{"id":45742,"date":"2023-10-20T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/pollenizers-coachy-com-put-on-ice-amid-technical-issues-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:46:04","slug":"pollenizers-coachy-com-put-on-ice-amid-technical-issues-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/pollenizers-coachy-com-put-on-ice-amid-technical-issues-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollenizer\u2019s Coachy.com put on ice amid technical issues – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pollenizer co-founder Mick Liubinskas has revealed star in-house start-up Coachy.com, which helps users learn new skills, has been put on hold due to technical problems.<\/p>\n

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Coachy, founded by Luke Grana, enables people to learn skills via one-on-one video sessions with coaches. It is aimed at people who don\u2019t always have time to attend physical classes.<\/p>\n

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Grana developed the Coachy platform alongside Pollenizer, after approaching the Sydney-based start-up incubator with his idea. They began working on it in December 2011.<\/p>\n

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In January last year, Liubinskas told StartupSmart<\/i> Coachy has the potential to go global<\/a>. The story attracted a comment from a StartupSmart<\/i> reader, who wrote: \u201cAnd now look at Coachy. Stuffed. Dead. Inert.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Liubinskas says while Coachy is \u201ccertainly not dead\u201d, it has been put on hold \u201cfor the time being\u201d to address technical issues.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUp to 200 coaches were using the platform and we got great feedback from them. The market position was strong,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut in terms of the browser face of the video technology, it was too unreliable.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the fundamentals of Coachy is obviously streaming and, until the NBN arrives in Australia, we\u2019re going to be struggling to produce high quality video.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But Liubinskas insists Coachy is still in the game, saying it will probably be back up and running by March or April.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely still in play and we\u2019re really excited about the customers we\u2019re working with,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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As for Grana, Liubinskas says he has \u201ctaken a sabbatical at the moment\u201d, but remains a director and advisor to Coachy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLuke is the original co-founder and a shareholder in the business, and we definitely want to keep him active\u2026 Luke has really, really worked his butt off to take the business as far as he has,\u201d Liubinskas says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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