Can our business afford a bookkeeper?

Blog on May 10th, 2011 No Comments

For most  bootstrapped startups cash for a bookkeeper is often considered a luxury rather than a necessity and often only implemented when the business is well underway and the founder no longer has the time to maintain spreadsheets and a shoebox full of receipts.  Working with Pollenizer will give you access to the Finance and [...]

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Dirty Hacks: Guest Post by David McKinney

Blog on November 2nd, 2010 No Comments

A guest post from David McKinney – CEO/Founder of Jammbox. DIRTY HACKS FOR STARTUP FOUNDERS The aim of the dirty hacks series is to help you launch your startup faster, cheaper & dirtier. Everything is rough, crude, and fast. Just what you need for your startup. Part 1: How to use Facebook to size a [...]

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Getting things done the ProBlogger way

Blog on June 23rd, 2010 No Comments

More often than not, we have a lot on our plates. Usually when this happens, it’s very easy to be tempted by distractions. I found this blog post by Darren (which is aimed at bloggers, but applicable to web businesses) at problogger.net truthful and interesting. It can be difficult to remain focused when you’re constantly [...]

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Give your Lean Startup a Demo Driven Deadline

Blog on April 24th, 2010 No Comments

Focus: If you want to drive yourself to get your minimal product out fast, then give us a date within 6 weeks and you can demo it at the Pollenizer office in front of our team and some of our partners/investors. One of the challenges that we see regularly is people working on startups for [...]

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Pitching to America

Blog on September 11th, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

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Posse: Making Great Burgers Before We Open McDonalds

Blog on April 28th, 2009 No Comments

Over the weekend, we released Posse. Here’s some coverage in the Australian newspaper. The idea came to Posse CEO, Rebekah Campbell, when she was struggling to sell Evermore tickets in Perth. Recruiting the fans to work for the band quickly fixed that problem and planted the seed for a new web business. Here is the [...]

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