Cork Open Coffee Friday 11th at 10am
This weeks Cork Open Coffee is in the Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus Bishopstown on Friday 11th from 10am – 12pm.This the last Cork Open Coffee of 2009.
There will be 2 demos on Friday. John Dennehy will be talking about his great time tracking application at http://www.assemblypoint.com and Paul Brugger will be talking about a new Twitter application called @Localnumber which allows you to search and instantly receive contact phone numbers for businesses types in your area through Twitter.
Some great coffee and nibbles will be there on the morning, free to all thanks to sponsorship from Paul Brugger from City Local Cork. The Coffee is from Mr Cotton Coffee and the nibbles are from Denise O Callaghans Delicious gluten free bakery.
Hope to see you all there tomorrow and feel free to bring any friends or other interested parties, ALL WELCOME.
Cork Open Coffee Friday the 13th
Hi OCCers,
This weeks Cork Open Coffee is in the Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus Bishopstown on Friday 13th from 10am – 12pm. It will be held downstairs in the lobby area as the Seminar Room is booked.
The demo slot will be taken up by one of our newest regulars, Israel Finnerty. Israel & his partner Dawn Manning will be showcasing their new company FireSale.ie – Ireland’s first Buy, Sell, Haggle & Auction website. The site will be previewed along with a discussion of the FireSale.ie opening event on November 20th in Corks Vision Centre.
Coffee and Delicious nibbles
Thanks to generous sponsorship from CityLocal Cork, there will be great coffee from Mr Cotton Coffee and some delicious freshly baked healthy foods from Delicious.ie available.
Barcamp Cork
The 3rd Cork Barcamp event is coming up on Saturday!! Barcamp is an “unconference\” aimed at stimulating contacts and idea generation amongst entrepreneurs, freelancers and business people. Attendance is free but if you are goi! ng to attend, please register at http://www.barcampcork.com/register/
Parking
There are some construction works going one outside the Rubicon centre this week so parking spaces will be reduced so arrive early or park elsewhere if you can to avoid problems.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
New Rubicon Center website
The Rubicon Center which hosts many of our Cork Open Coffee meetings has a grand spanking new website at http://www.rubiconcentre.ie/. Its a great looking site with some great imagery from around the Rubicon building. Cork Open Coffee is in their Useful Links section.
The site contains plenty of information about the range of services offered in the Rubicon. If you’re a start up business take a look at the Enterprise Start programme and the Genesis Enterprise programme.
Keep an eye on the Latest News section of the site for enrolments for these programmes and other goings on in the Rubicon. The Enterprise Start programme is taking enrolments right now.
The Admin section allows us to book the conference room for Friday mornings for Open Coffee demos, we’re booked in for the next few months so we’re well prepared for the next few meetings.
Rubicon Center Conference Room
Slides from The Embedded Entrepreneur
This morning Tom Doherty from Beyond Targets spoke to Corks Open Coffee about a concept called The Embedded Entrepreneur.
Toms talk, directed at Entrepreneurs encouraged those aiming to create a business to put their idea to the test as early as possible. Embed a pre-start entrepreneur in a host customers site for a fixed period of time and only launch a start-up once proof of concept has taken place within a host customer.
It was an excellent presentation and sparked plenty of conversation after the presentation. The slides of the presentation are below, thanks to Tom for sending them on.
Tom also mentioned an initiative he is running in Waterford called ExploreTech where a select number of technical people are brought together to focus on a specific objective. Based on the level of interest he is considering exploring this in Cork.
If you are interested, Contact Tom now as places are limited – Make direct contact with Tom Doherty at tom@beyondtargets.com or phone 0862574332 for an initial ExploreTech Cork meetup
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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.
Questions for Tom Keane?
As Tom had to fly off the other day, many people didn’t get a chance to ask him a question. Head on over to the eWrite Blog and Gordon will pass on any questions you have there.
SeedCamp Prep Session
Given the interest expressed in having a SeedCamp prep session, Gordon Murray has arranged a room in Oriel House Hotel in Ballincollig, Cork for Thursday August 7th starting at around 9am.
It will be quite informal, the aim is to get practical advice from each other on answering some of the questions on the application form so that you promote your business or idea as best as possible.
He’ll have printouts of the questions with him on the day. For anyone who’d like to work on it beforehand, here’s a link to the the Seedcamp application PDF.
Some further information about the Oriel house location over on his blog.
A note from Saul Klein
As many of you probably know, Saul Klein kicked off OpenCoffee in London early last year. Here is an email he sent to a lot of the organisers earlier. Some great stuff with a very nice plug for Ireland.
Wow. There are now over 80 of you all round the world (see www.opencoffeeclub.org) – its pretty amazing how its spread over the last year and we have new locations starting every month.
For those of you who’ve been hosting an OCC for sometime, you know that we’ve mentioned on a few occasions that it would be cool to have better communication between groups to better share contacts, learnings and just generally leverage the fact that we are now truly global to take the pulse of the startup community better worldwide.
In this spirit, and since I have been shamefully poor at getting this done, I wanted to introduce Alasdair & Michael who are on the Seedcamp team and are going to help me better administrate and add some value to our Ning network presence at www.opencoffeeclub.org.
Michael & Alasdair will be help me to better figure out best ways we can share between moderators — ideas in the past have been Facebook group, mailing list etc — so let us know what you think would work best and who’s up for it.
Some great stuff going on by the way, just to highlight a few locations:
- Greece is blooming and India is taking off
- Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris stay strong
- New York, Boulder and Boston are rocking
- We’re local in Czech and Russia
- Plus many many more… tell us your stories (Rachel copied, still gets regular press interest on the global story of OCC)
I also wanted to let you all know that Seedcamp applications are open at the moment – the deadline for applying is August 10th. We’d really appreciate it if you can spread the word to your local founders who are keen to access the network of mentors, validation and access to capital that Seedcamp provides. There is already some great OCC-Seedcamp action going on in our star early adopters in Ireland
We’d also love to invite any of you that would like to come along to Seedcamp week (Sept 15-19th) in London – last year was a blast and it would all the richer for the international perspective you all bring. Please let Michael, Alasdair or Reshma (who runs Seedcamp) know if you’d like to attend.
Thanks again for flying the OCC flag. I hope alls well with you, that you’re having a great middle of the year — who knows if its summer or winter where you are
Best
Saul
Want to help (or need help) applying to Seedcamp?
The is a re-post from Web2Ireland:
Gordon Murray of eWrite has come up with a brilliant suggestion for SeedCamp. He thinks we should crowdsource some of the applications. There are plenty of people who have experience in filling out application forms for the likes of Incubation Programmes, EI Grants, the SeedCorn competition etc. Why not use that expertise to help those applying to SeedCamp who may never have dealt with this sort of thing before?
So yet another call for interest. If there are sufficient numbers in Cork then Gordon will arrange a meeting room in the Oriel House Hotel in Ballincollig for a morning. Those who want to apply and those who want to help can come together, figure out a strong message for each applicant and hopefully help them do better in the process.
If it works well, there is no reason this can’t be repeated in Dublin and elsewhere.
Usual story, fill out the poll (this one is for Cork only!) and ideally leave a comment or mail Gordon (gordon AT ewrite DOT ie) with some info about yourself. This is a very short term thing so the poll will close on Friday.
Unfortunately the closing date for doing video pitches is Wednesday but hopefully that won’t stop people giving the webcam a go. Robin Blandford of Decisions for Heroes already has.