I’ve never actually looked for a simple answer to this question, but it came to me. I don’t even know why I think it answers it, but I’m sure it does. Here it is. It’s beautiful. Even the way it came to me was beautiful. One of my oldest friends in the world who occasionally [...]
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a ‘seat of my pants’ kind of guy in a ‘rocket powered rollercoaster’ kind of job. Because of that, and often in spite of that, I have to work very hard to make sure that I’m driving the direction I want. It doesn’t work every day, but [...]
At Pollenizer we love to make our own custom photo books with Blurb. Blurb’s on a mission to make it easy and affordable for anyone to publish a bookstore quality book. This means developing awesome publishing products such as Bookify, a free browser-based photo book-making tool by Blurb. With this tool at hand, you can [...]
Sometime ago I wrote a blog post advertising a Project/Product manager position open at Pollenizer. I received a flood of applications, some good ones, some bad ones as you can expect. Today I received a nice email from James Goldie with this video attached: Now that’s what I’m talking about! Needless to say that we [...]
Want to take one year off work but can not convince your business partner? Just show them this video from Stefan Sagmeister about the need for ‘workcation’. Perhaps a day or two off each month for research would be more realistic?
Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard. Great video clip from Entourage here sent to me by Lesley-Ann which now sits along side Coffee is for Closers amongst my regular watching playlist in Youtube. It’s like a mini-seminar. Turtle: “I’ve got a great idea.” Ari: Hits a stack of scripts. “So do all these idiots. Can [...]
Ever wondered how people turn their personal online passions into profit? Todd Selby did it by convincing big businesses to think outside the norm of how they could use his images and popularity to market their products. Listen to how he did it here: Video courtesy of Fora.tv
OK, these were filmed on Thursday as well as Friday but they are being posted Friday. Pierre showing us Chartbeat, though it wasn’t exactly live during this video: Steven Ringo and the power of deadlines for new startups and being lean: The Mogeneration guys and some thoughts on the upcoming Apple iPad; Valerie Khoo talks [...]
It’s been yet another big week at Pollenizer and finished with a solid Friday. We’ve had a Jelly here with some good peeps, run our first trial webinar for Live In Australia, and pushing along a bunch of other great projects. The guys give me their thoughts on what happened at the Jelly today: Nikki [...]
