by Phil Morle | May 28, 2010 | Pollenizer News
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...
by Phil Morle | Apr 26, 2010 | Pollenizer News
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...
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 | Mar 24, 2010 | Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Mar 24, 2010 | Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Mar 24, 2010 | Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Mar 8, 2010 | Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Mar 5, 2010 | Pollenizer News
UPDATE: The March Workshop is sold out, so here is the April Web Focus Workshop registration details. I’m running a Web Business Focus workshop for $80 on March 17. I’ve done more than 35 focus workshops for clients over the past two years and I love doing...
by Phil Morle | Nov 18, 2009 | Customer Development, Startup Science
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...
by Phil Morle | Nov 3, 2009 | Pollenizer News
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...
by Phil Morle | Oct 23, 2009 | Startup Science
‘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...
by Phil Morle | Oct 20, 2009 | Startup Science
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...