Hi all, a few of us put together a blog to capture good flearnings -
learning by failing.
It would be great to get more stories up there.
If you have a good one, put it in here;
http://flearn.org/share-your-flearning/
I had a shocker last week with a prank that backfired;
Hi all, a quick update on this area.
We are going through an options program right now for a startup and are
using a different method.
IM (DEFINITELY) NOT A LAWYER
But here is how it basically works;
1. Offer options to employees with a premium strike price. e.g. 70%
above today's
. Funny Or Die now has ~ 80 people, is
profitable and likely to make $40M in revenue this
year:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/funny-or-die-will-ferrell-dark-...
Mark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_or_Diehttp://www.linkedin.com/in/marksmallcombe
On Apr 11, 9:02 pm, Mick Liubinskas
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/10/startup-genome-compares-top-startup-hubs/
I'm slightly proud of this, even making the list, but really we should
be higher. We should be in the top ten. Maybe not tomorrow, but next
year.
There is no excuse for us not to be there.
If we need more investors -
On Apr 11, 4:15 pm, Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer) bigm...@gmail.com
wrote:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/10/startup-genome-compares-top-startup-...
I'm slightly proud of this, even making the list, but really we should
be higher. We should be in the top ten. Maybe not tomorrow, but next
Hey everyone, Pollenizer is putting together a little book on focus
and how it can help turn ideas into businesses.
It's a very collaborative book and I'd love to include contributions
from the community.
If you have a good, scary, funny story where focus helped or lack of
focus hurt, please go
opportunity.
On 4/11/12 8:02 PM, Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer) bigm...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hey everyone, Pollenizer is putting together a little book on focus
and how it can help turn ideas into businesses.
It's a very collaborative book and I'd love to include contributions
from
Anyone had any luck with a good system to lock away some ESOP in
advance in Australia?
It really does suck that we don't have better support for a key
currency of startups. Any govt types listening?
Mick Trigger Price Liubinskas
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Make sure you get along Friday and have a beer.
On Mar 20, 9:26 am, Rai dekraz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Ryan!
Welcome!
Rai
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:31 AM, RLiubinskas ryanl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
After 1 month of lurking I thought it is time to intro
Is the ambition around the financial impact or the real world impact?
It doesnt' have to be both.
We're trying to be more agressive with Pygg, Wooboard and Coachy all
aiming to be global and have a big impact. Wooboard's goal is a
trillion Woo's by 2020 - just 999,992,000 to go!
The challenge is
So what's going to happen in 2012?
With you?
With your company?
With Sydney (or your city)?
With Australia?
With the World?
Here are mine...
I'm going to find a CEO in the US to run Wooboard.
Pollenizer is going to exit another business
Sydney is going to be included with Tel Aviv, Berlin,
FYI
There is a segment on incubators where a few of Australia's
incuabators are shown.
10am
Sunday 27th (this Sunday)
Channel 7
The reason I know is because Pollenizer is on it with Spreets and
Unrenovated. Not sure who else is on, I think Fishburners?
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Congrats to Nikki. Well done and well deserved.
I think it's good to go to the US, though I think a lot of Aussies
forget about home when they go. A bunch don't, like Elias, Alisdair
and Adam Broadway (through my personal experience anyway) but I'd like
to see a bit more investment back into
(I've been out of SB for a while with work and family stuff consuming
me, but trying to dive back in a bit)
I saw this post looking for a co founder and part of it grabbed me;
http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/c2782bfc95e3783b
Good responses from all
Hi all, I got an email from Bjorn from the Startup Genome project with
an offer for an organised, paid tour of Silicon Valley.
Let me know if you're keen and we can get a $500 discount.
Details;
http://blackbox.vc/connect
Sasha Fadi on cc. are organizing an awesome trip for some of our
Cheers Justin, thanks for coming over. Good to get you into the hive
and seeing what's going on.
And thanks again for doing Startcast. Really good addition to the
community.
Thanks
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On Jul 14, 10:13 pm, StartCast cont...@startcast.com.au wrote:
Gday
I like your thinking Dave. Though I also think bringing the community
together is important. It has to happen lots and lots for years and
years.
That's a lot of beer but I think we can do it!
