Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

Pollenizer is looking to hire a Junior / Mid-weight Project/Product Manager. Woohoo! Is that person you? See below. The lucky winner will have to do stuff like: Spend half of his/her day in Jira and/or wire framing cool products Spend the other half in meetings and Skype calls / chats Spend the third half doing [...]

One of the best thing about the geeky, propellor head Product and Engineering team is that they aren’t just geeks. They’re entrepreneurs, which of course makes them, as Phil’s new hoodie states, Entreprenerds. This of course is crucial for when you want to start a web business, as you don’t want pure tech guys who [...]

It’s fun and challenging working with clients in different time zones, so it is good for the relationship when you can catch up in person. Samantha Howe (pictured) from Blurb visited Sydney in March to spend time with the Pollenizer Blurboz team; attend Blurb sponsored events; and catch-up with Blurb’s partners. I interviewed Samantha Howe, [...]

My colleague Mauricio and I were confronted with a very practical problem yesterday that left us thinking quite a bit about user-centered design. We are in Barcelona working at a client site and on the way back to our company apartment, we got a bit distracted talking about software and, as we walked down the [...]

A quick video from me on the (big, big, big) difference between a product that actually functions and a business that really works. Roughly; Getting the product to ‘function’ means you can use it. Getting the business to ‘work’ means that you optimise it so that it creates lots of value. And my rough guide [...]

I’ve been a web product manager for what is beginning to feel like a long time, perhaps somewhere in that history there are some helpful experiences I can share with other product managers. Product management consultancy Brainmates was kind enough to invite me over to lead their second “Product Talks” event next week. Product Talks [...]

You remember the future we were promised, right? It had flying cars, robotic housemaids, one-piece shiny suits and meals in convenient pill form. We don’t live in that future because the people planning utopia fell in love with their own beliefs about what consumers wanted. They missed the gross and subtle cues that consumers use [...]

Earlier today, I received this picture (click on the thumbnail since it’s quite large and needs to be seen in its full splendor) from Xavier, a friend that’s a practicing Agile Coach and PM in Belgium. Xavier has just started a fantastic blog on visual management for agile teams, you should definitely check the first [...]

Sometimes in the startup phase of a business, you’ll wrestle with the big issues for months at a time until you think you’ve nailed them. You feel like you’ve finally solved one of the great problems of our time. You get the big issues implemented in your front-end, announce it to your users, and sit [...]

Recently on a flight, I befriended a young family with a baby and a 3 year old. At Mogeneration we have been working on a kids game called Moo Shake (now in the app store) that makes a bunch of crazy animal sounds. So I decided to let the young girl test it. She loved [...]