I often get asked what’s the real value of ‘theoretical’ type business planning for a nascent start-up. The question that usually pops up is: why would anyone want to spend time painstakingly planning when circumstances are so uncertain?
Questioning planning is only natural. After all planning takes time, the output is ‘soft’ and generally slows down [...]
UPDATE: The March Workshop is sold out, so here is the April Web Focus Workshop registration details.
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Thinking about new companies finding, nurturing and winning over their first lot of customers and I realise there are a lot of similarities with forming habits.
Patience – it takes time. It doesn’t happen instantly. Somethings do, like a click, or a visit or reading a tagline, but real engagement and commitment takes time. Same [...]
Today is Melbourne Cup day in Australia, well, in Melbourne, but most of Australia gets behind it. The Pollenizer team are pretty flat out, but even we will stop around 3pm this afternoon for a champagne and watch the race.
I thought I’d do a quick video spoof of a race if some of the [...]
‘Sr. Bee meets Sr. Sunflower‘ by robstephaustralia via FlickrImage is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution licence
Some quick thoughts on one of the hardest things to do as an entrepreneur (or intrapreneur) – holding both a big vision and a brutal focus in your mind at the same time. They sound like contradictions and in [...]
Guest blog post by Steve Sammartino from Rentoid. Steve is also hosting a Startup School in Melbourne (Nov 7-8) and Sydney (Nov 21-22). It’s highly recommended by me (Mick) as Steve has great, real experience buildings startups – with success and failures – and combines it with tornado strength passion. Don’t miss it. I’ll try [...]
I was cruising the Demopit at Techcrunch50 and spotted Tim O’Reilly a serious tech veteran and celebrity. I thought I’d stop him and get his thoughts on focus. Of course I’d sure he’d give us sage advice on why they should be brutally focused.
I was wrong.
Tim O’Reilly On Why Startups Need to Explore from Pollenizer [...]
A message to our Sydney-based startup friends. Pollenizer is sponsoring Coming to America event, now on Thursday, October 15, 2009 from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Rich venture environments exist where there is a pool of successful entrepreneurs re-investing back into the kind of businesses that they understand. The guys at Mitchellake are a unique bridge [...]
More pictures on our Flickr and the floor plan here (our space is the “Commercial 1″) :)
Lev 1, 65-67 Foveaux St, Surry Hills
Find us on a map here.
Get a desk, chair, net access, printer, board room, kitchen, whiteboards and high ceilings
Share your office with web business, mobile and creative companies
Rent one to eight desks month [...]
We’re lucky enough to meet a lot of passionate entrepreneurs at Pollenizer and I love it. Exciting ideas, real belief and a twinkle in the eye that says they’re ready to take a risk to make it happen.
I just wish they’d care a little bit more about the story. It would make the listening and [...]
