24th of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
Lots of chatter on the World Economic Forum at Davos
An Irish company - Cicero Networks - is one of the 47 technology pioneers from around the globe…
Cicero have some cool voice over wifi service offering…surely of interest to Google Wifi efforts.
24th of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
1. ripple [Irish web2.0 company - see previous post here]
2. ripple
3. ripple [see alarmclock piece]
Surely some tm issues here…..
23rd of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
Web Reservations - behind the brand hostelworld - was recently valued at more than €400 million.
23rd of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
19th of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
What’s yours ?
Good article on this subject relative to web2.0….
A $50,000 burn rate
18th of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
Brad Feld talks about techstars. See Feld Thoughts - TechStars Launches
Similar to ycombinator - the Paul Graham related “startup camp”
In Ireland we have some of the “ingredients”
- EDP programmes
- University activity
but we’re missing out on
- quality advice/mentoring
- angel investing
The exciting thing @ techstars and ycombinator are
1. backed by folks who’ve done it before - “value add”
2. transparent process
3. cluster is together
4. short timeframe
5. escalator model - access to funding if you “graduate”
6. reduces risk for entrepreneur
7. pipeline for angel investors
See here for possible scenarios in Ireland.
We should learn from these programmes….
15th of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
Another Irish web2.0 play @ voip…..
getmooh.com - Escape a Date, Escape from a Meeting, Escape People
developed by KCO
15th of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
The stealth startup - Ammado is hiring.
# Senior Java Engineer (Distributed Systems)
# Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)
# Senior Software Design Engineer (Web)
# Software Design Engineer (Web)
# Software Design Engineer (Test)
# Software Design Engineer (Release Engineer)
# Senior IT Operations Engineer
# Senior Software Design Engineer (DBA)
Ammado:
“ammado.com is busy creating a new online global community with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. We are developing a fun interactive online platform catering for a huge global market, using the latest technologies”
13th of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
Joe tells us he’s raising a BES round for Putplace.com
For more information on Putplace - read the web2ireland profile
For more information on BES - go here
PS. any other web2.0 companies raising BES ?
13th of January 2007 by Fergus Burns
AllFreeCalls, based in Cork, Ireland, is dominating the web2.0 news - more coverage from vecosys - Tracking Europe’s Tech Venture Ecosystem
