Shared Learnings
HOW WE UNLEARNED OUR BIG COMPANY HABIT AND LEARNED TO BE A STARTUP
EDITOR'S NOTE: Globehop was born at Lifespark in November 2013 - an internal hackathon with 150 Singtel employees. In January, the team came to Sydney to incubate the new business. 3 months later, after an internal pitch at Singtel for next stage investment, Globehop...
read moreBRISBANE’S STARTUP SCENE
A couple of years ago you could have been forgiven for asking “What startup scene in Brisbane?” – but today the river city is at an inflection point, and the startup ecosystem is really beginning to buzz. What’s driving this growth? A couple of things. Firstly,...
read moreTHE LONG SLOW DEATH OF THE IT DEPARTMENT
I've been asked about the future of the IT department a lot recently, and - brutally - I don't think there is one. 'IT" as a term feels like a throwback to the eighties, where a small number of boffins suddenly became the gatekeepers to the company's information and...
read moreIS THE R&D DEPARTMENT OUTDATED?
Most industry stalwarts, large successful companies who’ve been around a while, have an R&D department. The department that is charged with the responsibility of creating new products. Those which bring in the revenue of tomorrow. Excluding acquisitions, the...
read moreCONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS: BRUTAL TRUTH AND HOPE
When coaching startup founders (and being a founder) I have learned that there needs to be an equal measure of brutal truth and hope. Without brutal truth, we live the startup dream until we run out of money and go back to our day job. Without hope, we never begin....
read moreADELAIDE’S STARTUP SCENE
Getting started Familiarising yourself with where the action is, will be your first step into the startup scene in Adelaide. Co-working spaces are a bit of a new thing to Adelaide. To their credit, those in operation are making noise and adding substance to this...
read moreDISRUPTIVE VS SUSTAINING INNOVATION: A CASE STUDY
After years working on (and failing at, and learning from) my own startups, I recently joined Pollenizer in a newly-created position: Senior Startup Coach. When you join the team at Pollenizer, one of the first things you get to understand is the importance of eating...
read morePERTH’S STARTUP SCENE
It is an order of magnitude smaller than Sydney and Melbourne, but the Perth startup scene has been bubbling away over the past year or two, and is in the early stages of its busiest month ever. With a suite of national and international investors descending for the...
read moreMELBOURNE’S STARTUP SCENE
The Melbourne startup ecosystem is smaller than Sydney, but I’d be willing to put money on the fact that it's home to some of the biggest and most vibrant startup gatherings. Every month a group of over 400 enthusiasts (with an inevitable waiting list) cram into...
read moreHOW WORKING WITH STARTUPS COULD SAVE CORPORATIONS FROM EXTINCTION
Pollenizer Chairman, Tony Faure spoke a few weeks ago at the Mumbrella360 conference, he talks about how corporations could be working with startups to innovate rather than getting wiped out. He explains the advantages and drawbacks startups face when in competition...
read moreHIGH-RISE, HIGH-VIZ. WHERE PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED THERE’S MONEY TO BE MADE
Bruce Herbert is the Director of Supply Chain for Coca-Cola Amatil. I asked him to write this post after he expressed a view during his closing remarks at the Firehose hackathon that struck a chord with me. 100 people had just spent 54+ hours understanding the real...
read more[GUEST POST] THE START OF A STARTUP AT POLLENIZER. THE STORY FROM 1 TEAM FROM SINGTEL
In November, SingTel ran it's first ever internal hackathon, L!feSpark. 150 SingTel employees from around the world came together to create 23 startups in two days. The inaugural winner was Globe Hop and part of their prize was the opportunity to come to Sydney to...
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