by Phil Morle | Oct 6, 2011 | Pollenizer News
We are always getting ideas pitched to us, but currently we are looking for something special. Are you a strong founder with a big idea in your area of domain experience, some investment capital and at least two days a week to work on it (can be partly outside of work...
by Phil Morle | Oct 4, 2011 | Pollenizer News
Pollenizer is Australia’s leading start-up creation company. In three years, Pollenizer has made 25 investments, had a ~$40m exit and helped raise $10m+ in investment. Unlike other seed accelerators around the world, Pollenizer is a co-founder and hands on teammate in...
by Phil Morle | Sep 30, 2011 | Startup Science
It is common practice among startups to put up a holding page with an email collection mechanism before they launch their offering. Heck, there are even products made for this very purpose! It’s a great way of testing interest in your idea, or getting a...
by Phil Morle | Sep 30, 2011 | Startup Science
I got a plug in a magazine this morning amongst some big names. It’s a great little supporting statement for Pollenizer but I need to give it some context. Firstly, startups are hard work. New, risky, vague, emotional, financial, complex and constantly changing....
by Phil Morle | Sep 29, 2011 | Startup Science
You are about begin the startup game. You are facing north. Or what you believe north to be. Before you is an opening. Beyond that are many openings. Each opening shows opportunity. Each could be the first step towards the big vision. Towards your dream. Which one to...
by Phil Morle | Sep 26, 2011 | Pollenizer News
Pollenizer has raised $500,000 for a seed fund it will use to invest in early stage Australian start-ups. Pollenizer co-founder Mick Liubinskas said he hoped to have invested all the money by June next year, with investments between $10,000 and $100,000. A key...
by Phil Morle | Sep 25, 2011 | Pollenizer News
We’re happy to announce that Dealised have raised $5.3m From Singtel Innov8 and Yuuwa Big congrats to the Dealised team in Pollenizer for an amazing year. From starting the company to growing some great customers and now closing this funding from excellent...
by Phil Morle | Sep 24, 2011 | Pitching, Pollenizer News
Last week we organised 2D2R(Two Days to Release). Let’s have a look at some of the pitches we had during 2D2R : Red Meow RedMeow is a subscription service where you get 4-5 deluxe samples of beauty products mailed to you each month in a stylish box. Raffle Cloud...
by Phil Morle | Sep 23, 2011 | #new, Capital Raising, Raising Capital, Startup Finops
UPDATED: June 2014 Looking for money is always hard. Here is a list of the options we know of in Australia. Accelerators Startmate Startmate is a group of startup executives offering mentorship and seed financing to founders of Internet and software businesses based...
by Phil Morle | Sep 23, 2011 | Code
Over the last couple of days I have turned Albie’s now infamous 404 page for wooboard into a bonified jQuery plugin. It’s Friday afternoon and I don’t have the time to prepare the code properly, so I’m giving you a sneak peek of it with a demo....
by Phil Morle | Sep 23, 2011 | Startup Science
I’m new to KISSmetrics but already I’m finding it crazy useful. Beside that fact that’s it’s much simplier than Google Analytics it provides one additional feature I think is really interesting, the ability to track people. Yep individual...
by Phil Morle | Sep 22, 2011 | Pollenizer News
I just spoke at Sydstart (#sydstart) and and we were giving away Matto Rochford’s terrific startup tees. Here are the designs. If you want an actual “Downunderpreneur” shirt and you are at #sydstart you need to you use Pygg to claim it. Go to Twitter...
