Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

Photo Credits: BenJTsunami – See original here. From time to time one of our portfolio companies gets to be featured on a prime time TV show (A Current Affair, Today Tonight…). This has obvious benefits for the business in terms of publicity, but it comes at a price for the poor servers that have to [...]

As many of you know, we’ve been helping Spreets get started, so we’re very excited to announce today that Spreets has launched to all Australian capital cities. Read the media release below for more info: Group buying site Spreets receives $2 million investment and joins forces with brandsExclusive in new billion dollar industry Australia’s first [...]

Our community loves to come together to share ideas, network and have fun. Pollenizer loves supporting the community and we love to throw a party when we have friends from our of town visiting. Next week some entrepreneurial folk from Perth are coming to Sydney for some workshops and we’d like to introduce them to [...]

Whilst most of the work week is spent thinking and dreaming about growing web businesses (our own, our clients), there is just enough time to think about other stuff. Just discovered: Industrial design magazine and community, Core77. Here are two fun stories tagged under ‘object-culture’ (you get the drift) to give you a taste  of [...]

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, [...]

Social media enterprise 3eep experienced the depth and breadth of Pollenizer’s expertise in getting its online community SportsPassion off the ground. From technology strategy and implementation to product and market development, the Pollenizer team played an integral part. SportsPassion’s suite of free online community tools allow team managers and teammates to better communicate and collaborate, [...]

Pollenizer’s ability to access in-house expertise to service a broad range of client demands was evident in our work with consumer comparison website Getprice. It also made it the prime and only contender vying for the work. Getprice CEO Chris Hitchen explains why it is important having specific skill areas available for hire within one [...]

Based in Barcelona, Linqia used Pollenizer for a technology assessment, product focus and QA. Linqia defines itself as “The Social Network Marketplace” and connects brands and their agencies with social networks. “As a start-up with limited funding and access to top talent, we were fortunate to cross paths with the Pollenizer team who could offer [...]

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 [...]

UPDATE: The March Workshop is sold out, so here is the April Web Focus Workshop registration details.