Top 10 New Year?s Resolutions for CEOs

Best wishes for 2006 to all the folks staying tuned to ITNorthWest Voice btw, whats your New Year resolutions - this list is great.

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: The VC funding process - 12 steps to success

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: The VC funding process - 12 steps to success A recap from a previous post on VC fund raising.

Small Biz 101: No one starts with a masterpiece

Small Biz 101: No one starts with a masterpiece - Signal vs. Noise from the 37Signals site these 2 guys did ok "The truth is, they had no idea if they were going to succeed when they started. What if Larry had said to Sergey, "Hmmm, I don?t know Sergey. Surely somebody has already figured out this search thing - and they probably know what they?re doing! We?re just a couple of college kids so let?s just play it safe and get good jobs at a stable company." - from the Search book by John Batelle

Christmas Drinks

The inaugural ITNorthWest Christmas drinks party was help last night and was enjoyed by all that attended (I have some regrets this morning regarding what it was I was drinking however). We even learned how to train pet rocks to roll - thanks Cyril! For those of you that failed to show please rest assured that you were abused (outrageously) as promised. The Infacta Christmas party is on tonight - I better get myself revved up for that. It's tough work but I guess somebody's got to do it.

Presentations - Startup School

Presentations (Startup School Wiki) Some great listening/reading in this mix. The audio from Langley Steinert from Tripadvisor is great - some of the local travel technology companies should take a listen. (also a great entrepreneur story....)

The Post Money Value: Inside the process

The Post Money Value: Inside the process An excellent and thoughful post from Rick Segal on the VC dating game. Well worth a read for any aspiring entrepreneurs...

IT NorthWest - Xmas drinks

Thursday 15th December Donaghy's, Sligo 6.30pm All Welcome Ps. a BarCamp of another kind :-) - more Guinness and less geek talk

Web2.0 Ireland - some good sources of info...

Check out these sites for Information Web2.0 Ireland - an Irish techcrunch/alarm clock and Web2.0 Ireland.org/ - a group blog for all web2.0 folks in Ireland to participate on

Morrison: Google Adwords: Landing page now a factor in quality score

Morrison: Google Adwords: Landing page now a factor in quality score Liam provides tips on Google + Landing pages Some additional tips on landing pages - here and here

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: How to handle the first VC meeting

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: How to handle the first VC meeting Some good pointers of VC meeting prep work - i would personally recommend 8 slides (with a "power" slide at #1 - just in case you get pulled in different directions - and backup slides to backup some asusmptions/data points)