Comments on: Cork OpenCoffee Club Announcement

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:24:52 +0000

Thanks all, I think it’s going to be an interesting two hours. I’ll be in a BarCamp Ireland t-shirt if anyone wants to identify me!

By: keith bohanna

keith bohanna — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:36:14 +0000

Flip – going to be in Cork later tomorrow evening with my brother and two of our kids so would have found time if it was an evening event.

Enjoy lads (and ladies?)

keith

By: walter

walter — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:29:36 +0000

Hope to see ye there.

Walter

By: Eoghan McCabe

Eoghan McCabe — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:37:09 +0000

Hope it goes really well, Conor.

By: Naive by Design | More OpenCoffee Clubs in Dublin and Cork

Naive by Design | More OpenCoffee Clubs in Dublin and Cork — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:26:55 +0000

[...] you’re closer to Cork than you are to Dublin, you might consider heading that way tomorrow. Conor O’Neill is holding an OpenCoffe Club in Luigi Malone’s in Cork City. Looks like there’ll be a good bunch going. Posted on 15 March, 2007 at 5:25 pm and tagged [...]

By: EirePreneur

EirePreneur — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:59:46 +0000

The Serendipity of OpenCoffee…

I don’t often promote comments to full posts but this wonderful ancedote from Jan Blanchard of touristr deserves the bump up –Something strange happened to me for the last one. I went to the Clarion Hotel, looked around for some…

By: Dillon Thomas

Dillon Thomas — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:11:15 +0000

Big thumbs up for the initiative.
I hope it goes really well.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:16:35 +0000

10am is a bit early for us culshies, and I’d prefer an OpenPints night meself anyway.

By: John Prendergast

John Prendergast — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:06:54 +0000

Great idea Conor!

Looking forward to the kick off.
I’ll be there…

JohnP

By: Cork OpenCoffee Club at Roam4free

Cork OpenCoffee Club at Roam4free — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:18:53 +0000

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By: Larry Ryan

Larry Ryan — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:12:01 +0000

All going well, I hope to make it along Conor.

By: Paul Sweeney

Paul Sweeney — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:22:07 +0000

Can’t make the first meeting conor as in Dublin. But would love to attend future events.

By: Conor

Conor — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:54:53 +0000

That’s great advice James, thanks.

I like the idea of photos but we need to be careful not to snap anyone mitching

I’ve also been contacting people directly who don’t necessarily read this blog and I hope we can draw in lots of people from outside the Irish blogosphere.

We could have 5 people on Friday or 30 but irrespective I hope we keep coming up with ideas for getting a good spread of people involved.

By: James Corbett

James Corbett — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:47:09 +0000

Well done on getting this off the ground. I would advise not worrying about the number of people who show up the first week… and to determine that you would continue doing it for a number of weeks regardless.

That was the advice Dave Winer once gave about organising geek meets, and he was quite right. He said you should just blog about it – where it’s on and when and then blog about it afterwards explaining who showed up and what you talked about, posting a few photos too. Then just do the same again on the following occasion, and the following… and eventually people will start coming along out of curiosity if nothing else!

Of course it could well be that you get off to a ‘big bang’ start in which case you can happily ignore all of the above

By: Conor

Conor — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:43:22 +0000

Pity you can’t make it but hopefully we’ll be having them regularly so we’ll catch you at one of the future ones.

As predicted by several people I talked to beforehand, VC in Ireland really isn’t interested in early stage tech funding so the focus must be on Angels and other sources.

I have been impressed with the work that CorkBIC are doing in this area with the BAP and I hope their pool of investors grows quickly.

The key thing needed is lots and lots of high profile successes. Iona was a lonnnnnnnggggg time ago and we’re not going to have monthly Stockbytes. I would love to see regular Ã¢â€šÂ¬3m-Ã¢â€šÂ¬10m exits in the Irish tech space to keep the buzz going and draw in more entrepreneurs and more investors.

One point that was made to me this morning was the silver lining aspect of the Motorola shut-down. Hopefully we’ll see a burst of start-ups down here being built using the redundancy packages that people received. The ideal would be for those companies to end up employing more than Moto ever did.