by Phil Morle | Mar 1, 2013 | Annual Reviews, Pollenizer News, Uncategorized
Today Pollenizer turns 5 and it’s been one crazy ride. We talk a lot about what we’ve done and what we’ve achieved. I got asked last night why we started Pollenizer and it’s a great question and I’d like to share some thoughts on my...
by Phil Morle | Feb 25, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
First, if you’ve found your way from FromLittleThings.co to FLTBTG.com, congratulations! It’s been a week or so since CrazyDomains messed up its relationship with its upstream supplier of .co domains and our FromLittleThings.co domain went off the air, along with the...
by Phil Morle | Feb 20, 2013 | Pitching, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
Successful startup founder and commentator Tyler Crowley will next week share the knowledge he’s gained helping hundreds of early-stage companies polish their pitches for events including the TechCrunch and LAUNCH conferences with some of Australia’s most promising...
by Phil Morle | Feb 13, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
The Sydney arm of the global Founder Institute startup accelerator and network is calling for applications for its upcoming program, which steps founders through the process of developing a startup; finding a market, testing a business model, and areas such as...
by Phil Morle | Feb 12, 2013 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Pollenizer’s Mick Liubinskas is agitating for change to the way the Australian Tax Office treats ESOPs (Employee Share Option Plans). Deloitte and Norton Rose are on the case, and it’s one of the issues you’ve told us you’d like to see worked...
by Phil Morle | Feb 9, 2013 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Enter Sydney’s Fishburners co-working space from peak-hour Harris Street any night of the week, and it seems there’s another networking event or startup talk. Head to ATP, Pollenizer, BlueChilli, or a handful of Sydney’s pubs and you’ll find...
by Phil Morle | Feb 7, 2013 | Startup Science, Uncategorized
At Google Sudo event last night we had a solid panel with Niki Scevak from Startmate, Kim Heras from Pushstart and nicely moderated by Alan Noble. Key messages, though none of these should be a surprise to you all; People – the idea, business and everything will...
by Phil Morle | Jan 15, 2013 | Startmate 2013, Uncategorized
FLT will be covering the 2013 Startmate accelerator program, which aims to help early-stage companies become enduring internet companies. Here, we introduce Michael Dijkstra and Kevin Nguyen of Storyberg. Sydney-siders Michael Dijkstra and Kevin Nguyen are no...
by Phil Morle | Jan 9, 2013 | Resources, Uncategorized
New survey data from Perth-based research startup Floq shows a startup’s chance at raising investment may be influenced by the number of mentors, advisors or investors it has, and where its founders decide to work. The Startup Nation survey of close to 400...
by Phil Morle | Dec 17, 2012 | Annual Reviews, Pollenizer News, Uncategorized
It’s been another huge year. Pollenizer created 6 new businesses, turned 4 years old, learned, flearned, rebranded, opened an office in Southeast Asia, established a training school and published a book! Pollenizer’s 2012 Timeline – The Lean Version...
by Phil Morle | Dec 14, 2012 | Opinion, Uncategorized
One of our goals in publishing FLT is to encourage founders to contribute — agree, disagree, expand on topics, share stories and tell us what we could be doing better to help foster the local tech startup community. It’s still early days, so there hasn’t...
by Phil Morle | Nov 23, 2012 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events, Uncategorized
Only 4.8% of Australian technology startups grow into successful, global companies whereas many more Silicon Valley (8%) and New York (6.7%) based startups reach scale, according to new research, Silicon Beach: a study of the Australian Startup Ecosystem, released...
