by Phil Morle | Mar 21, 2009 | Startup Science
Pollenizer’s focus is on building web businesses, you can see that through the focus of our site, our blog posts and our experiences. However, something you might not know, is that many of us are also quite interested in the impact that technology has on civil...
by Phil Morle | Mar 17, 2009 | Startup Science
You remember the future we were promised, right? It had flying cars, robotic housemaids, one-piece shiny suits and meals in convenient pill form. We don’t live in that future because the people planning utopia fell in love with their own beliefs about what...
by Phil Morle | Mar 3, 2009 | Startup Science
Thomas Friedman said ‘The World is Flat’. It certainly is for Pollenizer. Here’s my ‘office’ on Sunday. We were meeting with Mixin in the Swiss Alps. Mixin is a Swiss company we recently invested in and to augment their team with the...
by Phil Morle | Mar 2, 2009 | Startup Science
Today we launched a ‘viral’ campaign with the Photo Art crew and I have some observations from the lab. I’ve been working with Photo Art Gallery for about 9 months in total, and four months full-on. I’m hoping to write up a bigger case study,...
by Phil Morle | Feb 23, 2009 | Startup Science
Startups often head towards mediocrity, low growth and less success because they set out to build a free product and the value matches the price. I’m proposing we reverse the way we look at the ‘freemium’ model and by doing so, build better...
by Phil Morle | Feb 19, 2009 | Startup Science
At the end of 2008, I attended an inspiring mini-conference in Palo Alto for CTOs to explore big ideas. At last I have time to blog it. The conference was hosted by MIH SWAT – a division of Naspers with the mission to connect the technology strategies of the web...
by Phil Morle | Feb 18, 2009 | Startup Science
Earlier today, I received this picture (click on the thumbnail since it’s quite large and needs to be seen in its full splendor) from Xavier, a friend that’s a practicing Agile Coach and PM in Belgium. Xavier has just started a fantastic blog on visual...
by Phil Morle | Feb 16, 2009 | Startup Science
Sometimes in the startup phase of a business, you’ll wrestle with the big issues for months at a time until you think you’ve nailed them. You feel like you’ve finally solved one of the great problems of our time. You get the big issues implemented in...
by Phil Morle | Feb 6, 2009 | Startup Science
The Enterprise 2.0 Forum is on again! Enterprise brain gym! Tuesday, February 24. 8.30 to 2pm Luna Park, Sydney I’ll be there again to hear the live feeds from the USA and UK. More thoughts on my blog...
by Phil Morle | Feb 3, 2009 | Startup Science
Just saw Bart’s post on how funding can kill your startup and completely agree. Funding can be great for you and it’s certainly required at some points but I see startups all the time trying to solve problems in the wrong sequence. One of the suggestions I...
by Phil Morle | Jan 23, 2009 | Startup Science
@mrsocial asked this question via twitter here and here. What is the best way for a new startup to get funding? — Mr. Social (@MrSocial) January 23, 2009 @liubinskas but how do you get to the point when you have little to no capital to start with? I wanna be...
by Phil Morle | Jan 14, 2009 | Startup Science
I’ve been working with the Photo Art team in the last two weeks on their new team blog called Photographic Art World. It’s been an interesting exercise and a reminder about the personality of a blogger. Basically, I grabbed the domain, added WordPress,...
