Cork Open Coffee Friday May 29th
This weeks Cork Open Coffee, Friday May 29th is in the Rubicon building next to CIT from 10am-12pm.
Here is a basic map to the Rubicon Center. http://www.comhar.com/Direct_Rubicon_Centre.html
The demo/talk slot is from Joe Walsh from Empart Technologies. Impart technologies provide situational based assessment using standard Internet based tools.
Joes business has recently been accepted on to the Genesis Enterprise programme in the Rubicon and would like to share the businesses plans so far with Cork Open Coffee and hear your views.
Thanks again to the Rubicon for kindly hosting us.
See you there,
Gordon.
Cork Open Coffee Friday May 1st
The next Open Coffee is on this Friday the 1st of May in the Rubicon at 10am.
Catherine Wilson will be doing a demo on the MyMunster.com site. The site has recently been relaunched and looking for feedback on design and suggested revenue models.
As always, if you know anyone that would be interested in attending Open Coffee please invite them along or forward this email.
See you Friday
Cork Open Coffee March 20th
This weeks Cork Open Coffee will be in Nosh + Coffee, Careys Lane (Just off Patricks Street) in Cork at the usual time of 10am.
There are no presentations this time, we’re trying out a new location after Luigi Malones don’t seem to like having customers.
Some reviews of Nosh + Coffee:
See you there!
Minehane Chartered Accountants at Open Coffee this Friday.
The next Open Coffee is on this Friday the 6th in the Rubicon at 10am. Michael Minehane from Minehane Chartered Accountants will talk about corporation tax and R&D rules for Irish businesses followed by Q & A.
Book Swap
If anyone would like to swap some business books or recommended reading, please bring them along. I will bring along “The mythical man month” and “Once you’re lucky, Twice you’re good” if anyone would like to borrow them for a while.
Mr Cotton Coffee
Coffee will be supplied by Mr Cotton this week at Open Coffee. There will be flasks of the good stuff for us to dig in to during the morning. There was plenty of change left over from the last Open Coffee in Luigi’s which pays for it. The Mr. Cotton van will also be outside from around 11.15 onwards for espressos, cappuccinos etc.
As always, Open Coffee is open to all so feel free to bring people along. If you are interested in presenting your product or service at Open Coffee, we’d love to hear from you at corkopencoffee@gmail.com
An Open Coffee collaboration
At some point every start-up will need documents to be written such as a Requirements document or a Business plan to explain their ideas to developers and investors.
Google may be a first port of call. It will provide you with many useful avenues to explore. As Open Coffee members I feel we have a great opportunity to collaborate to make solid and well rounded guidelines for anyone to use to promote their own ideas.
Any input from those of you who have business plans that served you well in the past is especially appreciated.
The best way I can think to do this is to start off with two documents using Google Docs. To be added as collaborators to the documents, please email me at gordon at ewrite dot ie.
Recommended Reading
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgt8d8k9_25f9qcp4cm
Concept Document
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgt8d8k9_17gn9z8zgx
Business Plan
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgt8d8k9_18hdtd42dz
NDA
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgt8d8k9_19d5g7ftf3
Tax Treatment of Share Options
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgt8d8k9_244d2bznv4
Shareholders agreement template
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgt8d8k9_23dqkm35c2
Director Memorandum template
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgt8d8k9_22gstvp3db
