by Nicola Farrell | Dec 6, 2016 | For Entrepreneurs, Insights
One of the first things I learned working at Pollenizer was to ‘sell before you build’. Years on, old habits die hard. The process of inventing while selling, is nothing short of an art. Being resourceful, while demonstrating value you are yet to create. It’s...
by Phil Morle | Jul 14, 2011 | Code, Pitching
We have been working on a simple Ruby on Rails application to allow incoming founders to pitch to us and our friends at Innovation Bay. Its a bit of a side project for us but we have a working, simple version that we thought other incubators and investors might find...
by Phil Morle | Feb 7, 2011 | Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Jul 8, 2010 | Startup Science
A short story about the difference between belief and experience to encourage developers to get out of their comfy chairs and go and talk to your customers. At Lean Startup Circle Sydney, a number of the people were concerned about having to go talk to customers as a...
by Phil Morle | Mar 5, 2010 | Pollenizer News
UPDATE: The March Workshop is sold out, so here is the April Web Focus Workshop registration details. I’m running a Web Business Focus workshop for $80 on March 17. I’ve done more than 35 focus workshops for clients over the past two years and I love doing...
by Phil Morle | Sep 24, 2009 | Startup Science
Entrepreneurs think differently. Entrepreneurs build stuff in their obsessive daily quest to find value. They invent things, create companies, generate jobs. I love it, not only because it is good for our world to have lots of people thinking this way, but because it...