Category Archives: Community

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]