This is a quest post from Holly Cardew, one of the founders of Pixc. It’s been a great example of how startups can benefit from co-working at Pollenizer. Eight weeks ago I knew very little about start-ups and the amazing community that existed around me. Less than four weeks ago, Pixc was fortunate enough to win [...]
Michelle from StartupSmart is leaving Australia for Canada, snow and adventure. Michelle, from Pollenizer and especially from WooBoard, thanks so much for caring about startups and producing so much great content over the past few years. Best of luck and keep in touch! Google+
Lean Startup Machine took place last month at Fishburner’s co-working space in Ultimo. Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition where you will be taught how to identify the key risks in launching or scaling your business idea. Winning the competition and taking away some awesome prizes were Pixc, a mobile app helping individuals automate the editing of their product [...]
I’ve met with dozens of folks over the past months who are interested in the Singapore startup scene. The questions they asked were often similar, so I thought I would take a crack at writing up my standard responses. For the record, this post is not meant to replace a good coffee chat, just to [...]
Four Pollenizer businesses require co-founders. All businesses are very young and need gutsy entrepreneurs with the audacity to believe that they can pull off a global business with limited resources. First you need to be interested in one of these opportunities: Fitbit for Your House – collaborate with your social network to use energy more [...]
The law of the excluded middle states that: “for any proposition, either that proposition is true, or its negation is”. I’ve been thinking about this philosophical pearl as it applies to the holy grail of startup propositions: “[Startup X] has achieved product/market fit”. A strict interpretation of the rule makes the proposition black and white, i.e., either [...]
Pygg has recently been diving deep into solving the cash issue in public schools. Every school day thousands of children across Australia carry cash to schools for payments relating to excursions, fees, sports days etc. For a five year old, this is plain crazy. We started solving the pain of these cash transactions with our cashless [...]
This article was initially published on the Pollenizer Blog in April 2013 I’m obsessed with problems. When I hear someone complain about something I can’t help but to think about a solution, a “better way”. Needless to say that our recent move to France provided a whole new level of exposure to “problems” since complaining about [...]
Pollenizer CEO, Phil Morle speaks on Technology Behind Business about the challenges facing startups across Australia. Google+
When you think of all the times you felt like avoiding the office to get a chunk of work done or just blast something out under a deadline, the idea of sharing an office, voluntarily, seems like pure madness. That said, the positives outweigh those negatives and far beyond when it comes to sharing a [...]
