Archive for November, 2006

it@cork Conference

Just back from the it@cork conference. Great venue, well organised, good food and facilities. It looked like about 200 people attended.
Eddie Hobbs opened the proceedings and was very entertaining, as always.
It seemed strange somehow to see people like Hugh MacLeod, Marc Canter and Salim Ismail, whose blogs I read almost daily, presenting in a standard […]

BarCamp SouthEast

Keith Bohanna and I have been talking about this for while and his posting now puts it in motion.
Aiming for Saturday, January 20. ‘07

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Legal Seminar

Thanks to Colin Rooney of Arthur Cox Solicitors who delivered an excellent seminar at ArcLabs last week, on legal issues for start-up companies. In a couple of hours, Colin covered a wide range of issues and generated a lot of interaction. He also held a number of one-to-one sessions which were very valuable.

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Avoiding venture capital

Interesting post on Valleywag about a New York Times article on how and why early-stage companies are financing themselves and growing without resorting to VC funding.
Irish start-ups face the same problem; finding relatively modest amounts of funding without the constraints that typical VC firms impose.

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Workshop: Legal Issues for Early-stage Companies

Looking forward to a workshop on November 15 where Colin Rooney from the Technology and Intellectual Property Practice of Arthur Cox Solicitors will discuss a range of legal and IP matters that entrepreneurs need to be aware of. Topics will include:
- Company formation - incorporation and corporate governance matters
- Forming and working with Boards
- Intellectual […]

Workshop: Selling profitably in North American markets

We ran a series of workshops at ArcLabs this week led by Jeff Weigel, aimed at helping early-stage companies to consider a range of cost-effective possibilities for creating a sales presence in North America. This is Jeff’s second visit to ArcLabs and he brings a wealth of experience - both as a sales professional and […]

Workshop: Blogging for Business

Tom Raftery recently ran a business blogging worshop at ArcLabs. We had a mix of entrepreneurs and researchers; some technical and some not so and Tom did a fine of job of meeting a broad set of expectations from the course. If you get a chance to attend one of his seminars, its highly recommended.

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ArcLabs opens

As part of the official opening on October 16, the Research and Innovation Centre has been re-branded as ArcLabs. We will be changing the website and blog in the coming weeks to reflect this.

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