by Phil Morle | May 22, 2012 | Capital Raising, Startup Finops
I decided to get into Angel investing because I believe that the next best thing to being the founder of a successful business, is to be an investor in a successful business. I’m not the sort of person who is likely to lock myself in a room and spend hours...
by Phil Morle | May 21, 2012 | Code
Depending on the audience, I may describe myself as one of the following: engineer, developer, programmer or coder. Anyone who wears the above hats will wrangle with instructions that a computer somewhere will know what to do with. These instructions, represented in...
by Phil Morle | May 17, 2012 | Startup Science
Tonight, I had the privilege of speaking to a crowd of startup-types at the WeTeachSydney: Startup and Business Speed Teaching event at Fishburners in Ultimo. My topic was “Lean Startup Methodologies” and the objective was to try and get across some key...
by Phil Morle | May 15, 2012 | Startup Science
As a developer at Pollenizer I often get asked what you need to do to learn how to get good at development. The obvious response would be to tell them to get a computer science degree, and have some good teachers. Get a junior role somewhere and learn from those who...
by Phil Morle | May 15, 2012 | Pollenizer News
Pollenizer Hive: 180 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills Wednesday 23rd May / 6-9pm If you are a startup person you should come to this. We don’t care if you are a salesman, a coder, a hacker, a designer or a fork lift truck driver. You just need the fire in your belly....
by Phil Morle | May 14, 2012 | Code
JavaScript (JS) is a popular scripting language that becomes very useful when enhancing a website, an entire website shouldn’t rely totally on JS due to the following: Structure can become lost and the site may be harder to maintain. Separation between HTML and...
by Phil Morle | May 13, 2012 | Startup Science
One thing I have noticed working and observing how other startups progress there is not enough evidence backed decision making. I have even been guilty of this and running with my ‘gut’ instinct instead of hard numbers justify either a change in product,...
by Phil Morle | May 10, 2012 | Startup Science
This is guest post by Pascal Finette from Mozilla. Pascal is a long time friend of Pollenizer and the Director of the Open Innovation Group at Mozilla. We are proud to be associated with Mozilla’s incubator (WebFWD) and to have Pascal’s learnings on...
by Phil Morle | May 5, 2012 | Startup Science
The Startup Weekend Sydney team have put together a terrific video of the experience. Check it our here. The community is coming alive. We’ve got some more of these coming together. We are thinking of theming them and have the following in mind. Tweet us if you...
by Phil Morle | Apr 30, 2012 | Startup Science
The efficiency stage comes before scaling and after validation. This stage is about refining the value proposition for the mainstream market, streamlining the conversion funnel and finding profitable high volume customer acquisition channels for growth. Efficiency is...
by Phil Morle | Apr 30, 2012 | Code
Educational Cake This month the Engineers at Pollenizer sat together through an online CakePHP training program. It was a good opportunity to gauge what the CakePHP community consider advanced and to explore familiar topics from another Engineer’s perspective. Here...
by Phil Morle | Apr 28, 2012 | Pollenizer News
Here is the real secret of a lean...
