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An overview of the current economic climate in Ireland and why startups are probably our best hope. An outline of where we want to be in 5 years time and some goals along the way.
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Startups in Ireland,Where do we go from Here?
Joe Drumgoolehttp://twitter.com/jdrumgoole
Why Me?
Where are we?
Where do we want to go?
How do we get there?
Who remembers dotbomb?
Who remembers 1986?
Right Here, Right Now
The Bad News
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
The Good News
Starting
The Lost Year
Your First Paying Customer
Where do we want to go?
100 x 10mnot
10 x 100m
70 < 300 < 1000
How do we get there?
More CORD
Shorter Incubators
“We want companies that will do better with us, not companies that
will fail without us”
Paul Graham, Y-Combinator
100k
The world is not endingIts harder than it looksMore startups will help
It’
s up to You
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