The ICT sector in Ireland is already playing a leading role in showing this model in operation, with Facebook connecting with local application developers through its
Developer Garage programme and Google’s Code Jam engaging in a similar way.
One of the sections is very interesting – titled – Connect with Tomorrow’s Twitter
High growth technology companies have impact hugely disproportional to their size. They are often first to market with new ideas and new business models in digital media, life sciences, mobile technology and financial services. These young companies are the seeds of tomorrow’s multinationals – whether through organic growth or in mergers or acquisitions, often with more established firms. IDA will increase its emphasis and focus on these high potential companies in support of the development of
Ireland as a global innovation hub. IDA has established a dedicated team focused on the needs of these companies. Working with sister agencies and other stakeholders, we will assist these emerging companies with financial support and in making connections in Ireland. These high-growth firms
will become an increasingly important part of Ireland’s innovation ecosystem, linking up with established multinationals in ICT and globally traded businesses; third level institutions and their talented graduates; and indigenous companies of similar scale and potential.
Job Specification – Business Analyst
Crowdstar International is seeking a Business Analyst to join its fast-growing HQ located in Dublin, Ireland. This role involves providing ongoing market, competitor and product analysis within the Business Development team, to assist the company in successfully identifying and evaluating new business opportunities.
Responsibilities Include:
· Performing competitor and market analysis to facilitate ongoing strategy development.
· Recommending and assisting in the development of strategies for growth.
· Analysing product performance, trends and activity to provide business insights.
· Identifying emerging market trends and patterns in customer behaviour.
· Developing intelligence on the social gaming industry by playing current games, gathering and analysing relevant industry news and reports.
· Building and using strategic and analytic tools to evaluate current and emerging business opportunities.
· Creating clear and concise dashboards, presentations and reports as required.
The requirements for this position are:
· Strong passion for social media and gaming
· Strong analytic skills and experience with metrics driven strategic decision making
· Experience in online games, social media or consumer internet
· Understanding of virtual economies, viral channels, and online monetization
· Strong verbal and written communication skills
· Enjoy working in a fast paced start-up environment
· Apply a collaborative and consensus driven approach
· BA/BS degree
Applications may be submitted by email to Business Development Manager Gavin Barrett – gavin@crowdstar.com
Currently Facebook employ 70 people, and they intend to double the workforce over the coming year (see vacancies), under the leadership of Colm Long, who has provided great support for the Facebook Garage Ireland initiatives
Wow, amazing work on the GigMonkey talk Michael. We can’t wait to see the other segments!
p.s. We’re just turned on the Disqus commenting system here. It is much more powerful than the built-in Wordpress one, particularly when it comes to showing the distributed conversation on sites like Twitter about your posts. Let us know if you have any problems with it. It syncs with the built-in system so if there are any issues, we can just turn it off.
The first Facebook Garage was so popular we had to have another one pretty soon after. On Thursday we had 150+ people crammed into a room in the Radission SAS to hear 5 speakers talk about different aspects of their experiences with Facebook.
It opened with Sean O’Sullivan from Rococo presenting their GigMonkey App. Plenty of technical meat in there about the various challenges they faced and some interesting comparisons with Bebo.
After the break, Flavien Charlon took everyones breath away with his description of the growth of My City. He currently has close to 500k active monthly users on this Facebook App. His talk covered everything from technical issues to growing a userbase and monetizing.
Finally Colm Long who runs Facebook EMEA gave us an insight into where Facebook was going, theeir approach to ads and the shocking growth figures for Facebook in Ireland. One important point that he highlighted was what a small company Facebook is (~900 people). So when development slows in one area e.g. Groups, it is only because they are resource strapped.
Michael Clyne took video footage of the entire event which we hope to post here next week. If you have any photos or videos, please post links to them in the comments.
9th of March 2010 by Fergus Burns
5th of 
