Shared Learnings
Be A VC for $100
A guest blog post by Alan Jones. More below. Think it takes millions of dollars, an MBA and a few board seats to become a VC? You'd be wrong to think so. I'll tell you why, but first, answer this question: what is a startup? We'd probably agree that startups are lean,...
read moreHow to turn an idea into a business: Launchpad
It would be very cool if we had a Y Combinator in Australia, but we don't. It has been tried and it has failed. We just don't have the investment ecosystem to support it yet. We are a long way off the possibility of a hyper-competitive angel ecosystem causing a super...
read moreStart-up permission slips
Inspired by Danielle Laporte's permission slips, here is our version for start-ups. Add yours in the...
read moreInvestment MegaTrends & Pollenizer Portfolio
Good to see a list of MegaTrends coming out from Ron Conway on ReadWriteStart and Techcrunch As a quick summary of how some of Pollenizer's portfolio fits in here; Social - 99Dresses, Posse, Linqia (exited) Real time - TanglerLive Location based services - none yet -...
read moreStartups: Break Up With Wrong Customers
If someone who loves you is wrong for you, you need to dump them and move on. You can't two time as a startup. This post is inspired by the KaChing case study on Startup Lessons Learned on Pivoting on Eric Ries blog, and this quote; Which is a nice story. But when...
read more‘The Buzz’
In June of this year, Pollenizer began publishing a monthly newsletter known as 'The Buzz'. The aim of the newsletter was to keep our friends, family, past and present clients a quick snapshot of everything Pollenizer including our announcements, client news, blog...
read morePitch Your Start-Up To Entrepreneurs & Angel Investors
Innovation Bay has raised $6M from five dinners. If you need venture capital to shift your startup into its next fast-growth phase then Innovation Bay's upcoming Angel Dinner in Sydney might be for you. If you are interested in coming to the dinner, have funds to...
read moreDean’s Entreprenerial dating advice
In our latest Podcast we chat to Dean McEvoy – co-founder of Spreets – one of Pollenizer’s portfolio companies. Spreets is Dean’s second start-up having founded Booking Angel before. Dean has some great advise for entrepreneurs about raising capital as well as some...
read morePast Buzzes…
We've been busy and here's the proof. Below are past editions of 'The Buzz' June...
read moreBest Job Application Ever 🙂
Sometime ago I wrote a blog post advertising a Project/Product manager position open at Pollenizer. I received a flood of applications, some good ones, some bad ones as you can expect. Today I received a nice email from James Goldie with this video attached: Now...
read moreStart a Web Business With Bootcamp
Are you ready to start a web business now? Apply for Startup Bootcamp today. It's a practical and informative program to help you hone your idea and understand the full picture of building a successful business. What's the commitment? 4 nights of 3 hr hands-on...
read morePlaying on the Web: Create Your Own Word Cloud
If you haven't played with word cloud creation tool Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg, you should! You can create pretty pictures out of your website or blog's content. Wordle grabs all the words on the page or website you are 'wordling' and creates cool visual models or...
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