by Phil Morle | Nov 20, 2012 | Opinion, Uncategorized
Here’s a SoundCloud recording of an interview this afternoon with our own Zach Kitschke on Eagle Waves with Mat Beeche of Shoestring Media and Shona Mackin of Social Face on the findings from this week’s research report Silicon Beach: a study of the...
by Phil Morle | Nov 20, 2012 | Opinion, 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 released today by From Little Things — Silicon Beach: a study of the...
by Phil Morle | Nov 12, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
What would happen if you treated apps as products — as though they were books, CDs or toys — instead of businesses, and built a company to publish them; like a record company does for music, or a publisher does for books? You’d end with something that looks very...
by Phil Morle | Nov 6, 2012 | Resources, Uncategorized
It’s become an annual undertaking — each year Andrew Stead, Director of Business Development at Sydney-based incubator ATP Innovations — pieces together an overview of the state of investment in Australia for investors and founders. He’s just completed a...
by Phil Morle | Oct 24, 2012 | Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
There seems to be a wave of startups allowing people to customise purchases; Shoes of Prey do it for shoes, Evolvex for furniture and JellyBeanBikes for two-wheeled transport. But providing custom products can be challenging, particularly when it comes to the...
by Phil Morle | Oct 5, 2012 | Resources, Startup Profiles, Uncategorized
As CEO and co-founder of GetListed, a social recruitment website that works on personal recommendations, Bosco Tan found himself in the interesting position of running a startup that wasn’t his. Tan says the lessons learnt while at the helm of GetListed, a joint...
by Phil Morle | Jul 3, 2012 | Startup Science
During my 11 years working in the Mobile industry (1993-2004), I was amazed at the rapid speed in which mobile handset technology evolved. I fondly recall the first time my boss at Optus gave me my first mobile. It was an Ericsson GH197, a big old thing with an aerial...
by Phil Morle | Jun 28, 2012 | Pollenizer News
We are on the hunt for awesome startup CEOs to work with of our pods (lean startup teams). What this means is that Pollenizer is looking for high calibre individuals who would be interested in exploring opportunities to partner with us on a new venture as a...
by Phil Morle | Jun 13, 2012 | Startup Science
To boost the amount of great failure in order to embrace the learnings and explodify the successes, we came up with the following hashtag; #flearn Of course it’s a combination of Fail plus Learn. Simple. Short. Brilliant. Brief history; Australia doesn’t...
by Phil Morle | May 22, 2012 | Capital Raising, Startup Finops
I decided to get into Angel investing because I believe that the next best thing to being the founder of a successful business, is to be an investor in a successful business. I’m not the sort of person who is likely to lock myself in a room and spend hours...
by Phil Morle | Feb 28, 2012 | Annual Reviews, Pollenizer News
Today, 29 February, 2012 – is the four year anniversary of the incorporation of Pollenizer Pty Ltd. Woohoo!!!! Yes, we were incorporated on a leap year just to be even more different. Wow, four years. Four big years. So much has happened I couldn’t...
by Phil Morle | Sep 30, 2011 | Startup Science
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....
