Archive for the ‘Startup’ Category
Friday, April 11th, 2008
A while ago I ragged on Robert Scoble (almost silently because, let's face it, who read my tripe?) because he was talking about marketing and startups and worked at Microsoft. See the oxymoron there? Working at arguably the most powerful corporation in the world (yeah, they know the backdoor codes ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Dear Colleague
You are invited to attend a Frameworks Entrepreneur workshop to be held at Northern Ireland Science Park, with a presentation on:
“The Venture Capital Process”
By Peter Stafford of A&L Goodbody
Programme Overview:
Raising money in today's environment is no easy task -- but it can be done if you focus on the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
John Gruber writes:
"Borrowing ideas is fair game, but copying an entire app is wrong. And it’s creepy, in a Microsoft-of-the-’90s way, when it’s a $150 billion company cloning an app from a 10-person company."
This is the #1 demotivator for me when it comes to software development. It's an unreasonable fear ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Just over two years ago, I wrote about Venture Capitalists and how their use these days was not the money but rather their contacts; it was their address book and not their cheque book that entrepreneurs should be interested in and, to this day, I agree. That's not to say ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
HiveLogic on getting into The Zone in modern offices:"There’s no choice about how or when you’re expected produce, or under what circumstances. Here is your computer, here is your workstation, you have the tools, the florescent lights are turned on, why don’t you go ahead and get to work, ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Commentary, Startup | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 28th, 2008
For a long while now I've been a proponent of 'Bedouin' working, which is known a little more in the mainstream as 'co-working'. Whereas co-working speaks to me of a common, shared space for individuals to work, Bedouin speaks of multiple spaces, some of them dedicated and some of them ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
After each section of the name, there is a colon, which is actually considered part of the name itself and then a parameter. The type of the parameter is given in parentheses, followed by the parameter name.
After reading this short section, seriously I felt a light switch on in my ...
Posted in Code, Commentary, Startup | 10 Comments »
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Back in 2006 I seriously investigated the possibility of setting up a co-working facility in Belfast. At the time I was pretty much asset-free :) I had a working, profitable business but not enough capital to undertake something of this magnitude. We were looking at a 3 storey building within ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
OpenCoffee Belfast
It's kinda refreshing to see more than just me being interested in new ways of working. David is working on a CoWorking business plan, Andy spends his days camping out in a coffee shop.
Belfast needs co-working facilities.
Like, tomorrow.
(and yeah, we showed off some iPhone game stuff which the guys ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
“self-funded small business that encourages people to stay away from the VCs, says you don’t need to live in San Francisco to be successful, suggests that charging for your products is a good thing, espouses the advantages of small teams, applauds shorter work weeks with more reasonable hours, rejects the ...
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