by Phil Morle | Feb 16, 2011 | Startup Science
Is there any demand for your product? You plan to sell baby headphones online but you don’t know if anyone will be interested. Plug the terms you think people would use to look for the product into Google’s Keyword tool and you’ll quickly know how many people search...
by Phil Morle | Feb 7, 2011 | Startup Science
As founders ourselves and working with hundreds of other entrepreneurs, we’ve found there are a lot of conflicting skills, principles and characteristics that it helps to have. Here are a few, add your own. Big vision and brutal focus. Deep empathy and...
by Phil Morle | Jan 26, 2011 | Startup Science
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a ‘seat of my pants’ kind of guy in a ‘rocket powered rollercoaster’ kind of job. Because of that, and often in spite of that, I have to work very hard to make sure that I’m driving the...
by Phil Morle | Jan 25, 2011 | Startup Science
When it comes to the quintessential entrepreneur, there is no magic set of skills or perfect list of traits. However, Jeffrey Bussgang recommends that these are the kinds of questions you should ask yourself: Do you have an idea that no one can talk you out of? Do you...
by Phil Morle | Jan 21, 2011 | Startup Science
I hear lots of startup founders get worried when I talk about testing things fast, moving quickly, trying different target micro-segments and failing constantly on the way to finding a working model. “Yeah, but won’t we be burning people? Won’t they...
by Phil Morle | Jan 12, 2011 | Startup Science
Talking to a founder of a new business they are just exploring right now, we had an interesting thread of conversation. Here is a rough recollection of it; Mick: “There is definitely a vision worth pursuing there, but the fact that we don’t know the first...
by Phil Morle | Dec 22, 2010 | Startup Science
One thing we always aim for with building new businesses at Pollenizer with our portfolio companies is to be insanely useful and solving big, chunky problems. And, ultimately, hopefully to become products customers can’t live without. I thought for a...
by Phil Morle | Nov 15, 2010 | Startup Science
In the latest Pollenizer podcast I talk to Nikki Durkin founder of 99 dresses, a fashion-swapping website that allows users access to an infinite wardrobe of clothes, and Pierre Sauvignon the product manager at Pollenizer who has worked (slavishly) on 99 dresses. We...
by Phil Morle | Nov 11, 2010 | Startup Science
The Pollenizer team is constantly exposed to a flux of new entrepreneurs with web-businesses ideas. This stream comes to us either via our Bootcamp sessions, Pitches rounds, Investors network or more broadly via the various social media tools our antennae can reach....
by Phil Morle | Nov 10, 2010 | Startup Science
I had the pleasure of joining Mike Knapp who founded the wonderful Shoes of Prey on Mark Jones‘ show for Financial Review TV. We spoke about Generation Y and we agreed that they can be awesome for building web businesses. What do you...
by Phil Morle | Nov 10, 2010 | Startup Science
Because I have built more web businesses than I can remember, I am very comfortable releasing products early. I know how much a product evolves in collaboration with its users when this happens. I know there will be more moments of micro-fail where I see users hating...
by Phil Morle | Nov 2, 2010 | Startup Science
A guest post from David McKinney – CEO/Founder of Jammbox. DIRTY HACKS FOR STARTUP FOUNDERS The aim of the dirty hacks series is to help you launch your startup faster, cheaper & dirtier. Everything is rough, crude, and fast. Just what you need for your...
