by Phil Morle | Feb 5, 2013 | Startup Science, Uncategorized
<img src=”http://pollenizer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/163618769-300×170.jpg” alt=”163618769″ width=”300″ height=”170″ class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-11033″ / Thomas Pastro, Tom Rothwell...
by Phil Morle | Jan 16, 2013 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
There’s a handwritten note next to Colette Grgic’s bed listing her reasons for closing the marketplace she had built for travel experiences, Arribaa. Arribaa’s founders, Colette Grgic, husband Vinko and Roger Barnes announced in a pre-Christmas blog...
by Phil Morle | Dec 20, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Earlier this week, FLT punched out a piece grouching about the lack of comprehensive data on the Australian startup ecosystem. Despite a greater focus on using data in startups, investors and entrepreneurs have so far lacked the information necessary to make informed...
by Phil Morle | Dec 3, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Australian online restaurant booking service Dimmi has announced a new partnership with Urbanspoon, the international restaurant review and recommendation service. The partnership will provide Urbanspoon with access to the 2,500 restaurants in the Dimmi database. For...
by Phil Morle | Nov 2, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Just one week after launching on Kickstarter, LIFX, the Melbourne-based company co-founded by Andrew Birt had raised more than $1.3 million to produce an initial production round. That solves some problems, and introduces others. LIFX is a Wi-Fi enabled LED light...
by Phil Morle | Oct 26, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Speak with Long Zheng and Ed Hooper and you realise they’re the kind of tech entrepreneur with hundreds of ideas, and the ability to quickly bring them to life. They’re the kind of startup founder that put us non-techies to shame. Zheng and Hooper are two...
by Phil Morle | Oct 17, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Alvin Singh is a quintessential engineer; he sees problems, and he solves them. After letting his tax slip for the past few years, Singh thought it was time to get on top of things. Excel wouldn’t do. Singh wrote some software which could scan his past bank...
by Phil Morle | Dec 23, 2010 | Pollenizer News
At Pollenizer we love to make our own custom photo books with Blurb. Blurb’s on a mission to make it easy and affordable for anyone to publish a bookstore quality book. This means developing awesome publishing products such as Bookify, a free browser-based...
by Phil Morle | Oct 20, 2010 | Startup Science
A quick, good example of a very focused first target micro-segment is Honestly.com “Previously, access to Unvarnished has been limited to invite-only or professionals from a list of roughly 200 pre-approved tech/tech-related companies.” From Techcrunch. By...