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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
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
A Behavioral Economist gives some fascinating insights in to our treatment of money.
09.29.11 | Economics, Fun stuff | John P. Muldoon
Companies need to get back to basics of branding, marketing guru Stephen Brown says.
08.10.11 | Fun stuff, Management, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
If a website is “worthy of a bookmark,” then it probably needs an app, according to Dermot Daly (@dermdaly). Founder of app developers Tapadoo, Daly was speaking at this month’s Refresh Dublin (@refreshdublin). The near-full-house event was hosted as usual by the Science Gallery (@sciencegallery) in TCD. He cautioned, however, that not all sites need [...]
07.21.11 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Innovation | John P. Muldoon
Some of the traits that “make Google unique” — risk, trust, openness —don’t cost money and can easily be applied by other companies, according to Helen Tynan, Director of People Operations at Google’s European HQ. In her talk, Future Proof Your Workforce at the NCI’s Cornflakes & Commerce series, Tynan spoke of the attitudes and [...]
07.6.11 | Fun stuff, Innovation, Management, Technology | John P. Muldoon
