After working very late in to the night — there were reports of people still coding at 4am — the Dublin Startup Weekend (@swdub) is headed for the finish line. The 14 teams have the rest of the day before pitching their ideas to a panel of investors this evening. I’ve got to say that [...]
03.4.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff | John P. Muldoon
More shots from the working groups. If I got any wrong, let me know. The hashtag to follow the event is #swdub. More pics here and here. Wedolution (@wedolution) taking the stress out of wedding planning. Prescience AI (@aiprescience) : Real life actual intelligence engine MatchBook (@thematchapp). Football programs as an app. DeepGeo : Easy [...]
03.3.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff | John P. Muldoon
More shots from the working groups. If I got any wrong, let me know. The hashtag to follow the event is #swdub. More pics here and here. Pay Forward (@jink_it): Platform to track chains of good actions Joe Drumgoole (@jdrumgoole) mentoring Care Copilot (@carecopilot) Scumbags building a business. Only joking! ScumbagOnTheBus (@scumbagonthebus) AppAce (@appacegames) : [...]
03.3.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff | John P. Muldoon
The event is still going on. Follow it on Twitter at #swdub. If there are any inaccuracies, let me know. More shots here and here. GoParty (@goparty_ie) Newspresso (@news_presso) YouPitchMe (@youpitchme) Reckoned.com (@reckonednet)
03.3.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff | John P. Muldoon
Day 2 of Startup Weekend Dublin sees entrepreneurs getting stuck in to their projects.
03.3.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff | John P. Muldoon
When an investor asks what pain your product pitch is solving, he probably doesn’t expect to hear back that scumbags are on city buses. They drink, are obnoxious and often urinate down the back. There is little the driver can do since he is downstairs driving the double-decker bus. Now with the advent of wifi [...]
03.3.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff | John P. Muldoon
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
