Shared Learnings
From Little Things: DNA of a Startup
Last week we welcomed Bjoern Lasse Herrmann to Pollenizer. Bjoern is the co-founder of the Startup Genome, a startup programme which aims to assist with increasing the success rates among startups. There is a constant perception of potential failure within Startups,...
read moreFail + Learn = #flearn
To boost the amount of great failure in order to embrace the learnings and explodify the successes, we came up with the following hashtag; #flearn Of course it's a combination of Fail plus Learn. Simple. Short. Brilliant. Brief history; Australia doesn't embrace...
read moreGovHack 2012
This past, very wet, weekend a small contingent of Pollenizer's participated in the volunteer run GovHack 2012. Armed with government published data, we set our sights on providing a forum for residents to contact their local representative. After two days of...
read morePollenizer is Hiring! | User Interface Designer
Purpose of Position UI Designers design a user-friendly and powerful user interface for the Pollenizer portfolio businesses, under the direction of the Head of Design. You will need to understand the elements of user experience and user interface, and work closely...
read moreDear Aussie Startup Founder…
Startup Genome founder, Bjoern Lasse-Herrmann, visits Australia next week for DNA of a Startup. As part of the trip we will be collaborating on creating a report to reveal the DNA of the Australian startup ecosystem. Here's what we need you to do If you are the...
read moreVenue is setup and ready to go!
We have just been to the MCA to check out the venue which is now fitted out and ready for From Little Things: DNA of a Startup. We'll start in here. Can you see the Sydney Harbour Bridge out the window? This will look amazing at night. An inspiring venue for the big...
read morePollenizer is Hiring! | Head of Design
Purpose of the Role As Head of Design, you will represent Design/User Interface in the Metapod at Pollenizer. The Metapod is accountable for defining and driving the Pollenizer process for building new web businesses from idea to success. The Head of Design has the...
read moreAngel Dust
I decided to get into Angel investing because I believe that the next best thing to being the founder of a successful business, is to be an investor in a successful business. I'm not the sort of person who is likely to lock myself in a room and spend hours learning...
read moreWe need coding standards
Depending on the audience, I may describe myself as one of the following: engineer, developer, programmer or coder. Anyone who wears the above hats will wrangle with instructions that a computer somewhere will know what to do with. These instructions, represented in...
read moreDNA of a Startup: Bjoern at Stanford Exploring Companies that Scale Prematurely
Just a few weeks until Bjoern Lasse Herrmann joins us in Sydney to explore the DNA for Startups. Here he is with his co-founder, Max Marmer, at Stanford University recently. They are discussing the most likely cause of startup failure: premature...
read moreWeTeachSydney: Lean Startup Methodologies
Tonight, I had the privilege of speaking to a crowd of startup-types at the WeTeachSydney: Startup and Business Speed Teaching event at Fishburners in Ultimo. My topic was "Lean Startup Methodologies" and the objective was to try and get across some key points within...
read moreThe 1000 Hour Problem
As a developer at Pollenizer I often get asked what you need to do to learn how to get good at development. The obvious response would be to tell them to get a computer science degree, and have some good teachers. Get a junior role somewhere and learn from those who...
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