Mick Meetup Liubinskas
On Jun 27, 11:36 pm, djinoz david.jo...@gmail.com wrote:
Dealsta.com.au can
Worth a try. We should be a few people to throw in $10-20 so it has a
group who care about it... I'm in!
Mick wp-admin Liubinskas
On Jun 22, 1:29 pm, Elias Bizannes elias.bizan...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok far from ready to use but I'll see if anyone wants to help me out here.
What I've done is
Yep, that's a good point. I've often found that senior/star in one
company, doing one thing, at one time does not mean senior/star every
where/time. Senior people often have to unlearn before they can work
in a new system, where as younger people are a bit more raw.
Star players or star team, key
A worthy discussion.
A few quick thoughts from me...
Dean worked for 6+ years on Booking Angel creating a new business,
with lots of innovation and lots of new model in it. For what ever
reason, it didn't work as a business (and what the hell does that
mean? Didn't make him rich? Didn't make
There is an interesting blog post on the idea of fail fast;
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/11/the-fail-fast-mantra-needs-to-fail/
It's from a guy who has had some successful startups and is now a VC.
There is no 'one way' to build a great startup and even with his model
there is a
Oh dear, back to the big, safe, corporate world for Elias. What, can't
hack the startup pace? Why don't you just go back to PWC!
;-)
Congrats mate. See you in the Mission for a burrito the size of a
small car soon!
On Jun 5, 1:13 am, Matthew Ho matt.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome news
Don't underestimate COBOL either.
On Jun 3, 10:28 pm, Alexander Levashov alex.levas...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Darren,
just curious, why for one simple project the developer needs to know 2
programming languages and 3 CMSs?
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There is a great program run by a solid Aussie entrepreneur Creel
Price called;
http://clubkidpreneur.com/
Creel is a great speaker and we should try and get him to an event one
day. I'll ask.
I've been trying to go back to my old school for a while and talk.
I'll put that back on the list
If you'd like to add the calendar to your own site, use this;
iframe src=http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/pollenizer.com/
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To add
Great study and some interesting numbers. The premature scaling is
very interesting. Tough to pick that. Cant' wait forever, can't go too
early.
The Genome project came out of the co-founder network. Pollenizer is a
part of it but it's pretty casual. We put our 2c into some of the
docs, but it
I think if you're non-technical and you use odesk or elance, then
you'll most likely end up disappointed. But you're right about the
commitment.
My suggestion for testing a new idea if you're non-tech is to do
manual testing of the idea. Run it with wordpress, google ads, paypal
accounts, manual
Yup this is what Pollenizer does. The challenge is that Pollenzier can't
service everyone, in fact many people need help to even get themselves
prepared before talking to Pollenizer, and that as a result there are many
folks out there who miss out for the want of tiny amount of focus.
Don't
Yeah, I don't know any... shame.
I do know Charlie Odonnell who was at Union Square. Good guy. A few of
them kayak on the Hudson on Saturdays which is really worth doing.
Email me if you want an intro.
Mick Big Apple Liubinskas
On Apr 4, 2:54 pm, Alex North a...@alexn.id.au wrote:
Julpan
Are you after Aussies or non-Aussies?
There is a regular session of Aussies in SF held each week. Reach out
to Chris Saad, Alisdair Faulkner or Marty Wells. I can intro if you
want.
For non-Aussies you can stand on the corner of 3rd and market and stop
people in the street, most will have what
Hi everyone, sorry this is so late. Took a while to scrub it clean. It
may not be the simplest thing to work out but blame the govt for not
making options work.
Read the summary first.
As a way of quick explanation, instead of options you issue a two
classes of shares/units. B class shares which
After seeing Spreets and Dealised I've come to realise that group
buying isn't much about group and is much harder than most people
think.
But this is interesting and worth testing.
Mick 66% off Liubinskas
On Mar 17, 5:32 pm, BizzBuzz.com.au pinstrip...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Everyone,
My b2b
I got called by a journo talking about online music businesses.
If you're keen to talk to him, email at m...@pollenizer.com
On Feb 28, 6:17 pm, gbissett gr...@grantbissett.com wrote:
On Feb 24, 7:06 pm, Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer) bigm...@gmail.com
wrote:
Nice discussion all.
I'd love
I've had a few requests for this, let me make sure the documents are
clean and I'll post a Dropbox link.
