Shared Learnings
Eric Ries talk in Sydney
Short: Eric Ries from Startup Lessons Learned and Lean Startups is talking in Sydney Monday March 1st, 6-9pm. Register here. Great news. We've been talking to Eric since we were on the same startup mentor group at Seedcamp in London last year. We wanted to try and get...
read moreA One Site Strategic Plan
We're at Growth Summit 2010 this week and thought it would be useful to share one of our most valuable tools; the Pollenizer One Site Page Strategic Plan Template. We are big fans of Verne Harnish and the Rockefeller Habits. One of his most powerful contributions to...
read moreAustralia’s Once-In-A-Century Opportunity is Slipping Away
Australia struggles to innovate. I know this is not caused by a lack of ideas or a lack of vision because I live in a world of Australian entrepreneurs. Indeed, what this community gets done, against all odds, is extraordinary. The National Broadband Network in...
read more[Sneak Peak] Groovy New Booking Angel Tools
We have been working with Dean McEvoy and the Booking Angel team to create some new tools for affiliate restaurant sites to integrate Booking Angel simply by dropping Javascript code into their site. For those of you that don't know Booking Angel, the business solves...
read moreYour Ideas Culture: Testing or Hunching?
Remedy Tea Test tubes (by storyvillegirl) The only way to be fantastic at creating products that customers love and keep on loving (which is a core tenant of marketing) is to have a culture of testing in your company. When a product is young it's easy to have ideas...
read moreThe Wonderful World of Limitation
Starting a business is hard. By far, the hardest part, is delivery. When we first started Pollenizer a couple of years ago we followed the Google idea of 20% time in which we would dedicate approximately 1 day per week each to internal projects. We tried to launch a...
read moreSend a Tweet to the #PollenizerHQ
So we've turned off the bad TV and changed to showing tweets on our big TV in the office. You can send your tweets to us by using hashtag #pollenizerhq We also pick up Mogeneration and BookingAngel who share an office with us. The Tweets: Tag Cloud; The application is...
read moreEverything You Wanted to Know About Pollenizer
I was interviewed by the Terence at Board Room Radio for their Commsec Entrepreneur Series just before Christmas. I had a great time at their office chatting with the team. Board Room Radio itself is a super interesting business that has managed to thrive in a...
read moreHalf-price Growth Summit Workshop feat. Mick!
As part of Growth Summit conference this February 17th and 18th in Sydney, Mick is MC-ing the 'Technology to Drive Growth' workshop. We're very happy to be able to offer half-price tickets to Pollenizer friends and family - a saving of over $400! The workshop will...
read moreUser-Centered Design?
My colleague Mauricio and I were confronted with a very practical problem yesterday that left us thinking quite a bit about user-centered design. We are in Barcelona working at a client site and on the way back to our company apartment, we got a bit distracted talking...
read more[Primer] Hyper-Productivity Through Scrum
This week, Bruno has flown into Barcelona with a team of scrum ninjas to work with Very Large Telephone Company, to implement Scrum across the company over a three month process. At Pollenizer, we are known for the agile way that we work. We are, shall we say,...
read moreHow to Make the Most of Commercialisation Australia
There are hundreds of reasons why people never get around to developing their terrific start-up idea. Not enough time, money, experience ... What's your excuse? Following the recent launch of Commercialisation Australia, the time is ripe to give your business idea...
read more