Apply for Startup Bootcamp today. It’s a practical and informative program to help you hone your idea and understand the full picture of building a successful business.

What’s the commitment? 4 nights of 3 hr hands-on workshops over 4 weeks. You will learn from a team of web veterans including Phil ‘Entreprenerd’ Morle and Mick ‘Mr Focus’ Liubinskas.

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For years we have been preaching focus. It aligns your team, simplifies most things, combines your energies in one direction and generally makes life better. This applies to us as much as it does to the companies we work with, and now we’re further tightening our focus.

Our goal: Invest our team and money in 10 web startups by June 30, 2011.

Pollenizer’s focus is on:

• Startup, pre-seed web businesses,
• Located in Australia,
• Targeting consumers,
• That are commercially focused (not ad driven),
• That need an experienced co-founder to invest time and money.

What do you get?

• A majority shareholding.
• A co-founder committed for two years.
• A team of 15 in Australia and 55 in India across technology, marketing and business at your disposal.
• Experience building over 80 web businesses, in ten countries, 100m users and $100m in revenue (portfolio).
• A network of experts on call.
• Access to our exclusive founders and friends discussion group.
• Connection to Angel investors in Australia, Europe and USA (we’ve helped raised $5m in seed and angel investments in the past 12 months including Spreets).
• Founder minimal viable income (in certain cases)

What does Pollenizer get?

• 20% shareholding if you contribute some money.
• 40% shareholding if you do not have any money.

Why Pollenizer?

• We have a strong, committed team.
• We have a reputation for integrity, action and results.
• We are uniquely positioned between technology, entrepreneurialism and investment.
• Our companies have already employed over 100 people.
• We have made more than 14 investments, many outlined in our startup portfolio.

What is the process?

1. Starting Up

• You come to a Startup Bootcamp. Held every few months.
• You propose a partnership.
• Pollenizer conducts basic due diligence on you and the business.
• We sign an agreement and are co-founders for two years. (It’s all ‘we’ from here.)

2. Customer Development

• We continue customer discovery and validation until confident.
• We build out a minimal viable product and keep iterating until traction.
• We get the company and ourselves investor ready, including pitch training.
• We pitch the company until we raise capital from the right investors.

3. Growth

• We put the team in place to grow the business towards profit.
• Pollenizer transitions into advisory roles if required.
• Exit or return on investment options are pursued.

Next Steps

If you’d like to talk to Pollenizer about being a co-founder in your next web business, come to a bootcamp or contact us here.

If you’d like to invest in some of our web businesses, please contact us here.

Read the media release below for more info:

Group buying site Spreets receives $2 million investment and joins forces with brandsExclusive in new billion dollar industry

Australia’s first group buying site Spreets (www.spreets.com.au) has received $2 million in funding, with backing from two major European investors, Klaus Hommels and Oliver Jung.

Hommels, whose investments include Facebook and Skype, and Jung are currently concentrating their efforts on group buying sites around the world.

This new type of venture uses the power of social networks to offer significant discounts to consumers, while promoting local businesses. National deals start today with an offer from hip noodle-house Wagamama. Buy a $7 Spreets voucher and get $20 to spend in the restaurants. Groupon (www.groupon.com) in the USA is the world industry leader, valued at more than $1 billion after just 18 months.

Leading Spreets are some of Australia’s most respected entrepreneurs, Dean McEvoy, Phil Morle and Justus Hammer. McEvoy’s first business, Booking Angel (www.bookingangel.com), a restaurant booking system, was voted #7 in the BRW top100 web 2.0 businesses.

Previously CTO of music-sharing site Kazaa, Morle is now director of web venture incubator, Pollenizer (www.pollenizer.com). Pollenizer is renowned for its ability to bring focus to ideas and help develop them into successful businesses.

Online marketing expert Justus Hammer, who helped build GetPrice (www.getprice.com.au) into Australia’s leading shopping comparison site, gave up a senior position at Google to join the Spreets team. “I called Google up on what was meant to be my first day and told them I had a better offer. Spreets is a once in a lifetime opportunity”

Today, Spreets launches with a new design and announces an ongoing partnership with shopping club brandsExclusive (www.brandsexclusive.com.au). brandsExclusive’s 350,000+ active members quickly benefit with instant access to Spreets offers nationwide. “We offer premium fashion and lifestyle products at up to 70% off,” says founder Daniel Jarosch. “So when we came across Spreets we knew it was the perfect fit”.

Spreets has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, with plans to open in Perth already underway. “In this competitive and fast-growing space we’re not just about daily deals, we’re about helping busy people discover things they never knew they loved,” says McEvoy.

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99dresses.com is a peer-to-peer clothing business which provides the tools for sharing high quality clothes. The best person to tell you all about it is Nikki herself:

We are starting to peel back the covers this week and calling on ‘all womankind’ to sign up and take the first step to liberating their wardrobe.

www.99dresses.com

We’re now looking for passionate individuals to join the team in Trivandrum, Kerala. Are you a Javascript junkie or a Ruby on Rails diehard. You may love product design or be the best system architect that is seeking new challenges. We work across the spectrum of web business building and continue to hone and improve our agile processes.

One day you could be working with a large organisation like the BBC and the next with a founder of a new company with a very small budget who wants the minimum viable product for their idea in a matter of a few weeks. You’ll be working with a results oriented team and must love growth and change.

What are we looking for.

• Self starters
• Passion for all things web
• Hardcore development skills
• Entrepreneurial Attitude
• At least 3 years of experience in your field

Specific positions we are hiring for include.

• Ruby on Rails developers
• Zend PHP developers
• CSS/HTML and JS developers
• iPhone developers
• QA specialists with a passion for TDD
• System Admin Gurus with skills in AWS and/or CI

Click here to Apply

And what a team? Pollenizer is in some amazing company here. A fantastic group which really highlights the real strength, and not just potential of the Australian startup community.

• Simon Baker (Founder, Classified Adventures)
• Bill Bartee (General Partner, Southern Cross Ventures)
• Mike Cannon-Brookes (Co-Founder, Atlassian)
• Matt Dickinson (Co-Founder, iMega)
• Scott Farquhar (Co-Founder, Atlassian)
• Adrian Giles (Executive Chairman WebFirm, Founder Hitwise)
• Chris Hitchen (Co-Founder, GetPrice.com.au)
• Bart Jellema (Co-Founder, Tjoos)
• David Jones (Co-Founder, ThreatMetrix)
• Alan Jones (Founder, DoingWords)
• Ryan Junee (Co-Founder, Ominisio)
• Phil Morle and Mick Liubinskas (Co-Founders, Pollenizer)
• Paul McCarney (Co-Founder, Quotify)
• Dean McEvoy (Co-Founder, Spreets)
• Geoff McQueen (Founder, Hiive Systems)
• Luke Metcalfe (Founder, Rapid Intelligence)
• Jared Oken (Co-Founder, GetPrice.com.au)
• Niki Scevak (Founder, Homethinking)
• Phaedon Stough (Managing Partner, MitchelLake)
• Adrian Vanzyl (ex CTO Looksmart, ex CTO Sausage Software)
• Rami Weiss (Founder, Boomerater)

Nice coverage by Renai on Delimeter and picked up by Hacker News

To clarify, Pollenizer will still be running startup bootcamps and investing in startups directly. StartMate is a different program, aimed fairly and squarely and developer based founders.

A big, big round of applause must go to Niki who picked this up and ran with it. Chris Hitchen, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Niki and I were all talking about it for a while, but Niki got off his arse and just got it done. Which suits the name well.

“I’ve got an idea, what should I do?”

“Just start mate.”

If you’d like to be a part of it, apply here.