Web 2 Ireland

Great information on how to track your web2.0 application.

Vitamin Features How to measure the success of your web app

David Hornik commented on our post on Entrepreneurship In Europe

“I'd love to come out to Ireland one of these days. There's lots of exciting stuff going on over there.”

David – we’d love to have you come over to Ireland.

On the same subject, Fred Destin, of Atlas Ventures has a blog post on the misconceptions @ the ecosystem in Europe.

IMHO, the ecosystem in Europe is parochical.

Case in point: How many French VCs or Angels invest in UK or Irish startups ?

PDC Accepting Applications for Hothouse 12

Good afternoon All,

Just a quick email to let you know that PDC is now accepting applications for our twelfth Hothouse programme which will begin on Thursday September 21st. If you know of anyone who the Programme might benefit I'd be grateful if you would forward this information on to them.

Hothouse is a 12-month support and incubation programme aimed at graduate entrepreneurs with a knowledge-intensive technology-based innovative idea and with plans to develop and grow a business which will trade globally. There are 16 places available.

Very briefly the supports that are provided through Hothouse are as follows:

• Incubation space here in Docklands Innovation Park, free of charge for the duration of the Programme
• A series of twelve 2-day workshops in a variety of areas ranging from strategic business planning to marketing, raising investment to intellectual property issues. The sessions are facilitated by industry experts and are practical in nature, using participant businesses as working case studies
• Student training grant of €550 per month for each of the 12 months
• Business counseling participants are allocated a mentor to work with them in a strategic capacity
• Access to the wider PDC network PDC have been delivering programmes such as Hothouse for over 15 years
• The opportunity to apply for CORD funding from Enterprise Ireland, which can be worth up to 50% of their previous year's salary up to a maximum of €38,000
• A structured evaluation process helping participants to prepare and deliver a strong business plan and the opportunity to graduate with a Post-graduate Diploma in New Business Development conferred by the Dublin Institute of Technology, subject to submission of a business plan at the end of the year that reaches a certain standard
• Access to DIT resources and expertise

Applicants are required to submit a short business proposal, approx. 8 – 12 pages, outlining their business proposition and providing information about their target market, competition, revenue model and key milestones moving forward. We also require a copy of their own CV and would be grateful if they could provide short bios of other team members, where relevant. Applications should be submitted by e-mail to me at boreilly@pdc.ie
For further information you can check out the overview. If you have any further questions please let me know.

Warm Regards

Bernadette O’Reilly

Centre Manager

PDC

Docklands Innovation Park

128-130 East Wall Road

Dublin 3

Tel: +353 1 2401300

Fax: +353 1 2401310

David Hornik of August Capital recently visited Europe [perhaps Ireland next time ?] and has some observations on entrepreneurship in Europe.

Quote:
“But I was once again reminded of the powerful impact the right ecosystem has on company building.”

I recently wrote about Carson Systems’ one day whirlwind tour of how to build a WebApp over at the Argolon blog.

If you are not familiar with Ryan Carson, DropSend, Bare Naked App or Vitamin and you are trying to build something in this space then you are doing yourself a disservice. Ryan and Gill have tons of useful tips, advice and information on their various sites and you should subscribe to their various RSS feeds.

e-Consultancy interview with Paul Graham (of StartupSchool)

An article from Danny Rimer, General Partner at Index Ventures, one of Europe’s top VC firms.

An essay from Paul Graham on Startup cultures worldwide – a must read for anyone involved in the ecosystem.

However, not sure about this comment

“but if present trends continue, French and German will eventually go the way of Irish and Luxembourgish: they’ll be spoken in homes and by eccentric nationalists.”

from e-consultancy – questions for web2.0 companies.

Jeff Nolan (of SAP) comments on a recent startup – Abgenial Systems.

The VC who invested, Peter Rip, has a great articulation around how they went from “seed” of idea, through to plan.

Its a great story is how a smart VC can add real value to the entrepreneur…..