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10 Rules For Startups
Here is some advice for start-up companies from Paul Hayes, a man who clearly enjoys the entrepreneurial challenge and the social aspect of his work. The former marketing guru for Havoc games shared...
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Three Innovators To Watch
Innovation is all well and good, but if it gets rid of one of life’s major annoyances, then I am all ears. GetItKeepIt.com tackles the issue of utility bills by promising to collect and organize them...
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A New Approach to Political Debate
Xochi and Michael Birch After a lot of development and a little mystery, the covers are beginning to slip off Jolitics, a new political website. Established by Bebo founder Michael Birch, Jolitics is...
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Perfect Your Pitch and Bag €30k+
Following the success of the last competition for web startups, the Dublin Web Summit has lined up another competition for the October gathering. The concept is simple, start ups enter the competition...
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Measuring VC Sentiment
Prof. Mark V. Cannice It was disappointing to miss the Dublin Web Summit during the week and to gauge the sentiment among local tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists (VCs). However, I was doing...
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You Suck: 7 Reasons Your Business Will Fail
Entrepreneurs can be a deluded, stubborn bunch. And those traits won’t bring success, according to Ben Parr, tech journalist, sci-fi writer, and editor-at-large at Mashable.com (@mashable). The San...
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The Future of News: Dead Papers, Living Journalism
I remember when I first moved to the States from the recession-blessed Ireland of the late 80s. On my first Sunday there, I went out to buy the paper, the Boston Sunday Globe. Chuckling to myself, I...
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7 eCommerce Tips
Keep it simple and get inside the customer’s head when it comes to eCommerce. But be prepared for an awful lot of work, said Colm Griffin, founder and CEO of Purchase.ie (@purchasedotie). His...
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10 Tips For Building a Killer Startup
Be careful building that killer startup, said serial entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith. Its first victim could be you! Speaking at the Dublin Web Summit (@WebSummitHQ), the Moshi Monsters guy (@acton)...
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5 Tips & 3 Thoughts For Entrepreneurs
Starting a company is like making sausage, so don’t be fooled by the other guy’s press release. It’s probably as ugly behind the scenes there, according to Los Angeles-based venture capitalist, Mark...
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Observations on Messaging From The Web Summit
The Web Summit was a busy place. Over 10,000 tickets were sold and 500 press passes were given out. So getting the message out was a challenge. Before attendees had even reached the venue, the...
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Summit Colossus Selling Out Hotels Already
A funny email arrived today. It was funny peculiar and funny ha ha — not just funny peculiar or just funny ha ha. It came from Paddy Cosgrave (@paddycosgrave), CEO of the The Summit, and was a...
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Don’t Waste Time Starting Your Own Business
It was one of those nuggets of advice that came unexpectedly but bears repeating: If your startup idea is crap, or if your understanding of how startups work is crap, go work for a startup instead....
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Web Summit 2014: Have Pass, Will Travel
So my blogger pass to the Web Summit (#WebSummit2014) arrived in that new fangled electronic email today. I don’t know much about the internet, or “web,” as some people call it, and I have a terrible...
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3 Tips to Get Media Attention for Your Business
Mike Butcher, Lisa Fleisher Last year during the Web Summit, I wandered around the exhibition area and wondered why many of the exhibitors wanted to talk to me. It then dawned on me that my ID badge...
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Smart & Smarter: Stand Out From the Crowd
There’s a classic scene in the movie Dumb & Dumber where our two heroes chose unusual tuxedos. The joke there was they stuck out like two sore thumbs. But what if you want to, or have to, stick...
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