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Custom jewellery founder on tech challenges, equity share for partners
There seems to be a wave of startups allowing people to customise purchases; Shoes of Prey do it for shoes, Evolvex for furniture and JellyBeanBikes for two-wheeled transport. But providing custom products can be challenging, particularly when it comes to the...
read moreTech23 2012 winners: Zeptonics awarded major prize
More than 400 people gathered on Tuesday to hear pitches from Australia’s best up-and-coming tech companies at Sydney’s Tech23. It’s the Aussie tech event which comes closest to a night of nights, with entrepreneurs, investors and government representatives gathering...
read moreDon’t be Sigurista
I learned a new word in Manila today. Sigurista. If you are sigurista, you need things to go according to plan. An entrepreneur can't be sigurista. I don't think we have an equivalent in English so I am adding this one to my lexicon. Thanks to @pia_bernal for sharing...
read moreOovie founder on partnering with bigger companies to accelerate growth
Andrew Evetts, founder of DVD rental business Oovie, had a problem: how could his small startup scale to a large number of locations? Unlike a streaming video startup, or a postal-based DVD rental business, Oovie had significant hardware investment in the company's...
read moreGA founder: being lean doesn’t mean ignoring your brand
Look through Riley Batchelor's CV and you wonder how it all fits together; he's worked in construction, hospitality, fashion and education. The consistent thing seems to be a passion for startups and an ability to build and sell successful business. Batchelor has...
read moreGoParcel founder on how to contact a CEO, finding a co-founder
James Marin; co-founder of GoParcel, says it's impossible to achieve a balance between a part-time role in the wine industry, and the startup which he is trying to build; a site allowing you to send urgent parcels in hours rather than days. Marin worked full-time on...
read moreBuilding trust critical for money management startup Pocketbook
Alvin Singh is a quintessential engineer; he sees problems, and he solves them. After letting his tax slip for the past few years, Singh thought it was time to get on top of things. Excel wouldn't do. Singh wrote some software which could scan his past bank statements...
read moreConvertible notes and priced rounds: what’s the difference?
Last week, Mark Greig, Commercial Director of Pollenizer Global, wrote a post on the Pollenizer blog, looking at different ways to raise investment as an Australian startup. It's received some strong interest from investors and startup founders alike. We caught up...
read moreChillwithme founder on app testing, top chefs and SXSW
Jimmy Lee and wife Alison, want to make it easier to organise group activities using their app chillwithme, so that you no longer have to send countless emails or messages back and forth to organise a group activity, like dinner at a restaurant. Jimmy, who has a...
read moreAcquisitions specialist: plan for an exit, years in advance
It's the ultimate goal for many startups; build a company and have it acquired in a few years, locking in a nice, tidy exit; but how do you actually prepare your business so that this can happen? There are a few things you should be doing from pretty early on with...
read moreDesign and Publish iPad Apps with Oomph
Pollenizer has teamed up with Oomph to present a course on Designing and Publishing iPad Apps. Register here, to learn how to design and publish iPad apps using the Oomph designer friendly app development platform. If you can use InDesign you can design and publish...
read moreLean Approach ≠ Bad Design
Design is good from the start to the never-finish. We don’t know the right way to do design yet. We should be constantly learning to help it evolve, adapt and change for the better. When I tell other designers about Pollenizer’s lean approach, they often assume...
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