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2010 Internet Report by Morgan Stanley

Mary Meeker is the head of Morgan Stanley’s global technology research team. In 1998 she was dubbed, ‘Queen of the Net’ by Barron’s magazine (FORTUNE), she was one of the first Wall Street analysts to cover Microsoft, Dell, Intuit, AOL, Netscape, Yahoo!, Amazon.com,...

Focus with “The Donald”

Below is a short video of Donald Trump at the Real Estate Wealth Expo in Los Angeles in 2007, answering a question about focus and his own experiences. Focus is important to not only new businesses and entrepreneurs but those who are ‘old-hands’, who may...

Startups: Inbox addiction is hurting you

Brief: By constantly looking at your inbox, you can only ever be reactive, not proactive. You control it, it shouldn’t control you. I get asked by some entrepreneurs and startup people about how to manage their inbox better so they can stay focused. I hear your...

Casual Position: Junior Web Designer

For Design Graduate / Student: Do you live for web design? Are you ready to immerse yourself in the industry? Are you looking for somewhere great to get work experience? What we’re looking for: An entry-level position has become available for a pro-active and creative...

Life at the Kanban Wall

I’m pretty proud of the work we do on our processes in Pollenizer. Our production  flow would be pure chaos without them. The starting position of all requests is do it now, do it for as close to free as possible, put the best people on it and make it perfect....

How do you see your role in a startup?

I was thinking about the different roles people play at various stages of a startup and how they approach it, and I was reminded of this old story; A man stopped by a building site and asked the first man what he was making. “I’m laying stones,” said...

What I’m Reading

Whilst most of the work week is spent thinking and dreaming about growing web businesses (our own, our clients), there is just enough time to think about other stuff. Just discovered: Industrial design magazine and community, Core77. Here are two fun stories tagged...

Give your Lean Startup a Demo Driven Deadline

Focus: If you want to drive yourself to get your minimal product out fast, then give us a date within 6 weeks and you can demo it at the Pollenizer office in front of our team and some of our partners/investors. One of the challenges that we see regularly is people...