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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...

2010 Pollenizer Review

What an amazing year we’ve had at Pollenizer! Babies born, dresses worn, new team members, bootcamps, founders, began Pollenizer Ventures…. Fantastic! Here’s a few ways we’ve contributed to the economy in the past year… Number of jobs...

Email: I Hated Your Startup Talk

I’m pretty busy right now, but when this subject line hit my inbox, I had to open it; I hated listening to your talk at SydStart Here is what it said; Hi Mick, My name is Kevin Lippy and I founded a company called Brokepacker.com, a booking engine for...

Project/Product Manager position at Pollenizer

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...

Why Are Barcamps Important?

Short version: Barcamps are awesome because everyone sets the agenda and participates, not just a small group that the organisers have picked. So go to BarCamp Sydney 5 this Saturday, June 27th, 2009. Long version Recently I attended the Future Summit event in...