Shared Learnings
Yahoo!7 Acquires Spreets, A Pollenizer Portfolio Company
Fantastic news today for the Spreets team, for Yahoo!7, for the Australian technology community and of course the Pollenizer team. Read below for the story, and a few notes from us at the bottom. Yahoo!7 acquires Spreets - leading Australian and New Zealand online...
read moreDeloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010
Pollenizer Ranked Number 38th Fastest Growing Technology Company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010. Sydney, Australia, 14th January 2011 - Pollenizer today announced that it ranked Number 38th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010,...
read moreAre you looking for an X-Factor or the right mix?
Talking to a founder of a new business they are just exploring right now, we had an interesting thread of conversation. Here is a rough recollection of it; Mick: "There is definitely a vision worth pursuing there, but the fact that we don't know the first step says to...
read moreMake a Photo Book in Six Minutes
At Pollenizer we love to make our own custom photo books with Blurb. Blurb's on a mission to make it easy and affordable for anyone to publish a bookstore quality book. This means developing awesome publishing products such as Bookify, a free browser-based photo...
read more2010 Pollenizer Review
What an amazing year we've had at Pollenizer! Babies born, dresses worn, new team members, bootcamps, founders, began Pollenizer Ventures.... Fantastic! Here's a few ways we've contributed to the economy in the past year... Number of jobs created: 60 Tax paid: Just...
read moreWhat Apps Can’t You Live Without?
One thing we always aim for with building new businesses at Pollenizer with our portfolio companies is to be insanely useful and solving big, chunky problems. And, ultimately, hopefully to become products customers can't live without. I thought for a pre-holiday,...
read moreStartup Bootcamp 2011
Are you... At the concept/idea stage of a new web business? Looking for Pollenizer to be a co-founder who would take a 40%+ equity stake in the new business? The founder who is going to drive the business? If you've answered 'YES! YES! YES!', then you should attend...
read moreAnthill’s Cool Company Awards (2010)
Pollenizer has been named one of Australia’s ‘Coolest’ businesses in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards. Pollenizer has been named a Finalist in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards, a national program developed in 2006 to recognise...
read morePollenizer podcast: Validating a business idea without a line of code.
In the latest Pollenizer podcast I talk to Nikki Durkin founder of 99 dresses, a fashion-swapping website that allows users access to an infinite wardrobe of clothes, and Pierre Sauvignon the product manager at Pollenizer who has worked (slavishly) on 99 dresses. We...
read moreIt will go viral
The Pollenizer team is constantly exposed to a flux of new entrepreneurs with web-businesses ideas. This stream comes to us either via our Bootcamp sessions, Pitches rounds, Investors network or more broadly via the various social media tools our antennae can reach....
read moreGen-Y – Awesome for building web businesses
I had the pleasure of joining Mike Knapp who founded the wonderful Shoes of Prey on Mark Jones' show for Financial Review TV. We spoke about Generation Y and we agreed that they can be awesome for building web businesses. What do you...
read moreLoving the Micro-Fail
Because I have built more web businesses than I can remember, I am very comfortable releasing products early. I know how much a product evolves in collaboration with its users when this happens. I know there will be more moments of micro-fail where I see users hating...
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