide....