Category Archives: Startups

LouderVoice The Movie

Tom Raftery recently interviewed Conor the CEO for the first ever episode of his video podcasts. If you want to find out about every aspect of LouderVoice from inception to why we use comma separated tags, then have a look. Thanks Tom!

More press coverage of LouderVoice

Ok ok, so this is niche, very niche, possibly “HyperLocal” in Web2 lingo. I just got a mail from Aonghus saying that we got a mention in the Irish language daily newspaper Lá. It’s actually uber-podcaster Conn Ó Muíneacháin’s article about BarCamp Ireland South East which we attended a few weeks back. There is a [...]

TechCrunch20, a start-up’s dream conference

Jason and Mike have announced the TechCrunch20 conference and it has a wonderful twist - 20 startups get to present and it costs them nothing to do so, unlike many others. It’s being held on the West Coast in the Autumn Fall. Whether we get a slot or not I think this is shaping up [...]

Our mention in The Sunday Tribune yesterday

Thanks to Damien for quoting me in The Tribune yesterday. I thought it was an excellent article both on BarCamp and on raising funds. I’d like to explain my quote a little more here. Basically it concerned the €175m the Irish government have given to a set of VCs here. The VCs have to raise [...]

A recommended vendors wiki or blog?

I had a chat yesterday with another Irish entrepreneur about some dev shops I had investigated. Afterwards I sent him on a list of outsourcing vendors that impressed me during my research (but I haven’t used). It struck me this morning that it might be useful to create some sort of wiki or group blog [...]

But how early is too early?

At the moment I am wrestling with the idea of releasing very early. The prototype will have about 60% of what I view as the “full” functionality. It will have the core features of the service for the individual but will be missing the community features. The current plan is that we get the full [...]

Great idea over at TechCrunch UK & Ireland (TUKI?)

Mike Butcher has just written about Money Mondays which is a wonderful idea. In his words:
Each Monday for a month, starting on Monday 20th November, we’ll showcase, and publish contact details for, a web or mobile startup which has yet to secure formal funding. They will have to have either an application of their idea [...]

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