WebMission to Silicon Valley
Last year’s very successful WebMission by UK startups to Silicon Valley followed in the footsteps of the equally successful Paddy’s Valley several months previously. I’ve been contacted by James Lawn to let everyone know that Irish start-ups are very welcome on this year’s trip.
They want to bring UK & Ireland’s top 20 fast-growing Enterprise Web Companies to San Francisco from 28 Mar to 3 Apr. Some good sponsorship means that you’d only have to pay for your flight and hotel. A word in the ear of your Enterprise Ireland D.A. may even cover half of that.
I have to say, the trip looks fantastic. This is what you can expect:
- Facilitated meetings with key US investors
- Meet and mingle with key Silicon Valley movers and shakers relevant to your organisation and growth plans
- Discuss your business with leading journalists
- Spend quality time with like-minded people in the valley
- Explore how to succeed and grow in the US market
- Attend Web 2.0 Expo which occurs during the same week
- Significant VP-level engagement with WebMission sponsors
The entry requirements are as follows:
- Be an Enterprise 2.0 company
- Be innovative
- Be headquartered in the UK or Ireland
- Have 2 years trading history, or failing that, compelling fast-track potential through management team etc
- Be able to provide references from key sponsors/industry players
- Able to demonstrate some commitment to sustainable business practices (eg, positive environmental, social or economic outputs)
- Be ready to do or grow business in the US OR potentially attractive to a US investor.
If you’d like to apply, have a look at www.webmission.co.uk
New Blog Header
We have a lovely new custom Cork OpenCoffee blog header courtesy of Brian Clayton. Thanks Brian and thanks to Joe Scanlon for organising!
Now to fix the headers in the sub-pages. Anyone, anyone?
UPDATE: Big thanks to Ann Donnelly for sorting out the header for us.
Videos from OCC Today
Ciara from FindaConferenceVenue got some amazing feedback from the OCC crew today. Whilst I used an external mic, I’m not sure it was any better than the built-in one for volume.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Demo tomorrow at OCC is FindaConferenceVenue.com
Ciara Feely is an expert on venues in Ireland, she established FindaConferenceVenue.com in 2007 and launched this as a venue-finding website. It is the largest and most detailed database of venues in Ireland with over 500 listed.
Ciara would like to do a short demo in order to gain feedback on the site. She is about to introduce changes to the site and would like to get an idea of usability of these.
Kilkenny’s First OCC
Delighted to hear that the KK crew are finally having an OpenCoffee at 11.30 this morning in the Kilkenny Cafe located downstairs in Market Cross Shopping Centre.
They join Cork, Limerick, Dublin, Waterford, Belfast and Galway as an OCC location.
If you are based anywhere in the South-East, it’ll be worth checking out. Hopefully they’ll have attendees from Wexford, Waterford, Carlow, Tipperary, Offaly etc.
First set of dates for Cork OCC in 2009
Our first OpenCoffee is Friday 9th in the Rubicon Centre in CIT, this gives us the following dates for the next few months. I’ll put these on Upcoming.org too so you can add them to your calendar and auto-monitor for changes.
If you’d like to host any of the TBD locations or even replace any Luigi one, just let us know on corkopencoffee AT gmail DOT com
- 09/01: Location = Rubicon. Organiser = Ciara Crossan
- 23/01: Location = Luigi Malone’s. Organiser = Conor O’Neill
- 06/02: Location = Rubicon. Organiser = Gordon Murray
- 20/02: Location = TBD. Organiser = Ciara Crossan
- 06/03: Location = Rubicon. Organiser = Conor O’Neill
- 20/03:Location = Luigi Malone’s. Organiser = Gordon Murray
- 03/04: Location = Rubicon. Organiser = Ciara Crossan
- 17/04: Location = TBD. Organiser = Conor O’Neill
- 01/05: Location = Rubicon. Organiser = Gordon Murray
- 15/05: Location = Luigi Malone’s. Organiser = Ciara Crossan
- 29/05: Location = Rubicon. Organiser = Conor O’Neill
First Open Coffee of 2009 in Cork
Happy New Year to all, hope you are refreshed, revived and full of vigor and enthusiasm for what 2009 has to offer all of us flegling businesses in the Cork area!
The first OCC of 2009 is on this Friday, the 9th January in the Rubicon Centre in CIT at our usual time of 10am-12pm.
We want to have a brainstorming session for ideas for improvements for the group itself or ideas of events/additions that we can implement in 2009. So have a think over the next few days and come armed with fresh ideas!
If anyone would like to take the demo slot, please leave a comment below.
Looking forward to seeing you all there. As always, OCC is OPEN, so if you know of any other businesses or individuals who might be interested in coming along, please forward them this post.
See you Friday!
Ciara