Mick Admin is my co-pilot Liubinskas
On Feb 24, 10:04 pm, Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer)
bigm...@gmail.com wrote:
To get around Australian option laws tax issues we've used a multi
class
Nice discussion all.
I'd love to hear someone with a good music background wanting to start
a new music technology business out of Australia.
Mick Bono Liubinskas
On Feb 23, 12:10 am, Ruhfus michaelruh...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Great thread - there was a good article in the Saturday SMH
I can see the big picture advantages, but for an early stage startup
is it really a good decision.
My short answer is no. The long answer is probably not.
Note: I don't know your circumstances.
The chances that you actually have the patent in alignment with what
the technology actually should
To get around Australian option laws tax issues we've used a multi
class system where shares change class after a certain milestone (time
or goal based). Then you combine that with a non interest loan and you
get a pretty good working system.
We've got documentation for a system like this that
in the enterprise MAY find patents very very useful.
cheers,
Roger
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer)
bigm...@gmail.com wrote:
I can see the big picture advantages, but for an early stage startup
is it really a good decision.
My short answer is no. The long
Great to see it picking up again. I'm down there a bit more now, and
will try and be around for a MSBdrinks.
The important thing is that it's regular. I know I can send someone to
the Grace Hotel, look for a bunch of geeky peeps and they'll have a
ball. ;-)
On Feb 16, 2:33 pm, Yuval Ararat
Sounds great Owen. Connect up with Adrian Vanzyl to get to some to
some of the Aurelius Digital startups in Melbourne.
On Feb 2, 3:51 pm, Owen Kelly o...@novede.com wrote:
Hey everyone,
I received a bit of feedback from my introductions post last week about a
startup show. I have been looking
Hey, I got contacted by this guy a while back but we can't help out
right now.
If you can, let me know and I'll intro you.
Cheers,
Mick
Hello Mick, this is Terry Ramsett in Chicago. I came across your
profile on LinkedIn and noticed you were open to new ventures. I’d
like to share with
I wish! A six month old boy and 6 startups has me chained to my desk.
Maybe if I was speaking on the bus Say $1.25 for a 1 hour rant and
haiku on focus? Then I *Have* to go
On Jan 27, 10:42 am, Elias Bizannes elias.bizan...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
Quite a few of you have asked
More great ideas. Thanks all.
Looks like it's going to be May now, due to other conferences. Working
on it...
On Jan 17, 3:52 pm, hoops missingmatt...@gmail.com wrote:
Something like the business of software would be nice as a format -
ie. growing skills - marketing, sales, getting market fit
Yep, big congrats to Dean, Justus, Phil, Jon, Oliver, Fleur, Bree,
Damien and all the others who did so much hard work. Well done.
On Jan 20, 3:26 pm, Mathew French mathew.fre...@subscribe-hr.com.au
wrote:
That's absolutley awesome. Congrats to all.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:30 AM,
I can't do Tuesdays for till March and would prefer closer to Surry
Hills (work) or CBD (bus stop).
On Jan 14, 4:43 pm, dekrazee1 dekraz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey y'all,
It's been a while. So long that I forgot we used to have these... oops
Just wanted to get a show of hands as to who is
So we've had a year with Commercialisation Australia. From a person
who's part of the community, I'm interested to know what everyone
thinks.
Have you looked into it?
Have you tried to make use of it?
Did it work for you? Why?
Did you apply?
How is the process? Meetings, documentation, case
Guessing this is late, but I'm on my way in. I'm in thongs tho, so a
thong friendly pub would be good...
On Jan 14, 4:29 pm, Sriram Panyam sri.pan...@gmail.com wrote:
Any body planning to get to 77 early? Say by 530?
Cheers
Sri
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, but what about Caterina Fake of Flickr?
Sandy Jen and Elain Wherry of Mebo or Marissa Mayer of Google?
Bring some diversity to it please...
Jonathan (My co-founder is a woman)
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer)
bigm...@gmail.com wrote:
Yep, I mentioned
Some good numbers. Thanks for sharing. It would be interesting to see
the Australian figures, though with only a few of the VC's with money
it would have to be retrospective.
