by Phil Morle | Feb 19, 2010 | Startup Science
Short: Eric Ries from Startup Lessons Learned and Lean Startups is talking in Sydney Monday March 1st, 6-9pm. Register here. Great news. We’ve been talking to Eric since we were on the same startup mentor group at Seedcamp in London last year. We wanted to try...
by Phil Morle | Feb 17, 2010 | Startup Science
We’re at Growth Summit 2010 this week and thought it would be useful to share one of our most valuable tools; the Pollenizer One Site Page Strategic Plan Template. We are big fans of Verne Harnish and the Rockefeller Habits. One of his most powerful...
by Phil Morle | Feb 8, 2010 | Startup Science
Remedy Tea Test tubes (by storyvillegirl) The only way to be fantastic at creating products that customers love and keep on loving (which is a core tenant of marketing) is to have a culture of testing in your company. When a product is young it’s easy to have...
by Phil Morle | Feb 5, 2010 | Startup Science
Starting a business is hard. By far, the hardest part, is delivery. When we first started Pollenizer a couple of years ago we followed the Google idea of 20% time in which we would dedicate approximately 1 day per week each to internal projects. We tried to launch a...
by Phil Morle | Jan 27, 2010 | Startup Science
My colleague Mauricio and I were confronted with a very practical problem yesterday that left us thinking quite a bit about user-centered design. We are in Barcelona working at a client site and on the way back to our company apartment, we got a bit distracted talking...
by Phil Morle | Jan 26, 2010 | Startup Science
This week, Bruno has flown into Barcelona with a team of scrum ninjas to work with Very Large Telephone Company, to implement Scrum across the company over a three month process. At Pollenizer, we are known for the agile way that we work. We are, shall we say,...
by Phil Morle | Jan 20, 2010 | Startup Science
Flat Eric on a Saturday Afternoon (by DeaPeaJay) Instead of having my morning coffee over my inbox, I sit in the cafe and read. It’s one of the best parts of my day and I highly recommend it. Pollenizer currently has more than 10 live web businesses that...
by Phil Morle | Jan 12, 2010 | Startup Science
While working with one of our clients over the past few months, we had a large “us and them” divide between their business and technical staff. We quickly realised that we needed a common language that would build a bridge between the two groups. Of...
by Phil Morle | Jan 11, 2010 | Startup Science
To start the new year I’ve decided to ask my colleagues and myself what we think the year 2010 will be made of in terms of trends and innovations in the internet / tech field. Here is the compilation of our “visions”: Jugs – Chief Technology...
by Phil Morle | Jan 11, 2010 | Startup Science
How do you measure success in your web business? Do you have a model to test actual numbers against each month? Are you are investing in the right places? Are the changes you are making to your site creating more business activity – whatever that is for you? Too...
by Phil Morle | Nov 18, 2009 | Customer Development, Startup Science
Thinking about new companies finding, nurturing and winning over their first lot of customers and I realise there are a lot of similarities with forming habits. Patience – it takes time. It doesn’t happen instantly. Somethings do, like a click, or a visit...
by Phil Morle | Nov 12, 2009 | Customer Development, Startup Science
Years of dedication and study are coming to end and you are eager to make your mark in the world. As a graduate, you have a lot to offer and a lot to contribute. But don’t think that the hard work is over. It’s time to step up and show potential employers why we...
