Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

Pollenizer was approached Chris Gray in June to run a focus workshop for a web business Chris had founded (working title ‘Pledgespace’). In the first half of the 4 hour workshop we worked on customer discovery (micro-segments, customer values, creating 10 X value). We iterated on this process to create a focused customer development plan. [...]

As many of you know, we’ve been helping Spreets get started, so we’re very excited to announce today that Spreets has launched to all Australian capital cities. 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 [...]

Our community loves to come together to share ideas, network and have fun. Pollenizer loves supporting the community and we love to throw a party when we have friends from our of town visiting. Next week some entrepreneurial folk from Perth are coming to Sydney for some workshops and we’d like to introduce them to [...]

Social media enterprise 3eep experienced the depth and breadth of Pollenizer’s expertise in getting its online community SportsPassion off the ground. From technology strategy and implementation to product and market development, the Pollenizer team played an integral part. SportsPassion’s suite of free online community tools allow team managers and teammates to better communicate and collaborate, [...]

Pollenizer’s ability to access in-house expertise to service a broad range of client demands was evident in our work with consumer comparison website Getprice. It also made it the prime and only contender vying for the work. Getprice CEO Chris Hitchen explains why it is important having specific skill areas available for hire within one [...]

Photo by Richard Giles – See on Flickr World-renowned for its buzzing nightlife, dazzling ice sculptures, and exotic street fair*, now the City of Perth can add one more line to its list of solid attractions – The Edge of the Web conference. Take a couple of hundred international geeks, add several dozen speakers, re-searchers [...]

Today is Melbourne Cup day in Australia, well, in Melbourne, but most of Australia gets behind it. The Pollenizer team are pretty flat out, but even we will stop around 3pm this afternoon for a champagne and watch the race. I thought I’d do a quick video spoof of a race if some of the [...]

I’ve been fortunate enough to be invited to attend Future Summit in Melbourne over the next two days. It’s exciting, imposing and slightly intimidating, and I’m proud to be a part of it. Future Summit is associated with the Davos World Economic Forum, granting significant weight to it’s purpose. From it’s website, it sets out [...]

We are constantly on the look out for great people to join our team and right now we have some immediate needs described below. Let us know if you are interested or forward this post to your network. India We are looking for engineers to join our team in Trivandrum, India. We are especially interested [...]

At another interesting Innovation Bay dinner last night someone raised Tall Poppy again. She is a New Yorker who know lives here and wants to start a business. She raised Tall Poppy in a tone that said ‘well, I hate to say it, but….’. The funny thing about Tall Poppy syndrome is that it’s about [...]