by Phil Morle | Mar 24, 2010 | Startup Science
Based in Barcelona, Linqia used Pollenizer for a technology assessment, product focus and QA. Linqia defines itself as “The Social Network Marketplace” and connects brands and their agencies with social networks. “As a start-up with limited funding...
by Phil Morle | Mar 19, 2010 | Pollenizer News
It’s been yet another big week at Pollenizer and finished with a solid Friday. We’ve had a Jelly here with some good peeps, run our first trial webinar for Live In Australia, and pushing along a bunch of other great projects. The guys give me their...
by Phil Morle | Mar 15, 2010 | Startup Science
There isn’t just satisfaction and dissatisfaction, there’s non-satisfaction and non-dissatisfaction too. It’s important to know the difference. I did some research once on bank customers and found out that they weren’t hoping for satisfaction,...
by Phil Morle | Mar 12, 2010 | Startup Science
The past year I have had the chance of coaching great teams around the world, helping them become Agile and produce better products, have more fun while doing it and help them rediscover their passion for software development. I’ve come across a few interesting...
by Phil Morle | Mar 8, 2010 | Startup Science
I often get asked what’s the real value of ‘theoretical’ type business planning for a nascent start-up. The question that usually pops up is: why would anyone want to spend time painstakingly planning when circumstances are so uncertain? Questioning planning is only...
by Phil Morle | Mar 5, 2010 | Pollenizer News
UPDATE: The March Workshop is sold out, so here is the April Web Focus Workshop registration details. I’m running a Web Business Focus workshop for $80 on March 17. I’ve done more than 35 focus workshops for clients over the past two years and I love doing...
by Phil Morle | Mar 2, 2010 | Pollenizer News
Last night we had a fantastic turn out to start a new community group around lean startups. It was a little bit opportunistic with Eric Ries, the key proponent of the concept, in town and a little bit of ‘about time, we need this in Sydney’. We only...
by Phil Morle | Mar 1, 2010 | Pollenizer News
There is so much game theory in product design. Here is a terrific, yet slightly disturbing, journey through our game-packed world. DS Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5 As difficult as it may seem, you need to know this if you make consumer web products....
by Phil Morle | Feb 26, 2010 | Annual Reviews, Pollenizer News
Wow, amongst a flat-out, full-on week I’m poking my head up for a brief second to say; “Hey, Pollenizer is two years old today!” And I’m so proud. Proud of the team and crazy hard work they’ve put into building the more than dozens of...
by Phil Morle | Feb 22, 2010 | Pollenizer News
I attended the Growth Summit in Sydney last week and also MC’d and spoke in the Tech stream on day 2. Here are some of my notes from the days. Big thanks to Karen, Cara, Larna and the crew for organising. Next year it would be great to have wifi with more live...
by Phil Morle | Feb 19, 2010 | Startup Science
Short: Eric Ries from Startup Lessons Learned and Lean Startups is talking in Sydney Monday March 1st, 6-9pm. Register here. Great news. We’ve been talking to Eric since we were on the same startup mentor group at Seedcamp in London last year. We wanted to try...
by Phil Morle | Feb 17, 2010 | Startup Science
We’re at Growth Summit 2010 this week and thought it would be useful to share one of our most valuable tools; the Pollenizer One Site Page Strategic Plan Template. We are big fans of Verne Harnish and the Rockefeller Habits. One of his most powerful...
