Shared Learnings
Product Market Fit, Habits and Pain
For those of you who are not familiar with the term Product Market but are with the Indiana Jones Movies (showing my age) this is every startups Holy Grail! It is essentially what we are all trying to achieve when we start a new business that has no established...
read moreFinOps Apprentice
Working at Pollenizer is an amazing place to learn and grow in the exciting fast paced startup environment, if you're looking for an opportunity to work in Finance and Operations and you're willing to start at the bottom left, a FinOps apprentice role could be just...
read moreSydney Can’t Be a Global Startup Powerhouse
This was the question I put to the audience at Sydstart on Monday. Lots of people are trying, lots of progress is being made, but are we kidding ourselves. We can't beat the Valley We can't be bigger than China We can't have more mobiles than Indonesia We won't get as...
read morePollenizer at SydStart Spring 2012
Along with Mick Liubinskas speaking at Sydstart, Pollenizer are delighted to be exhibiting at the event on 10 September. Pollenizer is huge supporter of Sydstart and continues to assist anywhere it can to build on Sydney's Startup eco-system. The Spring 2012 event...
read moreI’m not Afraid to #flearn: Phil’s Talk at Lean Startup Machine Singapore
I have just come out of an inspiring weekend at Lean Startup Machine in Singapore. I met some great people and learned some new stuff. I'll blog about that soon. I gave a short talk on Sunday afternoon and a few people asked me to share it so that they could...
read moreMick Liubinskas talks at Failcon Conference 2012
Mick Liubinskas talks about Sydney's inaugural FailCon conference 2012 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, on Thursday 7 June, as part of Vivid Sydney. Failcon Sydney, organised by innovation lab 6.2, highlighted failure and confronted it head on so as to embrace and...
read morePollenizer Singapore is Looking for Co-Founders
Pollenizer has now been up and running in Singapore for about a month. We've been doing all the things you might expect for our first few weeks of work -- introducing ourselves to key players in the ecosystem, flying to Sydney for some fast paced knowledge transfer,...
read moreRework Insights
As an Engineer, the insights from the 37signals Rework book resonate deeply and seem quite obvious. Over the years similar ideas have being preached by myself and other Engineers, although the messages never seems to stick with management. 37signals, being a...
read moreQueuing Services
The idea of a queuing service is to offload something that's potentially resource intensive and takes time to process. Moving a piece of a logic that would originally be executed at visitor run time could potentially speed up the users experience, this alone makes...
read moreScholarships for the Academy
The Academy is most certainly underway and in terms of scholarships we were delighted to have successfully graduated our first scholarship student along with all attendees of the Building Lean Startups course. Presented by Phil Morle, the class looked at the science...
read more“Why hasn’t anyone solved _____ ?”
Don't assume that because no one has solved a huge problem that they haven't tried. Don't assume that you can try better. Don't assume that you can't try better, solve the problem and make the world a better place. Go for...
read moreThe Lean Standup
What did you learn yesterday? What are you going to learn today? What's stopping you from learning?
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