Pollenizer: Building and Investing In Australian Web Startups

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, [...]

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

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 or reading a tagline, but real engagement and commitment takes time. Same [...]

Are you keen to mix up your work space? Sick of the same old lunch place? Come on down to Pollenizer’s Sydney office in Surry Hills for our first ever Jelly! What’s a Jelly? A Jelly is when people come together to share an office for a day. We’re providing the desks, wireless internet and [...]

Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off in Sydney this week from 16 until 22 November. The week is a worldwide initiative to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. Events throughout the week provide useful getting-started information and networking opportunities for innovators and aspiring entrepreneurs.       If you have even a passing interest then I recommend checking out [...]

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 – and combines it with tornado strength passion. Don’t miss it. I’ll try [...]

Attention Seedcamp week finalists – Pollenizer and over 300 mentors look forward to meeting you next week in London!

A friend and ex-colleague has just started in a new role building a team to run social media for the Obama administration. One of their most interesting initiatives is to ask the community to contribute questions to an online town hall in the US tomorrow. So far, 41,306 people have asked 42,126 questions and cast [...]

I’ve been involved with the idea of ‘data portability’ for a while now. Data Portability is the principle that data on the web should be easy to securely move around by those that have the rights to do so. At Ad:tech09 in Sydney I participated in a panel discussion with Ross Dawson, Chris Saad and [...]