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How to start from nothing and get funding

@mrsocial asked this question via twitter here and here. What is the best way for a new startup to get funding? — Mr. Social (@MrSocial) January 23, 2009 @liubinskas but how do you get to the point when you have little to no capital to start with? I wanna be...

Bloggers Are Born, Not Made

I’ve been working with the Photo Art team in the last two weeks on their new team blog called Photographic Art World. It’s been an interesting exercise and a reminder about the personality of a blogger. Basically, I grabbed the domain, added WordPress,...

Sydney Festival: Lessons in Simplicity

Some friends and I attended Sydney Festival’s ‘First Night’ last night and it was massive. Huge. Over 200,000 people in Sydney and half the city blocked off. And it wasn’t just entertaining. There were lessons in simplicity which made people go...

Lessons from Community Fickleness

A few weeks ago I got a spammy email from Publicis Mojo representing Metamucil in an attempt to engage the blogging community. Nick Hodge covered it nicely here since a number of us blogocrew received the email. Given that I’ve made more than my fair share of...

mixin @pollenizer, pollenizer l: mixin

You may have noticed us mentioning a product called mixin in our social media lately. There’s a good reason for this: we’ve been scoping out a relationship with the company that goes beyond the usual ‘hired gun’ deal most consultancies offer...

Wasted Opportunity With ‘Don’t Reply’

ANZ Internet Banking Customer Friendly Language Originally uploaded by bigmick I got this email in my secure email form my bank. If you can’t read it, it says; “Dear Customer, Please do not reply to this message. It is sent from an unmonitored mailbox and...

Sydney Co-Working Space: March, 2009

Great, Big News! Phaedon from Mitchellake has come through after a hefty battle with landlords, Gladiators and electrical substations with a soon-to-be office and galactic central point for entrepreneurial energy in Sydney. Ground Floor 98 Riley Street Darlinghurst...

Pollenizer keeping up with their Joneses

My name is Alan Jones, and that’s been a heavy burden to bear for most of my adult life because of the notoriously tetchy radio personality and F1 race driver of the same name. Now Pollenizer has an Alan Jones of its very own. And that Alan Jones is me. This...

Product Testing Dangers

Recently on a flight, I befriended a young family with a baby and a 3 year old. At Mogeneration we have been working on a kids game called Moo Shake (now in the app store) that makes a bunch of crazy animal sounds. So I decided to let the young girl test it. She loved...

What Apps Do You Open By Default?

I love lots of apps, but Skitch is like my lungs. I can’t live more than 30 mins online without it. Atariboy, if you’re listening, I’d pay $100 a year for it. One true test that I’ve spoken about before of whether a website or webservice is...