My Startup Startup Wife

Blog on September 30th, 2011 1 Comment

I got a plug in a magazine this morning amongst some big names. It’s a great little supporting statement for Pollenizer but I need to give it some context. Firstly, startups are hard work. New, risky, vague, emotional, financial, complex and constantly changing. In the past two weeks we’ve taken some huge steps forward and [...]

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Pollenizer Mentors for Mozilla Web FWD Accelerator

Blog, Promoted on July 8th, 2011 No Comments

How cool is this?! Recently, Mozilla launched a new programme called Web FWD, where  young businesses are invited to spend 4 weeks in the Mozilla San Francisco HQ building their products. They’ll have access to Mozilla-spiked resources and, at the end of four weeks, an MVP ready to launch. Pollenizer’s Phil Morle is a mentor, [...]

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Yahoo!7 Acquires Spreets, A Pollenizer Portfolio Company

Blog on January 20th, 2011 2 Comments

Fantastic news today for the Spreets team, for Yahoo!7, for the Australian technology community and of course the Pollenizer team. Read below for the story, and a few notes from us at the bottom. Yahoo!7 acquires Spreets – leading Australian and New Zealand online Group Buying company SYDNEY, Australia, 20 January, 2011 – Online media [...]

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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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Presenting the Pollenizer Podcast

Blog on June 24th, 2010 8 Comments

We’ve had a few iterations of start-up based podcasts here in Australia, some of which I’ve been involved in, but since there are none that we know of at present, we thought we’d fill in the void with the Pollenizer Podcast. In this first podcast, Phil Morle and I talk about lean start-ups, a term [...]

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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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