by Phil Morle | May 2, 2010 | Startup Science
I’m pretty proud of the work we do on our processes in Pollenizer. Our production flow would be pure chaos without them. The starting position of all requests is do it now, do it for as close to free as possible, put the best people on it and make it perfect....
by Phil Morle | Apr 29, 2010 | Startup Science
I was thinking about the different roles people play at various stages of a startup and how they approach it, and I was reminded of this old story; A man stopped by a building site and asked the first man what he was making. “I’m laying stones,” said...
by Phil Morle | Apr 24, 2010 | Startup Science
Focus: If you want to drive yourself to get your minimal product out fast, then give us a date within 6 weeks and you can demo it at the Pollenizer office in front of our team and some of our partners/investors. One of the challenges that we see regularly is people...
by Phil Morle | Apr 14, 2010 | Startup Science
We’re doing lots of work right now with companies on helping them find the right business model. One of the first questions we ask is “How close is your core product to the cash register?” What we mean by this is how far are you away from someone...
by Phil Morle | Apr 12, 2010 | Startup Science
Want to take one year off work but can not convince your business partner? Just show them this video from Stefan Sagmeister about the need for ‘workcation’. Perhaps a day or two off each month for research would be more...
by Phil Morle | Apr 1, 2010 | Startup Science
Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard. Great video clip from Entourage here sent to me by Lesley-Ann which now sits along side Coffee is for Closers amongst my regular watching playlist in Youtube. It’s like a mini-seminar. Turtle: “I’ve got a great...
by Phil Morle | Mar 24, 2010 | Startup Science
Social media enterprise 3eep experienced the depth and breadth of Pollenizer’s expertise in getting its online community SportsPassion off the ground. From technology strategy and implementation to product and market development, the Pollenizer team played an...
by Phil Morle | Mar 24, 2010 | Startup Science
Pollenizer’s ability to access in-house expertise to service a broad range of client demands was evident in our work with consumer comparison website Getprice. It also made it the prime and only contender vying for the work. Getprice CEO Chris Hitchen explains...
by Phil Morle | Mar 24, 2010 | Startup Science
Based in Barcelona, Linqia used Pollenizer for a technology assessment, product focus and QA. Linqia defines itself as “The Social Network Marketplace” and connects brands and their agencies with social networks. “As a start-up with limited funding...
by Phil Morle | Mar 15, 2010 | Startup Science
There isn’t just satisfaction and dissatisfaction, there’s non-satisfaction and non-dissatisfaction too. It’s important to know the difference. I did some research once on bank customers and found out that they weren’t hoping for satisfaction,...
by Phil Morle | Mar 12, 2010 | Startup Science
The past year I have had the chance of coaching great teams around the world, helping them become Agile and produce better products, have more fun while doing it and help them rediscover their passion for software development. I’ve come across a few interesting...
by Phil Morle | Mar 8, 2010 | Startup Science
I often get asked what’s the real value of ‘theoretical’ type business planning for a nascent start-up. The question that usually pops up is: why would anyone want to spend time painstakingly planning when circumstances are so uncertain? Questioning planning is only...
