Web 2 Ireland

Vitamin is a great resource for anyone in the startup space.

Check out this article by the CEO of Crowdstorm, Philip Wilkinson

Newbay have just bought a UK company Inamobile

Given the x-section in photo sharing, mobility and social networking – its an interesting development.

Some startup inisghts from Peter Nixey, a UK based entrepreneur, working on a web2.0 startup.

“I’ve worked for a long time to learn enough to be able to create something of real value. Only time will tell whether it’s as useful to others as it is to me but as much as I’d love to be rich, it’s fixing pains that drives me.”

KP’s 7 rules for start-ups (from Don Dodge at Microsoft)

* Instant Value to customers – solve a problem or create value with the first use
* Viral adoption – Pull, not push. No direct sales force required
* Minimum IT footprint, preferably none. Hosted SaaS is best.
* Simple, intuitive user experience – no training required.
* Personalized user experience – customizable
* Easy configuration based on application or usage templates
* Context aware – adjust to location, groups, preferences, devices, etc.

Thoughful piece from Chris Shipley (producer of Demo) on “web2.0 revenue models”

An entertaining presentation from Dave.

Master of 500 Hats: Web 2.0: Floorwax or Dessert Topping?

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/5125313

An Irish based author (former VC), Diane Mulcahy, penned a recent book, which covered the Amazon funding story.

“Entrepreneur : Q3 94 – Founder Jeff Bezos got started investing $10k and borrowing $44k
Friends & Family : Q2 95 – Founders Parents invest $245.5K, Q2-96 siblings invest $20k
Angels: Q4 95 – Two Angels invest $54.4K, Q1,96 , Angel Syndicate – 20 angels invest $46.85 each raising $937K
VC: Q2,96 – Two VC firms invest a total of $8MM
Exit : Q2,97 – 3MM shares sold on NASDAQ , IPO raising $49.1MM”

Guys behind http://www.boompa.com/ have posted up a “post mortem” on getting a web2.0 started.

Check this out – almost a $1million cheque

All from a 1 person dating site

Ryan and Gilian are live-blogging the process of building a web2.0 app…

Carson Systems Blog Blog Archive Bare Naked App – The building of Carson Systems' new web app – laid bare