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 [...]
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 difference from other venture firms is that Pollenizer joins as a co-founder, [...]
We’re happy to announce that Dealised have raised $5.3m From Singtel Innov8 and Yuuwa Big congrats to the Dealised team in Pollenizer for an amazing year. From starting the company to growing some great customers and now closing this funding from excellent investors, it’s a hard job, done well. Hat’s off to Oliver, Andy, Serdar, Kevin, [...]
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, [...]
For most bootstrapped startups cash for a bookkeeper is often considered a luxury rather than a necessity and often only implemented when the business is well underway and the founder no longer has the time to maintain spreadsheets and a shoebox full of receipts. Working with Pollenizer will give you access to the Finance and [...]
The Pollenizer team are very proud to announce that our very first portfolio company ever has secured a nice chunk of funding and, more importantly, some great board members. Big congrats to our old office mates Tom, Keith, Justin and the rest of the crew. The official release: Mogeneration, a leading Digital publishing provider, announced [...]
Hip hip hooray! Happy Birthday To Us It’s been three years since Pollenizer began (well kind of, we were incorporated on the 29th of February). What an amazing journey it’s been for not only us, but our clients, co-founders and partners, friends, family and the whole Sydney startup scene. Without these groups, we not have [...]
Here is a set of slides we use at Bootcamp, Startmate and other forums when we’re working with new startups. The idea is to be able to quickly and succinctly tell the full story of the business without thinking about it too much. You get 5 seconds per slide. Just finish the end of the [...]
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 benevolent dictatorship. Daily flexibility and arrogant stubbornness. Unending patience and constant change. Respect of [...]
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 [...]