On your question, it depends what you based 'out innovate' on. Growth
% for a startup is from 0 to small, but that's a
One good thing from this is that technical developers should be aware
that you can't sit behind your computer, code an amazing product and
then the world comes and finds it. You have to get out there at least
in some way and more often than not the distribution part is harder
than you think.
Found this page that had a good, up to date list of readings broken
down into categories.
http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2011/01/launching-tech-ventures-part-iv.html
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I've hacked together an inbox zero system with Gmail. It works pretty
well but it's still up to me to implement it. There is certainly a few
labs tools that I would love to have. Primary for me would be one
click archiving. i.e. for every email I can just click 'archive'
'today (my priority
Congrats to the 5, but it was amazing to see such a depth of good
ideas and people to run with them. The community is certainly building
up some strength. Great to see.
Cheers,
Mick
On Jan 9, 4:59 pm, drllau drlawrence...@gmail.com wrote:
Samba is the Linux filesharing. It's sold by the likes
I've created 3 spots at $20 off for Startup Campers if you use this
code:
sucm
It's a great fun day and I hope you can make it.
Cheers,
Mick Liubinskas
Pollenizer
On Nov 10, 9:02 pm, Chua kschua2...@gmail.com wrote:
Have a good trip Bart. Looking forward to it when you are back
On Nov 10, 8
Hey all, a bootcamp attendee is looking for a few people who work in
or with bug testing of web applications.
If you're keen, fill out this short survey;
http://bit.ly/cjmUyw
Cheers.
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Thanks for the post Renai. It's a good question and there are some
great answers here.
I'll summarise my point by saying yes and no.
Yes, there is a VC funding here in Australia.
No, it's not particularly relevant for early stage web businesses,
which a lot of Silicon Beach is about - or is
I think the Perkler guys did. You can talk to Justin and Dan.
A good alternative is just talk to Elias and sleep on their couch for
3 months.
On Sep 8, 1:43 pm, Dylan Jay d...@pretaweb.com wrote:
Hi,
Anyone done this program and have some good or bad experiences with it?
Yep, good article Elias.
They are Aussie Mafia because they occasionally commit crimes (like
driving on the wrong side of the road hey Alisdair?) but they are
certainly not organised. :-)
On Sep 3, 1:33 pm, Keith Lang songcar...@gmail.com wrote:
Nice article. This mainstream coverage does good
Awesome guys, that's great to see it back. Hopefully I'll get along to
this one.
On Aug 29, 10:17 am, PatrickDriessen pwdries...@gmail.com wrote:
Fellow entrepreneur Bart Jellema and I have a lot in common (we were
even born in the same Dutch hospital...) and share a strong passion to
help
The initial list is just an initial list, so plenty of room to grow.
Though it is disappointing in our brief looking that we didn't
automatically add any females to the list. It definitely wasn't
intentional. Tech is a little more dominated by males and
entrepreneurship is a little more dominated
We're also having drinks if you are in Surry Hills.
On Jul 29, 2:35 pm, Bart Jellema b...@rtje.net wrote:
Hi Everyone,
It's time for Silicon Beach Drinks again tomorrow. I'll aim to be
there a bit before 6PM to catch happy hour. Please sign up to the
Meetup.com group and
http://www.meetup.com/startups/
Jason Calicanis crew is running a global meetup of startups.
Anyone interested in organising a local event?
What about Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Hobart et
al. ?
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Sorry I missed it. Will try and make this Friday if you guys are out
again.
On Jul 2, 2:43 pm, Sriram Panyam sri.pan...@gmail.com wrote:
oh yeah forgot about the drink! so same time at the grace?
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems
Shameless plug
Hey, after working with a number of startups over the past few years,
Pollenizer have corralled our lessons into a bootcamp.
We're having an intro session to talk about it this Wednesday night;
http://www.pollenizer.com/bootcamp/
This is for;
* Concept stage businesses (or should
Awesome guys. That's great. Good to know there is more space.
I might refer some people to you as our office is full.
I also think we all need a beer soon. Too much work and not enough
beer makes us write sayings like this.
Mick Liubinskas
http://www.pollenizer.com
On May 4, 11:14 am,
Hi all, I'm coming down to Melbourne on May 11th for a focus
workshop.
If you're running a startup and want to hear our thoughts on how to
get focused, be lean and work on customer development, then come
along.
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