July 2009
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Day in the Life of an Entrepreneur in Ireland
Meet Steve…a mild mannered entrepreneur living out his dreams in Dublin.
Today is a very important day for Steve, so his wife Cupcake got up extra early to prepare a piping hot breakfast.
On his way to his office at the DigitalHub he runs into Mr. M. Man his Enterprise Ireland HPSU Advisor who gives hime a quick prep talk ahead of his VC pitch to Dermot Berkery from Delta Partners...
Yesterday my iPhone lost it’s virginity…took a face plant on the pavement. All is fine but our relationship has definitely changed!
UC Irvine online gaming simulation shows patents do not spur innovation…“Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts” http://bit.ly/ab8gB
Can safely report that Excel for Mac 2008 really does suck!
At the U2 concert in Croke Park and there is a peculiar sweet herbal aroma in the air! http://twitpic.com/bgznw
Sure this is music to the ears of most Enterprise 2.0 companies…RT @karyngerman: The Enterprise 1.0 12-Step Program http://bit.ly/k5o65
Lack of background updating on the iPhone makes Google Latitude about as useful as a calculus book is to a supermodel!
It’s a fairly new program @thelal the whole Tier 1 system was rehauled last year. Think James Gray of GetMeIn fame was the first to use it.
Amazing digital campaign integrated with your Facebook profile for a new xbox game. Login to FB & check it out-worth it! http://bit.ly/M5wCb
Great piece of analysis on the effectiveness of follower acquisition methods by @robertjmoore http://bit.ly/SX7uD
Sure @thelal checkout the UK Tier 1 Visa Program for Entrepreneurs http://bit.ly/aYeqi
At EI meeting about their commercialisation fund…seems like no matter what EI does they are pissing someone off. Give’em a break!!!
Excellent article echoing my thoughts on raising kids: “Childhood is…or ought to be, the great original adventure” http://bit.ly/jYZBL
Was speaking to a few folks recently about the power of weak links…suggest 6 Degrees of Lois Weisberg by Gladwell http://bit.ly/3L1MEK
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"we are nothing but pimples on the ass of...
These are a bit dated but I really like these mashups put together by Adam Walz
Leadership Mashups: Innovation
I especially like slide 23, but this line from slide 35 is classic…”we are nothing but pimples on the ass of progress.”
Leadership Mashups: 100 Entrepreneur Attributes
View more presentations from AdamWalz.
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“The thirst for use cases by attendees at the conference was apparent” Oliver Marks commenti on the Enterprise 2.0 Conf http://bit.ly/sPK72
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It's time to go tribal...
Just found the greatest Monty Pythonesque elevator pitch for going tribal in the enterprise…
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“…pushing universities..to maximise financial returns to the university…is doomed to fail in the long run” Pg6 (PDF) http://bit.ly/nV4SF
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Tribalx.com
Have been fielding emails from folks who are curious about tribalX and want to know what it is/will be. We aren’t discussing anything publicly yet but Seth Godin’s TED talk provides a good introduction to the idea of Tribes. If you’re running short on time skip ahead to the 7 min. mark and watch from there.
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Hey @TheLal have to disagree…first thing I learned @ Oxford was CFIMITYM: Cash flow is more important than your mother!!!
And the winner is Pool.com who snagged tribalX.com for me. Kudos to Seth Godin for the naming inspiration hopefully we can make him proud!
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Emergent tribal behavior...
Seth Godin has pulled out a great YouTube video that demonstrates emergent tribal behavior. If you’re impatient forward to around the 50 second mark and watch what happens.
Seth Godin: Guy #3 Blog Post
Imagine what would happen if you could harness the same kind of tribal behaviour in the digital world. Some would say that is what crowd-sourcing attempts to accomplish, but a crowd...
Nice overview of emergent idea ecologies and the tools being used that aid in generation and management http://bit.ly/jNDKK
Ah…feels great to be working with some brilliant folks on a brilliant idea! Life Goal #1 - TICK
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Ireland, TTO's, S-curves & the Future
Just over a week ago I was at an SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) event for CSET directors, listening to my former colleagues (Mark Mawhinney & Sarah Macnaughton) from Oxford University’s Isis Innovation. During the talk Isis described the prototypical three stages that a technology transfer office has to progress through in order for it to reach a state of maturity. As I was listening...
I am using four different service providers to try and snag an expiring domain (GoDaddy, NameJet, Pool and SnapNames)…let’s see who wins!
Sites like Crunchbase and Younoodle make competitive analysis a whole lot easier than it used to be!
Chuckling at Seth Godin’s unicorn in the balloon factory metaphor (pg 72-Tribes) fun way to highlight pervasive organisational dysfunction!
Quote of the night by my dear wife…”I don’t like the smell of air!”. Huh, what the hell is she talking about?!?!?!
The O’Reilly white paper on the Web^2 is well worth a read…thank god there will be no Web 3.0!!! http://bit.ly/16EoAp (PDF)
Nothing better than a little Dr. DRE and some gangsta rap to pump things up! Listening to the family theme song…Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ thang!
Dear World please check back with me next week, if I haven’t finished my article on personal branding with @lkao please publically shame me!