This is a blog for all the technology entrepreneurs based in the North West of Ireland - musings about our business, companies, interests, trends and any other random thing that hits us.
Naked Conversations: Web 2.0 Disrupting VCs - Clavier Thinks Not Jeff is in the middle of the web2.0 space - some good nuggets in this interview
posted by fergusb @ 2/15/2006 05:34:00 PM
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AirHead: Entrepreneurship "A very very good podcast from Janice Fraser, CEO of Adaptive Path. She makes some extremely apt comments on how to approach your company and setting up a good culture within your company."
posted by fergusb @ 2/15/2006 10:25:00 AM
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CrunchNotes � Ron Conway and Web 2.0 "Nevertheless, Conway believes that some of the most interesting search innovations will soon emanate from companies not named Google (GOOG ) or, for that matter, Yahoo! (YHOO ) or Microsoft (MSFT ). Over the past two years, he has bet heavily on this hunch, putting his money in nearly two dozen startups. "Search is in its infancy today," says the seasoned Silicon Valley investor. "It's at 10% of its potential, maybe."
posted by fergusb @ 2/15/2006 10:24:00 AM
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posted by fergusb @ 2/14/2006 07:15:00 PM
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Yahoo! User Interface Library: amazing and free -- Chad Dickerson’s blog to all web2.0 wanabees - this is cool.... and very useful
posted by fergusb @ 2/14/2006 10:22:00 AM
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O'Reilly Radar > Web Development 2.0 Interesting thoughts from Marc at oreilly
posted by fergusb @ 2/13/2006 11:55:00 PM
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posted by fergusb @ 2/13/2006 02:00:00 PM
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Marc’s Voice � Blog Archive � OH MY GOD - Microsoft Live is Hailstorm 2.0 Marc hits some great points from an event that i attended last night - as usual Marc hits the nail on the head.
posted by fergusb @ 2/09/2006 02:12:00 PM
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posted by fergusb @ 2/08/2006 11:53:00 PM
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Simon Willison: Notes from the summit saves me writing... great event - surprised by the number of Irish companies/people in attendance.... which is a great sign of the level of interest in web2.0 in Ireland....
posted by fergusb @ 2/08/2006 11:40:00 PM
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James Governor's MonkChips: DropSend: how to build a web app business for less than 30k good commentary on a recent presentation i've seen at Carson Workshop
posted by fergusb @ 2/08/2006 05:05:00 PM
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interesting event - CEO + sales... check here
posted by fergusb @ 2/08/2006 12:55:00 AM
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Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger � Cool Web 2.0 image editor Scoble picks up on an Irish web2.0 service - pretty cool service.
posted by fergusb @ 2/06/2006 04:32:00 PM
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posted by fergusb @ 2/05/2006 10:12:00 PM
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posted by fergusb @ 2/04/2006 07:39:00 PM
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tagging tech /john collins/: enterprise ireland's class of 2005 John Collins has an excellent post on the current Irish investment market (or lack of), and M&A activities. My own $0.02 - restructure BES to reflect risk level in high tech (all BES activities are primarily asset backed - bricks and morter). This will hopefully encourage more angel activity, esp from the tech sector folks. - greater VC awareness on Ireland (historically all sub $5million investments are by Irish funds - they dont have the resources (people/cash) to invest over 3/4 rounds. the number of mainstream US/European VC investments has been limited - M&A awareness on Ireland - we're the #1 location for all the large tech companies, but we have a very poor record in terms of exits to the "top 10". Similarity is a great exit in the context of the monies invested (i would guess that if they raised $20million, then they would still be an independent operation - exit price would have to be in the $200m + range to meet expectation) I can see why Frank Ryan is concerned - but its a bit of the cart before the horse - if Ireland wants to create a Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Skype, etc - we have to mature our investment market, whilst also enhancing the leadership capabilities (see ISA initiative) of startups
posted by fergusb @ 2/04/2006 07:36:00 PM
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Geeking with Greg: Marissa Mayer on innovation "Innovation is exploration of the unknown. No one knows the best path. It is important to try many things, learn what works and what doesn't, quickly reject your failures, and build on your successes. That is the key to innovation."
posted by fergusb @ 2/01/2006 06:56:00 PM
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posted by fergusb @ 2/01/2006 06:51:00 PM
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O'Reilly Radar > Web 2.0 Innovation Map pretty cool..... Nooked submitted... lets get the Irish map dotted....
posted by fergusb @ 2/01/2006 06:46:00 PM
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Meetings considered harmful - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) back to work :-)
posted by fergusb @ 2/01/2006 06:44:00 PM
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Startup Fever - The Feasibility Test some great advice in this piece...
posted by fergusb @ 2/01/2006 06:42:00 PM
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Jeff Clavier's Software Only: TiE: How to build a successful Web company ? great nuggets of advice....
posted by fergusb @ 2/01/2006 04:08:00 PM
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