Shared Learnings
Startup Bootcamp
Pollenizer Hive: 180 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills Wednesday 23rd May / 6-9pm If you are a startup person you should come to this. We don’t care if you are a salesman, a coder, a hacker, a designer or a fork lift truck driver. You just need the fire in your belly....
read moreProgressive enhancement with JavaScript the growing language.
JavaScript (JS) is a popular scripting language that becomes very useful when enhancing a website, an entire website shouldn't rely totally on JS due to the following: Structure can become lost and the site may be harder to maintain. Separation between HTML and your...
read moreFail once shame on your idea, Fail twice shame on you
One thing I have noticed working and observing how other startups progress there is not enough evidence backed decision making. I have even been guilty of this and running with my 'gut' instinct instead of hard numbers justify either a change in product, marketing or...
read moreGuest Post: Lessons Learned at Mozilla by Pascal Finette
This is guest post by Pascal Finette from Mozilla. Pascal is a long time friend of Pollenizer and the Director of the Open Innovation Group at Mozilla. We are proud to be associated with Mozilla's incubator (WebFWD) and to have Pascal's learnings on innovation...
read moreStartup Weekend: Video of What You Missed
The Startup Weekend Sydney team have put together a terrific video of the experience. Check it our here. The community is coming alive. We've got some more of these coming together. We are thinking of theming them and have the following in mind. Tweet us if you are...
read moreFirst Look at the Venue for DNA of a Startup / MCA
I had my first look at the venue and its going to be such a great evening. I took some quick (and bad) video that shows the context. We'll start the event in this room which will be configured with seating, projection screens and couches for fireside chats. How good...
read moreWhat is the efficiency stage?
The efficiency stage comes before scaling and after validation. This stage is about refining the value proposition for the mainstream market, streamlining the conversion funnel and finding profitable high volume customer acquisition channels for growth. Efficiency is...
read moreMastering CakePHP – Advanced Topics
Educational Cake This month the Engineers at Pollenizer sat together through an online CakePHP training program. It was a good opportunity to gauge what the CakePHP community consider advanced and to explore familiar topics from another Engineer’s perspective. Here...
read moreGetting Lean with Eric Ries Books
Here is the real secret of a lean...
read moreHere comes everybody #swsyd
This weekend I am judging at Startup Weekend Sydney. There are more than 120 people here and the atmosphere is electric. We have just done recruitment pitching and I have left the teams for a sleepless weekend building something new. Recently it has become clear to me...
read moreLinkopedia
Linkopedia from the last week.. a compelling view of Pollenizer through shared links, some relevant to Start Up life, and some fluff to keep you entertained. Happy linking all.. Shoestring media takes a punt on naming the top 20 mentors in Start up in Australia, great...
read moreAre you being disruptive?
"Disruptive Innovation gives a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill" - Clayton Christensen Regardless of where you plan to be in the value chain, think...
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