Angel investment gives you wiiiings
While Northern Ireland currently has one very strong angel investor network in Halo does this lack of competition actually hinder our startups chances of securing funding quickly, if at all, rather than help them? Continue reading
Tagged angel, competition, funding, Halo, investment, investor, paul graham, seedcorn, startups
Don't kill creativity
With the Digital Circle (DC) elections now done and dusted I felt it was timely to jot down my thoughts about encouraging creativity as its is broadly linked. Further stimulus arrived on Monday by way of a tweet from one of the newly elected members of the steering group. While this post isn’t aimed specifically at the work of that fine institution, there are parallels to some of the ideas raised. DC is involved in the business of supporting digital creativity in all forms after all. I am drawing shamelessly from the work of Teresa M. Amabile as well as on my own experiences from various roles. Continue reading
Tagged amabile, challenge, creativity, digital circle, freedom, guardian, innovation, intrinsic, kill, money, motivation, resources
Today I had the pleasure of spending my lunch break chatting with Crafty Devil‘s Rich Dale about the upcoming demo of their Planzai web app at Showcase. I was aware that they had been working on a tool aimed at helping up and coming bands and musicians get off the ground, what I actually saw simply blew me away. Continue reading
An off the cuff response to Mark Nagurski following a comment he had made on my recent post “Invented here syndrome; Demand attention” led me to waking up one morning at 5 am with a crazy plan. I have spent the last number of days formulating and developing that plan further. So here goes.
Tagged bbc, business, buzz, funding, geeks, gods, media, northern ireland, project athene, projectathene, showcase, syncni, tech, traction, utv
I have just returned from a great night at Code4Pizza were I had the pleasure of meeting some really switched on people wanting to do stuff just to help people. That’s a pretty good reason in my book. We need more of it in this country. I guess its what people did before David Cameron invented the “big society“. Continue reading
Tagged Android, app, big society, call to action, code4pizza, mencap, mobile, rnli, skunkworks, tech, translink