by Phil Morle | Dec 2, 2011 | Pollenizer News
Bree Clare shared an article with us this morning with the very catchy title Where is the Female Mark Zuckerberg? It’s an interesting article that hypothesises about female entrepreneurs having the edge over male entrepreneurs in the current ‘boom’....
by Phil Morle | Dec 2, 2011 | Code
As appealing as Test Driven Development (TDD) appears, in the workplace, I have yet to be able to see it successfully applied consistently. According to the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, effective habits are defined by the intersection of 3 components;...
by Phil Morle | Dec 1, 2011 | Pollenizer News
Next Monday 5th December, French entrepreneur Christophe Tallec will be coming to Pollenizer to give a talk on the start-up scene in France. We’d love anyone who’s interested to come along to the Hive (180 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills) at 6:30pm for some...
by Phil Morle | Nov 29, 2011 | Startup Science
As Michelle wrote about the other day, we spent three days last week at a Service Design workshop with Marc Stickdorn. Much of the content out there on Service Design relates to non-digital customer situations, but there’s so much that pure web businesses can...
by Phil Morle | Nov 28, 2011 | Pollenizer News
Yesterday, Pollenizer featured on Kochie’s Business Builders on Channel 7. Thanks to Kochie, Julia Bickerstaff and the whole team!...
by Phil Morle | Nov 24, 2011 | Startup Science
At any point in time there are at least 6 web businesses being incepted, tested, built or grown within our walls. That is: – 6 backlogs – Dozens of tasks created daily – Dozens of tasks closed daily When a task is created, how do we know that it is...
by Phil Morle | Nov 23, 2011 | Pollenizer News
I was lucky enough to attend Marc Stickdorn’s three day workshop on Service Design Thinking. For the uninitiated, service design is a holistic approach to… you guessed it, designing services! In Australia, this is more commonly referred to as user centric...
by Phil Morle | Nov 21, 2011 | Startup Science
It is hard to keep up with ever-growing startup community, but you also need to know what is going on in the startup world. What the trends are, what kind of startups are popular, or which are getting traction. You also may need to do competitor research from time to...
by Phil Morle | Nov 15, 2011 | Pollenizer News, Startup Science
There’s been a lot of movin’ and shaking in the Aussie startup scene lately. First, Kaggle got a nice injection of cash overshadowed only by the luminaries in its list of investors. Then Trunk.ly announced an acquisition by AVOS, the people that also run...
by Phil Morle | Nov 14, 2011 | Startup Science
Every time I attend an event like Pushstart and SydStart, I get asked the same questions about community. Do I need a community? What should I use to build a community? How do I build a community? The answers to the first two questions are simple: ‘YES’...
by Phil Morle | Nov 14, 2011 | Pollenizer News
Applications have closed today for our Summer Intake. But do not worry, we are proud to announce that on April 1st 2012, Pollenizer will begin its Autumn Semester. Applications close on Friday 21st January 2012 at 5pm. To apply click here. For more information on the...
by Phil Morle | Nov 13, 2011 | Capital Raising, Startup Finops
For a startup, there are three things you need to develop: a product, a customer, an investor. Recently at Pollenizer we had an epiphany. Well, it was more of an observation of what was happening, but it was just as powerful. Like all startups, we have a limited time...
