This is Part II. Part I is here. Another example, O’Carroll told of was a businessman with 40 years’ franchising experience who has developed a franchised early education model for kids in deprived areas. Despite, or because of the recession, EI has seen a jump in the number of business proposals coming their way, O’Neill [...]
02.8.12 | Entrepreneurship | John P. Muldoon
Despite a national mood of doom, where the only relief seems to be bouts of gloom, the feeling in Ireland’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is positively buoyant. At a good-humoured and lively panel discussion in the MBA Association of Ireland’s Beauchamp’s Speaker Series, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists gave an upbeat assessment of Ireland’s current start-up climate. Some [...]
02.7.12 | Entrepreneurship | John P. Muldoon
Although it’s an excuse to use a goofy puppet-movie scene, this article is a good reminder that entrepreneurs should keep their eyes on the basics
01.21.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Management | John P. Muldoon
Bill Liao is a techie entreneur who made his first million by changing his language. And not PHP, Javascript or some other computer language. He did it by changing plain old English (or maybe plain old Mandarin, because he’s bilingual). Liao (@liaonet), successful entrepreneur, co-founder of Xing, author of Stone Soup, Special Diplomatic envoy for [...]
01.17.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Personal Effectiveness, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
Lean startup guru Eric Ries says if you are not embarrassed by your version 1 then you have spent too much time on it. But what is the threshold for spending extra time on it when it screams out at you in all its full awfulness?
01.15.12 | Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
It is probably an innovative way to price health clubs, but will it work?
01.7.12 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Social Media, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Part I of this article can be found here. Still suffering from jetlag, Dyson kept her talk short and threw the floor open to questions. There were plenty about health and healthcare, even though Dyson dropped a couple of hints about wanting to talk more about space and top-level domain names. She was a former [...]
01.1.12 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Serial investor Esther Dyson tells of the difference between investing in health and healthcare, and of some of the changes she sees coming.
12.31.11 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Startups are urged to go lean — even in business planning. The NDRC’s Gary Leyden recommends using the one-page Business Model Canvas.
11.30.11 | Entrepreneurship | John P. Muldoon
“I don’t believe in age,” James Whelton, entrepreneur and Coder Dojo co-founder said. Encouraging words to people like me: aspiring entrepreneurs more than twice his age. Then Whelton, 19, and founder of his own company Disruptive Developments (@disruptivedev), goes and ruins it all by saying he was talking about kids even younger than himself. The [...]
11.23.11 | Entrepreneurship, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
