by Phil Morle | Sep 24, 2010 | Startup Science
Inspired by Danielle Laporte’s permission slips, here is our version for start-ups. Add yours in the...
by Phil Morle | Sep 15, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Good to see a list of MegaTrends coming out from Ron Conway on ReadWriteStart and Techcrunch As a quick summary of how some of Pollenizer’s portfolio fits in here; Social – 99Dresses, Posse, Linqia (exited) Real time – TanglerLive Location based...
by Phil Morle | Sep 15, 2010 | Startup Science
If someone who loves you is wrong for you, you need to dump them and move on. You can’t two time as a startup. This post is inspired by the KaChing case study on Startup Lessons Learned on Pivoting on Eric Ries blog, and this quote; Which is a nice story. But...
by Phil Morle | Sep 10, 2010 | Pollenizer News
In June of this year, Pollenizer began publishing a monthly newsletter known as ‘The Buzz‘. The aim of the newsletter was to keep our friends, family, past and present clients a quick snapshot of everything Pollenizer including our announcements, client...
by Phil Morle | Sep 9, 2010 | Pitching, Pollenizer News
Innovation Bay has raised $6M from five dinners. If you need venture capital to shift your startup into its next fast-growth phase then Innovation Bay’s upcoming Angel Dinner in Sydney might be for you. If you are interested in coming to the dinner, have funds...
by Phil Morle | Sep 8, 2010 | Startup Science
In our latest Podcast we chat to Dean McEvoy – co-founder of Spreets – one of Pollenizer’s portfolio companies. Spreets is Dean’s second start-up having founded Booking Angel before. Dean has some great advise for entrepreneurs about raising capital as well as some...
by Phil Morle | Sep 6, 2010 | Pollenizer News
We’ve been busy and here’s the proof. Below are past editions of ‘The Buzz’ June...
by Phil Morle | Aug 31, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Sometime ago I wrote a blog post advertising a Project/Product manager position open at Pollenizer. I received a flood of applications, some good ones, some bad ones as you can expect. Today I received a nice email from James Goldie with this video attached: Now...
by Phil Morle | Aug 30, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Are you ready to start a web business now? Apply for Startup Bootcamp today. It’s a practical and informative program to help you hone your idea and understand the full picture of building a successful business. What’s the commitment? 4 nights of 3 hr...
by Phil Morle | Aug 27, 2010 | Pollenizer News
If you haven’t played with word cloud creation tool Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg, you should! You can create pretty pictures out of your website or blog’s content. Wordle grabs all the words on the page or website you are ‘wordling’ and creates...
by Phil Morle | Aug 25, 2010 | Startup Science
Photo Credits: BenJTsunami – See original here. From time to time one of our portfolio companies gets to be featured on a prime time TV show (A Current Affair, Today Tonight…). This has obvious benefits for the business in terms of publicity, but it comes...
by Phil Morle | Aug 24, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Pollenizer wants to be a co-founder of your next web business. Our goal: Invest our team and money in 10 web startups by June 30, 2011. Pollenizer’s focus is on: Startup, idea-stage web businesses, In Australia, Targeting consumers, Commercially focused, With a...