by Phil Morle | Aug 22, 2010 | Startup Science
Signing NDA’s is impossible for Pollenizer given that we see about 20 new businesses a month. We certainly keep all information confidential and never, directly chase a new idea brought to us from someone. Pollenizer’s integrity is and must be on public...
by Phil Morle | Aug 19, 2010 | Customer Development, Startup Science
I saw Steve Hopkins post today on hypotheses based testing and thought I’d share some ideas we’ve been using at Pollenizer. A lot of startups we see and work with are getting better at doing customer development, but they sometimes aren’t quite sure...
by Phil Morle | Aug 19, 2010 | Pollenizer News
This week’s Pollenizer Podcast is a little different, where I talk with the Public Interest Journalism Foundation’s chairman Margaret Simons and Secretary Melissa Sweet. I am also on the board, which you can read a little bit more about here The Foundation...
by Phil Morle | Aug 9, 2010 | Startup Science
This is a guest post by Chris Hitchen, CEO at getprice.com.au in celebration of Mick’s new son, Samuel. Startups and babies… The launch date is never certain and often late It doesn’t come out the way you expect it to It costs much more than you think...
by Phil Morle | Jul 29, 2010 | Pollenizer News
In this week’s podcast I talk to Mark Pesce, one of the co-inventors of VRML. Mark and I chat about what drives him to take an idea and see it through to completion. What’s more important for success, the person or the idea? We also, chat about his new...
by Phil Morle | Jul 28, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Pollenizer is looking to hire a Junior / Mid-weight Project/Product Manager. Woohoo! Is that person you? See below. The lucky winner will have to do stuff like: Spend half of his/her day in Jira and/or wire framing cool products Spend the other half in meetings and...
by Phil Morle | Jul 26, 2010 | Startup Science
“We’re 99% there,” says the very excited entrepreneur. “Fantastic, well done. Only 50% of the way to go,” responds the veteran advisor. We often laugh at this at Pollenizer. It’s something we hear lots of people say when they are...
by Phil Morle | Jul 23, 2010 | Pollenizer News
This week in the Pollenizer Podcast we chat to the fabulous UX consultant Lisa Herrod, also known as @scenariogirl. We talk about UX in terms of start-ups and Lisa has some great tips for budding web entrepreneurs out there. Read Lisa’s great blog post on Lean...
by Phil Morle | Jul 12, 2010 | Pollenizer News
So this week we chat about the newly launched Pollenizer Bootcamp. Since we’re selling our own wares we decided this would be called the steak knives edition. My cold also gives me a great infomercial lilt to my questions. There is some useful info in there...
by Phil Morle | Jul 8, 2010 | Startup Science
A short story about the difference between belief and experience to encourage developers to get out of their comfy chairs and go and talk to your customers. At Lean Startup Circle Sydney, a number of the people were concerned about having to go talk to customers as a...
by Phil Morle | Jul 1, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Today we speak to one of the CTO’s here at Pollenizer, Bruno Mattarollo about the challenges for engineers when building lean start-ups. We don’t get too technical and if you’re a developer and thinking about building a start-up, I’d say this...
by Phil Morle | Jun 26, 2010 | Pollenizer News
As many of you know, we’ve been helping Spreets get started, so we’re very excited to announce today that Spreets has launched to all Australian capital cities. Read the media release below for more info: Group buying site Spreets receives $2 million...
