by Phil Morle | Feb 12, 2013 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Pollenizer’s Mick Liubinskas is agitating for change to the way the Australian Tax Office treats ESOPs (Employee Share Option Plans). Deloitte and Norton Rose are on the case, and it’s one of the issues you’ve told us you’d like to see worked...
by Phil Morle | Nov 23, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
In 2008, Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, put forward a list of ideas the startup incubator would like to fund — he’d previously been hesitant to do so, because he knew there’d be a flood of startups come forward offering exactly what was suggested....
by Phil Morle | Nov 23, 2012 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Uncategorized
Only 4.8% of Australian technology startups grow into successful, global companies whereas many more Silicon Valley (8%) and New York (6.7%) based startups reach scale, according to new research, Silicon Beach: a study of the Australian Startup Ecosystem, released...
by Phil Morle | Sep 26, 2011 | Pollenizer News
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...