Shared Learnings
It’s The Right Time To Start A New Business
I met with a guy last night who started his business in the late nineties, built it up, got slapped in 2001 by the market, held on, kept building it up, got some success, and sold it a year ago and is about to lose his golden handcuffs. We were talking about the...
read moreThe Australian Innovation Review is Out!
The Australian Innovation Review (AKA 'The Cutler Report') has been released. What does this mean for us? We all have some serious reading to do? VC mates, Angel mates, start-up mates.... what do you think? I have pulled out just the recommendations from th emassive...
read moreSwitchwise Switched On
Another Pollenized start-up came to life this weekend. Switchwise is a Melbourne-based company with the simple, yet powerful goal of saving us money on our energy bills. Australia now has an easy to use solution (like uSwitch in the UK) for comparing energy plans and...
read moreMick’s Trip: USA and Spain
I'm heading off this Saturday for a business/holiday. TechCrunch 50 in San Francisco, some work in New York, some work in Barcelona and some not-work in the rest of Spain and maybe Andorra. Mick's Travel Plans If you're around, let me...
read more2Vouch Launch Recruitment Referral Into Beta
Gratz to the crew at 2Vouch Online Recruitment Referral crew for plunging into beta. It's looking and feeling great and the feedback is going to sharpen you guys up even more. 2Vouch let you earn referral rewards in cold hard cash to refer good people to good jobs....
read moreXumii Going to DEMO
Pollenizer wishes the Xumii Mobile crew best of luck with their upcoming (Next Sunday) trip to the DEMO conference. Nail the six minutes and then stay up for the six hours of pitching that...
read moreGot Big News? Get Your Startup On ZDNet
I met up with Renai Lemai recently to talk about the startup community in Sydney and he was very enthusiastic about doing more, writing more and getting amongst it. We had a bunch of ideas, including them hosting an Officially Friday, but one that we can start on now...
read moreXumii and Pollenizer
Quick exciting announcement (or very excitement as Jennifer from Xumii would say) about a new team we're working with. Xumii! It's mobile. It's social. It's growing fast. Pollenizer is working with the welcoming team in Sydney to refine the product and with Kristie...
read moreSydney iPhone Application Development Lab
A brief announcement that Pollenizer has started working with clients to help them develop web businesses based around iPhone applications. If you are in Sydney, and are looking at adapting your application for the iPhone or have a new idea for an iPhone business or...
read moreLinqia Being Pollenized
We are really proud to announce that Pollenizer started work with Linqia this week. As Google's ambition is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", Linqia will be doing this specifically for the groups and communities of...
read moreSydney Shared Office Space Meetup
Just a note here that anyone in Sydney who is keen to grab some shared office space are welcome to come and meet at a potential space this Thursday at 4pm. 1 Barrack St, corner of Clarence St. More details here and...
read moreAbout this blog
Since this is about the 100th blog started by Phil and I, I think it's worth saying what this is about and what's going here. This is the Pollenizer Blog, and it's mainly going to be for Pollenizer specific news. New people joining the team, new companies we're...
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