Shared Learnings
Capital Development: The Third Kind of Startup Heat
For a startup, there are three things you need to develop: a product, a customer, an investor. Recently at Pollenizer we had an epiphany. Well, it was more of an observation of what was happening, but it was just as powerful. Like all startups, we have a limited time...
read morePollenizer secures further funding – doors open for 2011 Summer intake.
Pollenizer has just secured further funding that will be used to invest in its web startups. This founders fund is made up of some of Australia’s most experienced technology veterans. Update: Applications for our Summer Semester have closed. Click here apply for...
read morejQuery Countdown Timer Plugin
I've had the idea for a countdown timer for a while now. So the last couple of weeks I've been plugging away at one. I have sorted out some interesting issues with it. Basically keeping time with Javascript is a pain but I think I've solved it. Here it is my jQuery...
read moreTest 001 – Reminding Users To Accept Their Invitation
Here at Pollenizer we ♥ testing. We're doing sprints on a weekly basis so we have to learn fast and learn often, and we do this by running as many tests we can based on assumptions we make about user behaviour. We love how we are constantly surprised by our findings!...
read morePollenizer launches Unrenovated – the home of renovation.
Pollenizer launches it’s newest venture today, Unrenovated - a site exclusively for unrenovated properties in Sydney’s Inner West. A few short months ago, co-founders Julio and Dan joined forces with Pollenizer to create a new way to find unrenovated residential...
read moreNew role: Startup Marketing Lead
Pollenizer is seeking someone to lead, drive and grow our great team of startup marketing, customer development and customer acquisition peeps. What the role is; Leading a team of 4 customer development/marketing people as they work their butts off to start new web...
read morejQuery Tabbing Navigation Plugin
Last week I wrote a plugin to do tabbing navigation. I've written this javascript so many times in the past, I can't believe I haven't turned it into a plugin til now. What came out was the fastest plugin I have ever written. I think it took me about 30 minutes. It...
read moreLeverage every action
Just polishing off the UnMarketing book I mentioned last week and thought I'd share another lightbulb moment from it. This week it's that you can easily maximise your promotion by leveraging your actions. Sounds a bit cryptic but it's actually very straight forward...
read moreHow to find a good domain name
Hi! My name is Pierre, and I'm a domain junky. I own close to a hundred domain names and I haven't bought one in over a week! *cue for clapping* Finding a good domain name is a real challenge. You'll need a lot of creative juice to come up with something that domain...
read morejQuery Dynamic Navigation Plugin
A couple of wees ago I wrote a piece of javascript for the new Wooboard interface. The problem was that there was a tabbing navigation that needed to support many more items than could fit in the screen. This navigation changed depending on what challenges were set....
read moreWhich startup idea should you pursue?
So here is a challenge for you. I got an email today from a guy who had 3 ideas he could pursue and he wanted advice on which one to do. I answered with this; Which business idea gets you so excited you could sell it to the world and get up 3 years in a row with full...
read morejQuery Faux Select Plugin
I wrote this plugin ages ago, but I recently upgraded it to work on optgroups, so I think now it's worthy of being published. Many times I have received designs that have fancy select boxes. All UI developers know about this problem. Designers seem to think that you...
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