Shared Learnings
Pitching to America
A message to our Sydney-based startup friends. Pollenizer is sponsoring Coming to America event, now on Thursday, October 15, 2009 from 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Rich venture environments exist where there is a pool of successful entrepreneurs re-investing back into the...
read moreStartup Momentum & Rock Stars with Steve Sammartino
(Updated as we go) Some of the Pollenizer team are live in the Sydney-side of the Future of Influence Summit and we're keeping you in the loop. As the day rolls on, we'll keep adding more comments, content and maybe the odd photo/video or two (if you're lucky). It...
read moreIs media about influence?
Hey everyone, Come down to the Future of Influence Summit next Tuesday 1st September in Sydney. This year we're a partner, which means Pollenizer friends and family get a 30% discount - just use Pollenizer as your discount code. The summit is held simultaneously with...
read more3 New Kick-Start Services For Growing Businesses
How confident are you about your new web business? We've added three new services to give independent advice and recommendations to growing businesses: Cross Pollenation Report - Get independent advice about your site content and design Marketing Workshop - Get focus...
read moreTop 100 Aussie Web Startups
TechNation recently called for feedback into how the Top 100 Aussie Web Startups is calculated and at the CTO meetup earlier this month we discussed some options that could improve the index. As with many things it became very clear, very quickly that defining this...
read moreWanna be our office buddies?
More pictures on our Flickr and the floor plan here (our space is the "Commercial 1") 🙂 Lev 1, 65-67 Foveaux St, Surry Hills Find us on a map here. Get a desk, chair, net access, printer, board room, kitchen, whiteboards and high ceilings Share your office with web...
read moreIdea Tournaments
Each week, the Pollenizer team needs to review many ideas for web businesses. Here is a simple process that we are using that you may also find useful. Our process is a mash-up of a business process and a blog post. The Process Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich...
read moreWIP: How Pollenizer Works
A year and a half ago we created a violent, yet exciting and creative chemical reaction from the coming together of start-up veterans from Australia, India and Europe. Now we are reflecting internally to try to describe what it is that we actually do. I want to share...
read more100 Cups of Coffee to Refine Your Startup Pitch
We're lucky enough to meet a lot of passionate entrepreneurs at Pollenizer and I love it. Exciting ideas, real belief and a twinkle in the eye that says they're ready to take a risk to make it happen. I just wish they'd care a little bit more about the story. It would...
read moreWhy Are Barcamps Important?
Short version: Barcamps are awesome because everyone sets the agenda and participates, not just a small group that the organisers have picked. So go to BarCamp Sydney 5 this Saturday, June 27th, 2009. Long version Recently I attended the Future Summit event in...
read moreHOWTO: Follow Pollenizer on #twitter
We love Twitter as a company and as individuals. It's quite fun seeing that chatter that goes around Pollenizer in a single day. Here's a quick access list of all our Twitter names so that you can follow the fun. @pollenizer - Our company news account. @philmorle -...
read moreThe Difference Between a Functioning Product and a Working Business
A quick video from me on the (big, big, big) difference between a product that actually functions and a business that really works. Roughly; Getting the product to 'function' means you can use it. Getting the business to 'work' means that you optimise it so that it...
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