by Phil Morle | Jul 12, 2012 | Pollenizer News
Eric Ries says; “Entrepreneurs are everywhere. You don’t have to work in a garage to be in a startup.” He’s right, but they did work in a garage last night when we premiered Pollenizer Academy. With a background in theatre, Pollenizer Co-Founder, Phil Morle, was...
by Phil Morle | Jul 11, 2012 | Australia, Startup Ecosystems & Events
A key insight out of From Little Things: DNA of a Startup was the following: Startups evolve through discreet stages (discovery > validation > efficiency > scale) Startups that skip a stage are likely to fail Australian businesses manage to raise capital...
by Phil Morle | Jul 10, 2012 | Pollenizer News
Third week of Pollenizer started with a move to the Business Development and Marketing aspect of Pollenizer, which is aimed at pushing the Pollenizer brand to the world. With the Pollenizer Academy kicking off in a matter of days, there was a fair bit to do for Nicola...
by Phil Morle | Jul 10, 2012 | Pollenizer News
My second week at Pollenizer has revolved around the theme of induction, something particularly relevant given we have just onboarded a new employee this week – Humphrey. I must admit induction is not as interesting as recruitment and the number of processes and...
by Phil Morle | Jul 10, 2012 | Pollenizer News
Third week running in Pollenizer and I am continually learning while doing. I end up coming to work finding a project that keeps transforming and materializing to something pretty amazing. This week I was researching the Australian recruiting market, revising the pro...
by Phil Morle | Jul 8, 2012 | Pollenizer News
Is building an online community important to your start-up or business? Are you a Community Manager or community enthusiast who wants to connect with other Community Managers, share resources and best practices, soak up information and have brain waves whilst having...
by Phil Morle | Jul 5, 2012 | Pollenizer News
A bunch of interesting/ entertaining shared links (shlinks) from the last few weeks at Pollenizer for your reading pleasure. Happy shlinking. Current start-up/ VC climate in Australia: Is Surry Hills becoming the new Silicon Valley? Mahesh Sharma thinks so:...
by Phil Morle | Jul 4, 2012 | Pollenizer News
Before arriving at Pollenizer, I had done some research on Mick Liubinskas (and Phil Morle) for a short presentation we had to give for the university, and I was semi-expecting a pair of new-age tech-renegades since their last gig at Kazaa involved police raids and a...
by Phil Morle | Jul 3, 2012 | Pollenizer News
When I first started at Pollenizer, a lot of my friends and family joked that I would be getting coffees and photocopying for people. This was not helped given my first duty after induction was to unpack groceries. Yet my first week with Pollenizer could not have been...
by Phil Morle | Jul 3, 2012 | Pollenizer News
The first day walking into Pollenizer was an experience in itself. I didn’t completely know what I was coming into since most of my research on the company came from tech blogs and the company’s site. I came up to a nondescript door at their Surry Hills address. I...
by Phil Morle | Jul 3, 2012 | Pollenizer News
June was a big Talent month at Pollenizer. We were ramping up the Academy, scouting new team members, wrapping up the Autumn Term, and saying goodbye to our wonderful Andy Coffey who will shortly be off on adventures in the US. In between all of that craziness,...
by Phil Morle | Jul 3, 2012 | Startup Science
During my 11 years working in the Mobile industry (1993-2004), I was amazed at the rapid speed in which mobile handset technology evolved. I fondly recall the first time my boss at Optus gave me my first mobile. It was an Ericsson GH197, a big old thing with an aerial...
