Web Strategist and Co-Founder at Pollenizer
Sydney Area, Australia
- Current
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- Board Member at mogeneration
- Web Strategist & Co-Founder at Pollenizer
- Public Speaker at Pollenizer
- Past
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- Chief Operating Officer at Tangler
- Web Strategist at HollyBridge (Self-employed)
- Chief Marketing Officer at Zapr
- Travel and Volunteer Work at Life
- Head of Marketing And Business Development at Kazaa (Sharman Networks/LEF)
- Marketing and Sales Manager at MassMedia
- CEO at eCoast
- Marketing Manager at Virgin Interactive Entertainment
- Marketing Executive at IBM
- Education
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- Australian Graduate School of Management
- Australian Graduate School of Management
- University of Newcastle
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Mick Liubinskas’s Summary
I love technology and working with teams to build focused products that are spectacularly useful and profitable.
- Web and mobile businesses
- Consumer. Mass. Global. Social.
Some of the clients we're working with;
Posse, Mixin, Lingopal, Tangler, Ph.Art Gallery, MyProjex, Mogeneration, 3eep, OzWeather, Linqia
Other things I've done: IBM, Virgin, my own startups, Kazaa, Zingee/Zapr, Tangler, 50+ public speaking gigs (workshops, seminars)
I'm also a member of EO Sydney.
Call me on +61 2 8005 6944 or +61 422 56 4248
mick@pollenizer.com
Mick Liubinskas’s Specialties:
Focus: Strategy, getting focus, where to start, product design, marketing for early stage web and mobile businesses.
Breadth: Strategic planning, research, market evaluation, product marketing, web applications, viral marketing, customer acquisition, media, SEO, SEM, Peer-to-Peer, digital content sales, leadership, business development, business models, public speaking.
Mick Liubinskas’s Experience
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Board Member
mogeneration
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Initially responsible for putting the company together. Supporting role now as board member and advisor.
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Web Strategist & Co-Founder
Pollenizer
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years )
Pollenizer helps web and mobile businesses get big. We join the management team part time and help grow the business by fluidly filling gaps, adding experienced implementers and getting results.
Business:
- Business strategy and model development.
- Product development strategy, planning and functional requirements.
- Marketing implementation planning and execution.
- Customer acquisition
- Due diligence for investors
Technology:
- Technology Confidence Report - for founders and investors.
- Development process improvement.
- Preparation for scale
- Support with outsourcing
Some of the companies we've worked with include:
* LingoPal
* 3eep
* Getprice.com.au
* Linqia
* Posse
* Mixin
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Public Speaker
Pollenizer
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Experienced and high-energy speaker on entrepreneurship, new technology, startup businesses, the Internet, raising capital and leadership.
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Chief Operating Officer
Tangler
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Making the product awesome.
Managing the marketing, media and community teams.
Look after the customers.
Representing users in feature debates.
Build great partnerships.
Build enormous revenue streams.
Growing. Fast!
Build Tangler into a well respected company.
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Web Strategist
HollyBridge (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
July 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 6 months)
Pollenizer helps startup web businesses get big.
This includes;
- Internet services
- Web based applications
- Desktop software
Services include;
- Business strategy and model development.
- Market strategy planning.
- Marketing implementation planning and execution.
- Communications strategy.
- Product development strategy, planning and functionality requirements.
My current clients are:
* Tangler
* LingoPal
* Ultimo Road and BonBon
* MyPeople
* 3eep
* Stealthy Twitter App
* Goalsy
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Chief Marketing Officer
Zapr
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 6 months)
http://www.zapr.com/
Consumer software application development.
File sharing and storage.
Startup.
Seeking funding from smart partners.
Product development.
Marketing strategy.
Message management.
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Travel and Volunteer Work
Life
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; International Trade and Development industry)
July 2004 — April 2005 (10 months)
Travelled Europe, Africa and North America.
England, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (family background), Poland, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria.
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Worked for 3 months in Arusha, Tanzania with MondoChallenge. Got robbed by fake police. Helped set up a student loan program for adults. http://wheel.blogs.com/lfl
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Head of Marketing And Business Development
Kazaa (Sharman Networks/LEF)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 2 months)
• Reporting to CEO for;
o Product Marketing: Developing the application for more than 40 million customers, 5 million online at one time and the most downloaded application in history (300M).
o Revenue streams: development of revenue streams. Including search, OEM, advertising and content sales. P&L.
o Brand: directing one of the fastest growing brands in the world.
• Build, develop and lead a senior team of 16 product marketers, content developers, designers, web developers, researchers and business developers in a complex and challenging environment.
• Customer retention, customer acquisition, new product development, viral, PR/media, lobbying, and strategic alliance development.
• Working with markets, partners and media in USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Korea, India, Italy, Israel, Estonia and Denmark. Including Overture, Skype, Tiscali, Doubleclick, Lions Gate Films & Russell Simmons Music.
• Building and launching Kazaa Plus, the paid for version of Kazaa. -
Marketing and Sales Manager
MassMedia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 2001 — June 2002 (1 year )
Generating leads and selling in web development and Internet application projects to medium sized companies and government departments.
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CEO
eCoast
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 1998 — September 2001 (3 years 1 month)
Started and built a web services company focusing on local government and small business.
Company closed after three years.
$50,000 initial capital. -
Marketing Manager
Virgin Interactive Entertainment
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
August 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 2 months)
Managing media and product marketing.
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Marketing Executive
IBM
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IBM; Computer Hardware industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year )
Database Marketing manager.
Mick Liubinskas’s Education
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Australian Graduate School of Management
New Marketing Imperiatives 2005 — 2005
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Australian Graduate School of Management
High Tech Marketing 2004 — 2004
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University of Newcastle
Bus , Marketing and Politics , 1993 — 1995
Additional Information
Mick Liubinskas’s Interests:
Surfing, soccer, basketball, mountain biking, dancing, karaoke, bbq, snow boarding.
Mick Liubinskas’s Groups:
Desperate Surfers, Central Coast Cavaliers, D&Ders, WOWers.
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Digital Media Group - Australia and New Zealand
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