Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Punching the clock with Startup Ireland

We spent the day at the DIT hothouse incubator near the "Silicon Docks". We received some marching orders prior to today from the founder of Startup Ireland - Eoin Costello which turned out to be a good thing because we didn't actually get a chance to meet up with him until around 3:00 as he had a last minute speaking engagement with Google come up.

Video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGSGhDnw1E

The basic premise of the project has two main objectives

1) Research successful incubators around the globe, spcifically in Tel Aviv, Israel and develop a framework of what makes them successful. This framework may be applied in Dublin in the next few years as Startup Ireland looks to become the number one accelerator in Europe fed by these incubators.

2) Research the premise, success and outcomes of global startup events specifically Startup Chile. These events are used to draw in top talent from around the globe. In this case, this talent would likely end up in the incubators and then into the accelerators.


I am definitely looking forward to learning more first hand about how these tech companies are helped along the process to profitability. Most of my experience is with what some would call "real products", primarily in the manufacturing world where it takes a lot more time and capital to go from an idea to market.

Per Jan's recommendation, I am also going to be especially keen to what I myself can learn from this experience. This is the balance between selfless and selfish...


Also in case anyone is interested, here are the URL's to all the blogs the class is working on while here in Ireland.




  • http://broncosace.blogspot.com
  • http://bevancox.blogspot.com
  • https://annakatferreira.wordpress.com
  • http://prezi.com/ey5ht1k7mhfa/ireland-maymester-2014-cu-denver/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
  • http://rahulsukkalaposts.tumblr.com
  • http://kbundy84.tumblr.com
  • http://perceptionandbeyond.wordpress.com
  • http://katygoingabroad.blogspot.com
  • http://navyskier.blogspot.com
  • http://pdhutchinson.tumblr.com
  • http://seekellytravel.blogspot.com
  • http://www.alliericks.com
  • http://brettjbennett4.tumblr.com
  • http://thecuriousbob.blogspot.com
  • http://ucdenverireland2014.blogspot.ie/2014/05/day-four-day-out-of-dublin.html?m=1
  • 1 comment:

    1. The video of my talk at Google is here - http://startupireland.ie/make-dublin-best-tech-startup-location-world-talk-dublins-first-google-atmosphere2014-conference/

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