Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

If you haven’t played with word cloud creation tool Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg, you should! You can create pretty pictures out of your website or blog’s content. Wordle grabs all the words on the page or website you are ‘wordling’ and creates cool visual models or infographics which you can customise (typface, colours, layout and [...]

More often than not, we have a lot on our plates. Usually when this happens, it’s very easy to be tempted by distractions. I found this blog post by Darren (which is aimed at bloggers, but applicable to web businesses) at problogger.net truthful and interesting. It can be difficult to remain focused when you’re constantly [...]

I’ve been working with the Photo Art team in the last two weeks on their new team blog called Photographic Art World. It’s been an interesting exercise and a reminder about the personality of a blogger. Basically, I grabbed the domain, added WordPress, grabbed a theme, added a few plugins and customised it. A few [...]

It’s easy to get journalists to write about you; it’s just hard to control what they write. We met with a startup CEO recently to take a brief on marketing. The conversation turned to which marketing tools they were currently using and which they had plans to use. As a PR person and journalist in [...]

I met up with Renai Lemai recently to talk about the startup community in Sydney and he was very enthusiastic about doing more, writing more and getting amongst it. We had a bunch of ideas, including them hosting an Officially Friday, but one that we can start on now is getting some coverage for startups [...]

Since this is about the 100th blog started by Phil and I, I think it’s worth saying what this is about and what’s going here. This is the Pollenizer Blog, and it’s mainly going to be for Pollenizer specific news. New people joining the team, new companies we’re working with, big news in those companies, [...]