Working with Enterprise Ireland – from a startup founder

11th of October 2007 by admin

Joe has a great post on working with Enterprise Ireland

Based on his experiences with PutPlace – Joe hits all the key points – and the comments are well worth reading.

My $0.02 – the model is still based on classic “enterprise” startup evaluation – what about the Irish web2.0 companies who are springing up all around Ireland. Room for improvement…

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One Response to “Working with Enterprise Ireland – from a startup founder”

Joe Drumgoole

October 11th, 2007 at 8:29 am

In our case, EI took some time to get going on the Web 2.0 thing, but once they got it they ran with it.

The biggest hurdle is when they ask to talk to some key customers. I always used to say walk back into the office there, and grab somebody with broadband, kids and a digital camera.

In the end they took feedback from some of the “great and the good” in the sector.