Startup Capital: Sean Blanchfield nails it.
Sean Blanchfield writes about Startup Capital in Ireland: I believe that online technology companies are the way forward for Ireland. It is now clear that online technology companies can be as...
View ArticleAnyone fancy going to the Southampton Boat Show in September?
The show is on from the 16-25 September in Southampton, no less. Advance tickets are very reasonable. See here. Just interested in seeing if other travellers would like to attend as I’d love to make...
View ArticlePivot? No, Tack and Gybe!
This weekend I was entertained by the news that Color, a social media startup, was moving from “mobile” to “FaceBook” as their primary platform. Whether you think that’s a good idea or not or whether...
View Articleideaspace
This morning I had coffee with Marty Neill (from AirPOS and Brian McKimm (from eSynergy). I could have done with another couple of hours (and a whiteboard) but in all I was very pleased with the...
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There’s Digital Hubs and digital hubs.
There is an inevitability of a concentration on the digital knowledge economy for Northern Ireland. We have a thriving group of developers and designers in Belfast, a huge amount of ambition in the...
View ArticleThe Biggest Lies Start With: Startups need…
I’ve been ruminating this blog post over the weekend and then an article on Techcrunch just spurred me to put the thoughts into electrons. I’ve been guilty of using the words “startups need” many...
View ArticleSBRI Briefing in the Assembly today
That this Assembly calls upon the Executive to actively promote and raise awareness and understanding of the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) across the public sector; and further calls upon...
View ArticleWe’re not going to get out of this mess with the thinking that got us in here.
From Pandodaily: The 60-person startup is pulling in close to $750,000 every day, according to our reporting. That’s 50 percent up from the $500,000 the Times reported in early October. Not bad for a...
View ArticleWhy 3D #3ddojo
Yesterday we had record numbers at #3D Dojo at the University of Ulster. There were kids designing game objects, real-world objects and expressing their imagination. The future for this is preparing...
View ArticleThe CTO CoFo and other quasi-mythical beasts
Jase Bell is mostly, pardon the pun, on the money: Put bluntly it’s a big stand off. The startup founder (“Hey, I’m the ideas guy/gal!”) goes tail wagging desperately looking for a tech co founder,...
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