Robert LoveLast night, I had the pleasure of attending Then, Now, Tomorrow: What’s next for the World Wide Web? – the first City Talk of 2013 presented by the City of Sydney in partnership with UTSpotlight. What made this event so extraordinarily special is the fact that it featured Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Now, if you don’t [...]
I recently attended a Pollenizer Academy course – The “Lean Product Manager” by Pollenizer’s very own Michael Dijkstra. One of the most useful sessions for me was “The MVP”, where Michael showed the class how to write effective Hypotheses, Success Metrics, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria. For every feature on every business we build at [...]
Eric Ries says; “Entrepreneurs are everywhere. You don’t have to work in a garage to be in a startup.” He’s right, but they did work in a garage last night when we premiered Pollenizer Academy. With a background in theatre, Pollenizer Co-Founder, Phil Morle, was unable to resist the mise en scène afforded by the [...]
Is building an online community important to your start-up or business? Are you a Community Manager or community enthusiast who wants to connect with other Community Managers, share resources and best practices, soak up information and have brain waves whilst having an all-round awesome time? Well – swarm conference is for you! #swarmconf 2012 line-up [...]
Tonight, I had the privilege of speaking to a crowd of startup-types at the WeTeachSydney: Startup and Business Speed Teaching event at Fishburners in Ultimo. My topic was “Lean Startup Methodologies” and the objective was to try and get across some key points within fifteen minutes. I sped quickly through some key definitions of what [...]
Are you innovating with technology? I mean really innovating? Experimenting, taking risks, going where no (wo)man has gone before? If you are, then you’re eligible for the Research and Development Tax Incentive. The programme is jointly administered by AusIndustry (on behalf of Innovation Australia) and the ATO and replaces the Research and Development Tax Concession as of 1 July 2011. What is the R&D Tax [...]
Last week, I was lucky enough to attend the National Growth Summit 2012. I’m typically sceptical of any conference that appears, on the surface, to be a Kool-Aid pop stand for CEOs, but I have to admit – it was awesome! Day one included speakers such as Jim Collins, Fred Reichheld and Jack Daly – [...]
A current theme for Pollenizer is “noise”. In short, we want to make some – we want to be heard. To that end, the Engineering team have decided to open-source the software we write here on a daily basis. The change is that, traditionally, all the software written by the Engineering Team has been locked [...]
