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 26, 2013 | Resources, Uncategorized
We knew from day one that the mission for FLT needed to be two-fold, both covering and shaping the agenda for Australian startup companies. While that means we’ve spent a lot of time talking to and covering individual companies perhaps the most useful role we...
by Phil Morle | Feb 26, 2013 | Startup Science, Uncategorized
Great video by Steve Jobs on Focus. Focus is not about what you say yes to, it’s about what you say no to. Read more about our thoughts in our book Startup Focus. People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s...
by Phil Morle | Feb 25, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
First, if you’ve found your way from FromLittleThings.co to FLTBTG.com, congratulations! It’s been a week or so since CrazyDomains messed up its relationship with its upstream supplier of .co domains and our FromLittleThings.co domain went off the air, along with the...
by Phil Morle | Feb 22, 2013 | Startup Science, Uncategorized
The following is a list of words and phrases that you can use when trying to fit in with the startup community: Product Roadmap Tracking bootstrapping lean startup lean canvas iterate product/market fit problem/solution fit MVP runway slide deck low-burn startup...
by Phil Morle | Feb 21, 2013 | Startup Science, Uncategorized
Jason Calacanis just posted about Sequoia’s most illuminating question to entrepreneurs. Why now? I am pitching my heart out for Pollenizer these days and enjoying the opportunity to try the different ways to think about what we do. The ‘Why Now?’...
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 20, 2013 | Oomph, Portfolio Company News, Uncategorized
Pollenizer has teamed up with the team at Oomph again, to present a course on Designing and Publishing iPad Apps. The last session was so successful, we’ve got the team back in to present their design workshop. The classes are limited to 20, and give those in...
by Phil Morle | Feb 19, 2013 | Startup Science, Uncategorized
Teleworking is set to be a mainstay of the future. We can sleep in, work in our pyjamas in the comfort of our home, spend more time with our family, avoid the daily commute, etc. all thanks to teleworking. However, I was reading an article in the BRW which discussed...
by Phil Morle | Feb 18, 2013 | Enterprise Incubation, Uncategorized
It looks like I’m a few days late to proclaim 2013 the year for Southeast Asia startups. Props to my old colleague Michael Smith and Asia’s best tech writer Jon Russell for nailing that, and yes of course I agree wholeheartedly. That’s why...
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...
