Focus: Love your ducky or love your sax?

Blog on July 29th, 2011 No Comments

(Yes, this is the way I think) I had a flashback to this video that my brother and I danced to when I was about 4. (It’s a great video, watch the whole thing – some great cameos including Paul Simon and Danny Devito) You can’t do two wonderful things at once. I love my [...]

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StageBitz joins the Pollenizer Portfolio

Blog, Portfolio, Web Strategy on March 23rd, 2011 No Comments

StageBitz is the latest promising Australian startup to join Pollenizer’s growing venture portfolio. This early-stage company is currently seeking strategic partners who can make a valuable contribution to the business through capital investment and expertise. StageBitz is a cloud-based web app that makes prop management a breeze for stage, film and TV production professionals. The [...]

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How I plan out my week

Videos on January 26th, 2011 1 Comment

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a ‘seat of my pants’ kind of guy in a ‘rocket powered rollercoaster’ kind of job. Because of that, and often in spite of that, I have to work very hard to make sure that I’m driving the direction I want. It doesn’t work every day, but [...]

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Make a Photo Book in Six Minutes

Blog, Videos on December 23rd, 2010 No Comments

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 asĀ  Bookify, a free browser-based photo book-making tool by Blurb. With this tool at hand, you can [...]

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Pollenizer: Investing in 10 Web Startups This Year

Blog, Promoted on August 24th, 2010 5 Comments

Pollenizer wants to be a co-founder of your next web business. Our goal: Invest our team and money in 10 web startups by June 30, 2011. Pollenizer’s focus is on: Startup, idea-stage web businesses, In Australia, Targeting consumers, Commercially focused, With a committed founder, with industry experience, That need an experienced co-founder to invest time [...]

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Mick’s Trip: USA and Spain

Blog on September 4th, 2008 No Comments

I’m heading off this Saturday for a business/holiday. TechCrunch 50 in San Francisco, some work in New York, some work in Barcelona and some not-work in the rest of Spain and maybe Andorra. Mick’s Travel Plans If you’re around, let me know.

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About this blog

Blog on July 1st, 2008 No Comments

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, [...]

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