Shared Learnings
Internship Programme: My First Two Weeks at Pollenizer
Before arriving at Pollenizer, I had done some research on Mick Liubinskas (and Phil Morle) for a short presentation we had to give for the university, and I was semi-expecting a pair of new-age tech-renegades since their last gig at Kazaa involved police raids and a...
read moreInternship Programme: My first two weeks at Pollenizer
When I first started at Pollenizer, a lot of my friends and family joked that I would be getting coffees and photocopying for people. This was not helped given my first duty after induction was to unpack groceries. Yet my first week with Pollenizer could not have been...
read moreInternship Programme: My first two weeks at Pollenizer
The first day walking into Pollenizer was an experience in itself. I didn’t completely know what I was coming into since most of my research on the company came from tech blogs and the company’s site. I came up to a nondescript door at their Surry Hills address. I...
read moreThe Internship Hypothesis at Pollenizer
June was a big Talent month at Pollenizer. We were ramping up the Academy, scouting new team members, wrapping up the Autumn Term, and saying goodbye to our wonderful Andy Coffey who will shortly be off on adventures in the US. In between all of that craziness,...
read moreThe Great Mobile [R]evolution – don’t blink!
During my 11 years working in the Mobile industry (1993-2004), I was amazed at the rapid speed in which mobile handset technology evolved. I fondly recall the first time my boss at Optus gave me my first mobile. It was an Ericsson GH197, a big old thing with an aerial...
read morePollenizer Academy Scholarship Programme
Pollenizer Academy is currently taking enrollments for its first classes taking place in a number of weeks. This course has been established to train, educate and apply the knowledge used within Pollenizer. Having spent years training the team, Pollenizer has taken...
read moreAre you an awesome startup CEO?
We are on the hunt for awesome startup CEOs to work with of our pods (lean startup teams). What this means is that Pollenizer is looking for high calibre individuals who would be interested in exploring opportunities to partner with us on a new venture as a...
read morePaaS Off
Criteria Criteria Description Start Must be painlessly quick and simple to get started. Ideally, it should take less than five minutes to have the latest version of CakePHP up-and-running with a MySQL database. Configure Environments must be easily configurable. For...
read moreMigrations plugin for CakePHP
Here at the Hive anyone can host an informal workshop, known as a brown bag, to share learning's which the team would benefit from or find interesting. This week I shared my experience about the Migrations Plugin for CakePHP. During GovHack 2012, we had three...
read moreIs Pollenizer’s First South East Asian Business Built with You?
Pollenizer would like to start it's first South East Asian business this July and is looking for co-founders who would like to drive their own business. We are looking for: Solve a real problem in at least one South East Asian country Can be built and tested with real...
read moreInnovation, Australia and #flearning at Cloudforce
I was on the innovation panel at the Salesforce.com Cloudforce event. Was a really good panel (not a bunch of short talks) and James O'Loghlin did a great job moderating. Key topics; Introducing #flearn to the world. Do we have a culture of innovation in Australia?...
read moreBasic Startup Financial Scenarios
We use a template which gives you a simple way to think through the financial mechanics of your startup early. You can check it out here and down load a copy or make a copy; It's good for; Back of the envelope understanding of capital required, break even and how big...
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