by Phil Morle | Oct 13, 2011 | Startup Science
Hi! My name is Pierre, and I’m a domain junky. I own close to a hundred domain names and I haven’t bought one in over a week! *cue for clapping* Finding a good domain name is a real challenge. You’ll need a lot of creative juice to come up with...
by Phil Morle | Oct 6, 2010 | Startup Science
At Pollenizer, we’re building new web products all the time and we need people to test these and help us make them better. If you would like to try new consumer products still under development then we’d love to hear from you. You can register your...
by Phil Morle | Aug 31, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Sometime ago I wrote a blog post advertising a Project/Product manager position open at Pollenizer. I received a flood of applications, some good ones, some bad ones as you can expect. Today I received a nice email from James Goldie with this video attached: Now...
by Phil Morle | Jul 28, 2010 | Pollenizer News
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...
by Phil Morle | Jun 7, 2010 | Pollenizer News
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...
by Phil Morle | Apr 12, 2010 | Pollenizer News
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...
by Phil Morle | Jan 27, 2010 | Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Jun 17, 2009 | Scaling Your Business, Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | May 7, 2009 | Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Mar 17, 2009 | Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Feb 18, 2009 | Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Feb 16, 2009 | Startup Science
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...