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Dirty Hacks: Guest Post by David McKinney

by | Nov 2, 2010 | Startup Science

A guest post from David McKinney – CEO/Founder of Jammbox. DIRTY HACKS FOR STARTUP FOUNDERS The aim of the dirty hacks series is to help you launch your startup faster, cheaper & dirtier. Everything is rough, crude, and fast. Just what you need for your...

2010 NSW Pearcey Awards

by | Oct 22, 2010 | Pollenizer News

Founded in memory of Trevor Pearcey, the Pearcey Foundation was established in 1998 to raise the profile of the Australian ICT industry and profession. Each year, the foundation’s state committees make an award to the most outstanding ICT and digital media...

Focus: Honestly.com

by | Oct 20, 2010 | Startup Science

A quick, good example of a very focused first target micro-segment is Honestly.com “Previously, access to Unvarnished has been limited to invite-only or professionals from a list of roughly 200 pre-approved tech/tech-related companies.” From Techcrunch. By...

Startmate – Applications are now open!

by | Oct 18, 2010 | Pollenizer News

Applications for the inaugural wave of Startmate are now open. Startmate is a group of startup executives offering mentorship and seed financing to founders of Internet and Software businesses based in Australia. The first Startmate program will kick off January 2011...

Product Beta Testing

by | Oct 6, 2010 | Startup Science

At Pollenizer, we’re building new web products all the time and we need people to test these and help us make them better. If you would like to try new consumer products still under development then we’d love to hear from you. You can register your...

Email: I Hated Your Startup Talk

by | Oct 4, 2010 | Startup Science

I’m pretty busy right now, but when this subject line hit my inbox, I had to open it; I hated listening to your talk at SydStart Here is what it said; Hi Mick, My name is Kevin Lippy and I founded a company called Brokepacker.com, a booking engine for...

Measure things that you can learn from

by | Sep 28, 2010 | Startup Science

What do you measure? Measuring the number of users and revenue is OK for tracking the general growth of your web business but it doesn’t help you improve it. If you have 20,000 users in month 1 and 20,001 in month 2, what do you do with that information? You are...

Be A VC for $100

by | Sep 25, 2010 | Startup Science

A guest blog post by Alan Jones. More below. Think it takes millions of dollars, an MBA and a few board seats to become a VC? You’d be wrong to think so. I’ll tell you why, but first, answer this question: what is a startup? We’d probably agree that...