by Phil Morle | Oct 20, 2010 | Startup Science
A quick, good example of a very focused first target micro-segment is Honestly.com “Previously, access to Unvarnished has been limited to invite-only or professionals from a list of roughly 200 pre-approved tech/tech-related companies.” From Techcrunch. By...
by admin | Oct 11, 2010 | Startup Science
At Pollenizer, we drink frequently from the fountain of Lean. One of the principles of Lean development, particularly as it applies to software, is that of Minimum Viable Product – the absolute bare minimum you can get away with in order to determine if your...
by Phil Morle | Oct 6, 2010 | Startup Science
At Pollenizer, we’re building new web products all the time and we need people to test these and help us make them better. If you would like to try new consumer products still under development then we’d love to hear from you. You can register your...
by Phil Morle | Oct 4, 2010 | Startup Science
I’m pretty busy right now, but when this subject line hit my inbox, I had to open it; I hated listening to your talk at SydStart Here is what it said; Hi Mick, My name is Kevin Lippy and I founded a company called Brokepacker.com, a booking engine for...
by Phil Morle | Sep 28, 2010 | Startup Science
What do you measure? Measuring the number of users and revenue is OK for tracking the general growth of your web business but it doesn’t help you improve it. If you have 20,000 users in month 1 and 20,001 in month 2, what do you do with that information? You are...
by Phil Morle | Sep 25, 2010 | Startup Science
A guest blog post by Alan Jones. More below. Think it takes millions of dollars, an MBA and a few board seats to become a VC? You’d be wrong to think so. I’ll tell you why, but first, answer this question: what is a startup? We’d probably agree that...
by Phil Morle | Sep 24, 2010 | Startup Science
It would be very cool if we had a Y Combinator in Australia, but we don’t. It has been tried and it has failed. We just don’t have the investment ecosystem to support it yet. We are a long way off the possibility of a hyper-competitive angel ecosystem...
by Phil Morle | Sep 24, 2010 | Startup Science
Inspired by Danielle Laporte’s permission slips, here is our version for start-ups. Add yours in the...
by Phil Morle | Sep 15, 2010 | Startup Science
If someone who loves you is wrong for you, you need to dump them and move on. You can’t two time as a startup. This post is inspired by the KaChing case study on Startup Lessons Learned on Pivoting on Eric Ries blog, and this quote; Which is a nice story. But...
by Phil Morle | Sep 8, 2010 | Startup Science
In our latest Podcast we chat to Dean McEvoy – co-founder of Spreets – one of Pollenizer’s portfolio companies. Spreets is Dean’s second start-up having founded Booking Angel before. Dean has some great advise for entrepreneurs about raising capital as well as some...
by Phil Morle | Aug 25, 2010 | Startup Science
Photo Credits: BenJTsunami – See original here. From time to time one of our portfolio companies gets to be featured on a prime time TV show (A Current Affair, Today Tonight…). This has obvious benefits for the business in terms of publicity, but it comes...
by Phil Morle | Aug 22, 2010 | Startup Science
Signing NDA’s is impossible for Pollenizer given that we see about 20 new businesses a month. We certainly keep all information confidential and never, directly chase a new idea brought to us from someone. Pollenizer’s integrity is and must be on public...
