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Startup Ireland Ideas group

June 10th, 2009

Mypicture Ger Hartnett 10:22

README

The goal of this group is to select things that we can do improve the environment for start-ups in Ireland. Feel free to: add new ideas read the other ideas and comment or vote on them
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Paul Graham: "There's this classic pattern that ...

Paul Graham: "There's this classic pattern that has happened over and over again throughout history in which something is made one at a time, very expensively and unreliably by hand, and then someone comes along and figures out how to mak
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March 3rd, 2010

Portrait_normal Mike Ward 16:10

is this group still active?

is this group still active?
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January 31st, 2010

Glad to say hello: Starting SiarSceal Cultural ...

Glad to say hello:  Starting SiarSceal Cultural Tours down here in Roscommon and I run the SiarSceal festival: check out siarsceal and blog. Gwen McNamara Bond.  Looking for business partner or partners for Cultural tours. 
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July 22nd, 2009

Blue shoe Cormac 23:03

Steve Ballmer talks to Stanford University on ...

Steve Ballmer talks to Stanford University on entrepreneurship
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July 8th, 2009

Forigo Martin Mills 16:11

Our collaborative purchasing model and concept has ...

Our collaborative purchasing model and concept has just been approved for feasibilty study grant by the Louth County Enterprise Board :)
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June 26th, 2009

Forigo Martin Mills 08:53

Collaborative Purchasing = increased buying power = savings!

The increased buying power of Collaborative Purchasing is a significant cost management option for start-up Irish businesses. With over 14 years experience in purchasing and supply chain for various large organisations, I have now set up
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June 24th, 2009

Twitter profile pic Shane Murphy 15:02

Hey all, are there any ireland start ...

Hey all, are there any ireland start up meetups I should know about. Would be good to connect with other people in Ireland working in startups
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June 23rd, 2009

Real-time Sollutions to Public Transport information; If ...

Real-time Sollutions to Public Transport information;   If we have any participatents who have company synagies in products which might look to support this SME please get in contact with me on IGO People.   Touch-2-Go has
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How do SMEs look for Business Start-Up ...

How do SMEs look for Business Start-Up seed capital when the economy finds it hard to invest in established industries? an interesting question and one which does not appear to be fully understood by those not able to provide working capi
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June 21st, 2009

High Potential Startups! Budding Entrepreneurs! Send me ...

High Potential Startups! Budding Entrepreneurs! Send me an email if you have an interesting idea. We might be interested!
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June 19th, 2009

Photopeaches PeachyPeople 11:19

The world of social networking is growing ...

The world of social networking is growing at a massive rate and within the last six months i have signed up to more sites than i have friends. My idea orginates from this, i would love an application of all the "Social Networking" si
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Congratulations to Ger on creating a group ...

Congratulations to Ger on creating a group for startup ideas.  Lets get the creativity flowing and lets see lots of new businesses starting even in the current climate.
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June 12th, 2009

A good time for start-ups?

I like this from Guy Kawasaki (via Nic Brisbourne) Points he makes are lots of free or cheap tools, hosting and bandwidth is cheaper than ever, lots of free and cheap marketing tools and with growing unemployment, talented people who are
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June 11th, 2009

What I’d like to see too is ...

What I’d like to see too is more €6,000-ish grant schemes like the level 1 awards made by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland each year. I was one recipient of such a grant last year and it gave me the opportunity to invest a lot of t
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June 9th, 2009

Photo 185 Amanda Webb 20:16

I believe sharing knowledge is the key. ...

I believe sharing knowledge is the key.  There are plenty of ways this is already being done through networking; virtual and face to face and initiatives like biz camp.  We all need to pass on what we know, our experiences of wh
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Mypicture Ger Hartnett 16:48

A virtual frictionless entrepreneurship project that EI could support

Haydn suggested on Pat's blog:I also think Irish entreprenurs are sharper the more time they spend in places like San Francisco so without asking EI for free holidays is there a case for a few roundtables on “frictionless entreprene
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Mypicture Ger Hartnett 16:46

HSE/govt bodies network with entrepreneurs

Haydn suggested on Pat's blog: the HSE is ripe for the creativity and inventiveness of the Web 2.0 social media people in Ireland. I don’t want them just to buy from Irish companies but to open up to ideas, to network with us and to
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Mypicture Ger Hartnett 16:43

Weed out the non-flyers

Janet Cavanagh suggested on Pat's blog: Some great ideas in this blog, but I have heard most of them before. Lots of things are being done out there, but much of the money is going into ideas that will simply not fly when they go to marke
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Mypicture Ger Hartnett 16:41

Active solicitation of new ideas

Posted by Jack on Pat's blog: I think there needs to be a more active solicitation of new ideas.There needs to be more agency investment in TV/Press ads advising people with half-baked ideas what help is available and what they need to do
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Group Profile

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This is a group for creating discussing and voting on things we can do to improve the plight of startups in Ireland. Vote for the ideas you think would make the most difference. This is all coming from an article by Patrick Collison in the Irish Times and a followon discussion on Web2Ireland started by Joe Drumgoole http://www.web2ireland.org/2009/06/08/the-grand-plan-by-patrick-collison/ Earlier a post by Pat Phelan gathered a load of ideas as well http://patphelan.net/how-can-we-foster-start-ups-and-innovation-in-ireland-today/

Group Members

fionan Dulce Schuck George Coffey elainelarkin Catherine Ullwer Con Enda Mc Closkey Graham Penrose Alan adrian bolton Sharon Hearty Shane Murphy Caelen King Fergus Burns Martin Mills Simon O'Gorman VentryVic Edward Savage Micheal Nagle Spaghetti Hoop Cormac Ger Hartnett Cormac Campbell Scott Dave Kelly John Keyes Kieran Fegan Paul Davis Robin Blandford Ann Donnelly Amanda Webb Evert Bopp Gary Morgan James Corbett Mark Cahill David Hickey Paul M. Watson Johnny Beirne Michelle Daly Trevor Halpin Hamper It Bernard Goldbach MikeTheBee Pauline Logan Tony CLarke Finbarr McCarthy Michael Walshe PeachyPeople Annie Corriveau Tom Foley Silvia Gallagher Dickon Whitehead Ciarán Elaine Walsh truckcamper Robin Liam Horan Beany Laughlin Rigby David Mullins Nicholas Martin Dave Ryan mohamed lamrini Gwen McNamara Bond B Maddigan B Maddigan Stephen Connolly Toby K Elaine Rogers Catherine Roe Joy Redmond Fatcheese IE Mike Ward Lifetyme Exteriors

Organisations Represented

SmallBusinessCan.com Elainelarkinmedia.com Chia Ireland Revahealth.com Procure Ireland Collaborative Purchasing Solutions InnovationChef IGOpeople Davis Business Consultants ByteSurgery O'Mahony Donnelly Feelgood Organic Hampers Consult Mark Irish Self Storage Association DownloadMusic.ie Paddy Power Trader Musicreview Unsigned Hamper It Kendlebell Concept 2 Achievement Ltd www.mytunerox.com PeachyPeople.com Abaca Photography havethecraic TruckCamperForSale.com Travelshake Social Media DAVIT Anchora Solutions SiarSceal Festival Production/Tours AOfamily.com Seefin Life and Business Coaching Sonru.com TutorDoctor.ie Lifetyme Exteriors

Group Manager

Ger Hartnett
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