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Pollenizer Academy Scholarship Programme

Pollenizer Academy is currently taking enrollments for its first classes taking place in a number of weeks. This course has been established to train, educate and apply the knowledge used within Pollenizer. Having spent years training the team, Pollenizer has taken...

Are you an awesome startup CEO?

  We are on the hunt for awesome startup CEOs to work with of our pods (lean startup teams). What this means is that Pollenizer is looking for high calibre individuals who would be interested in exploring opportunities to partner with us on a new venture as a...

PaaS Off

Criteria Criteria Description Start Must be painlessly quick and simple to get started. Ideally, it should take less than five minutes to have the latest version of CakePHP up-and-running with a MySQL database. Configure Environments must be easily configurable. For...

Migrations plugin for CakePHP

Here at the Hive anyone can host an informal workshop, known as a brown bag, to share learning’s which the team would benefit from or find interesting. This week I shared my experience about the Migrations Plugin for CakePHP. During GovHack 2012, we had three...

Basic Startup Financial Scenarios

We use a template which gives you a simple way to think through the financial mechanics of your startup early. You can check it out here and down load a copy or make a copy; It’s  good for; Back of the envelope understanding of capital required, break even and...

From Little Things: DNA of a Startup

Last week we welcomed Bjoern Lasse Herrmann to Pollenizer. Bjoern is the co-founder of the Startup Genome, a startup programme which aims to assist with increasing the success rates among startups. There is a constant perception of potential failure within Startups,...

Fail + Learn = #flearn

To boost the amount of great failure in order to embrace the learnings and explodify the successes, we came up with the following hashtag; #flearn Of course it’s a combination of Fail plus Learn. Simple. Short. Brilliant. Brief history; Australia doesn’t...

GovHack 2012

This past, very wet, weekend a small contingent of Pollenizer’s participated in the volunteer run GovHack 2012. Armed with government published data, we set our sights on providing a forum for residents to contact their local representative. After two days of...

Pollenizer is Hiring! | User Interface Designer

Purpose of Position  UI Designers design a user-friendly and powerful user interface for the Pollenizer portfolio businesses, under the direction of the Head of Design. You will need to understand the elements of user experience and user interface, and work closely...

Pollenizer is Hiring! | Head of Design

Purpose of the Role As Head of Design, you will represent Design/User Interface in the Metapod at Pollenizer. The Metapod is accountable for defining and driving the Pollenizer process for building new web businesses from idea to success. The Head of Design has the...