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Numbers that matter

Quick post – as a startup there are hundreds of numbers you can look at but few matter. Visits Page views Registered users These typically aren’t worth zip by themselves. When I want to splash the hot chilli sauce of reality on my face to get the brutal...

The many ‘ands’ of a startup founder

As founders ourselves and working with hundreds of other entrepreneurs, we’ve found there are a lot of conflicting skills, principles and characteristics that it helps to have. Here are a few, add your own. Big vision and brutal focus. Deep empathy and...

Anthill’s Cool Company Awards (2010)

Pollenizer has been named one of Australia’s ‘Coolest’ businesses in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards. Pollenizer has been named a Finalist in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards, a national program developed in 2006 to recognise...

It will go viral

The Pollenizer team is constantly exposed to a flux of new entrepreneurs with web-businesses ideas. This stream comes to us either via our Bootcamp sessions, Pitches rounds, Investors network or more broadly via the various social media tools our antennae can reach....

Perth Startup Bootcamp: Oct 2010

22 people, 17 startups, a big fat bucket of focus and a great day. Last Friday I was in Perth to run our first Bootcamp there. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. It turned out to be fantastic. Here are some highlights; 17 startups – how fantastic is that....

Product Beta Testing

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...

Big Day for Spreets

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...