Pollenizer is seeking someone to lead, drive and grow our great team of startup marketing, customer development and customer acquisition peeps. What the role is; Leading a team of 4 customer development/marketing people as they work their butts off to start new web businesses. Build processes and systems to more efficiently and effectively get customers [...]
Pollenizer is Australia’s leading start-up creation company. In three years, Pollenizer has made 25 investments, had a ~$40m exit and helped raise $10m+ in investment. Unlike other seed accelerators around the world, Pollenizer is a co-founder and hands on teammate in each start-up they build. Not just an investor or advisor. Pollenizer highlights for 2011 [...]
Pollenizer has raised $500,000 for a seed fund it will use to invest in early stage Australian start-ups. Pollenizer co-founder Mick Liubinskas said he hoped to have invested all the money by June next year, with investments between $10,000 and $100,000. A key difference from other venture firms is that Pollenizer joins as a co-founder, [...]
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. Just finish the end of the [...]
As founders ourselves and working with hundreds of other entrepreneurs, we’ve found there are a lot of conflicting skills, principles and characteristics that it helps to have. Here are a few, add your own. Big vision and brutal focus. Deep empathy and benevolent dictatorship. Daily flexibility and arrogant stubbornness. Unending patience and constant change. Respect of [...]
Fantastic news today for the Spreets team, for Yahoo!7, for the Australian technology community and of course the Pollenizer team. Read below for the story, and a few notes from us at the bottom. Yahoo!7 acquires Spreets – leading Australian and New Zealand online Group Buying company SYDNEY, Australia, 20 January, 2011 – Online media [...]
Pollenizer Ranked Number 38th Fastest Growing Technology Company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010. Sydney, Australia, 14th January 2011 – Pollenizer today announced that it ranked Number 38th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific. Rankings are based [...]
Talking to a founder of a new business they are just exploring right now, we had an interesting thread of conversation. Here is a rough recollection of it; Mick: “There is definitely a vision worth pursuing there, but the fact that we don’t know the first step says to me that we need to do [...]
What an amazing year we’ve had at Pollenizer! Babies born, dresses worn, new team members, bootcamps, founders, began Pollenizer Ventures…. Fantastic! Here’s a few ways we’ve contributed to the economy in the past year… Number of jobs created: 60 Tax paid: Just the right amount. Investments made: 4 totaling $165,000 New companies formed: 8 Highlights [...]
Pollenizer has been named one of Australia’s ‘Coolest’ businesses in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards. Pollenizer has been named a Finalist in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards, a national program developed in 2006 to recognise Australian companies that are doing things differently to bring about positive change. Over 700 aspiring ‘cool [...]
