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Eoghan Jennings was CFO at Xing, one of the very few European Tech companies that went public, before joining Parklane Capital. But that’s not all, he’s also running StartupBootcamp Dublin, whose first edition is starting very soon. Eoghan understands early stage and will be a very useful guy to have nearby as you’re developing your concept.
Martin is a partner at IBM's Venture Capital group. He's very much involved in the startup world, and also leads the global rollout of the SmartCamps, a networking event aimed at identifying early stage startups that align with IBM Smarter Planet vision.
Will is a partner at NCB Ventures. At the moment he's a non-executive director in 4 companies of NCB's portfolio. NCB Ventures invests across all development stages from early stage and expansion through to management buy-out.
Shay is a partner at Delta Partners and has been for the last 18 years. Delta Partners is a venture capital firm investing primarily in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Delta is among the most active early stage investors in Europe.
If you’ve ever been to any Startup event in Dublin, you’ve met Josh. He’s the Architect Evangelist in Ireland for Microsoft. Josh has a very wide range of interests, that are not limited to Microsoft products, and he’s passionate by keeping things simple. If you need solutions to a problem, Josh will have something for you.
Conor O'Connor joined Enterprise Equity in 1991. He was appointed Chief Executive in 1996. A Chartered Accountant he completed his training with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Dublin. He has spent his entire career to date in the Corporate Finance/Venture Capital field. He has led, structured and negotiated numerous venture capital investments and had corporate advisory experience involving flotations and mergers/acquisitions.
He is a director of several Enterprise Equity Investee companies and served two terms as Chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association as well as representing Ireland on the Board of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA).
We want international exposure for your products. Liam is founder and blogger at The rude Baguette, an English-speaking blog on startups based in Paris. Liam has been covering European startups extensively for a while and he’ll be able to tell you about what’s happening in your space, as well as how to pitch your product to the press.
Very few people have done as much for the Dublin startup ecosystem as Eamon. He brings people together at PubStandards, runs a very high-profile conference (Funconf) and sold his company, Orchestra.io, to EngineYard. Orchestra’s HQ on Barrow Street has already become a hub for startup events.
Pat Phelan is the founder and Director of Products and Innovation at Cubic Telecom. Pat is a profit-driven, get-it-done visionary who delivers business results by harnessing opportunities, creating energized teams, and building strong stakeholder partnerships. A solid track record of building and leading teams to positive outcomes. Pat has a keen interest in social media and is technical blogger of the year in Ireland, Winner of a number of innovation awards, the 2008 IIA & Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary Award, Ireland's most beautiful website from The Irish Web awards and 2007 Emerging company of the year from IT @Cork. Pat was also a Techcrunch 50 finalist in the events inaugural year.
Peter founded & exited Webzone Limited (which owns carzone.ie Ireland's number 1 car website) and is now a consultant on internet visibility.
He's the CEO and co-founder of Profitero, a pricing intelligence service for retailers. Volodymyr gained sales and operational experience at Google, Microsoft and Accenture.
Frederic is currently an advisor at Furious Tribe as well as Enterprise Development Executive & Enterprise Platform Programme Manager at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Arts, Design, and Technology.
Michael is founder and CEO of OnePageCRM. He also co-owned Cucoco and was a Senior Research Engineer at Bio Medical Research.
Joe is a product development expert with over 20 years experience in the field. He's also an expert in cloud computing and one of the first users of Amazon cloud in Europe. He's an outstanding team builder who has created successful product teams in both small and large companies.
Ed is CEO at of CloudVertical and founder of Digital Mines. As such, he's an expert in cloud computing.
An experienced international business professional focusing on stimulating entrepreneurship, developing business strategies and enabling change. Mary works with companies advising in strategic direction and the rationalisation of the core business operations coupled with making operations and product development leaner. Mary is a Lean advocate using various Lean Methdologies and is the organiser of Lean Startup Dublin. She has a strong technical background with a 20+ year track-record of achievement in technology, corporate software and the financial services sector. She works across many sectors including corporate, SME’s, government bodies, not-for-profit organizations, start-ups, innovation and incubation centres both in Ireland and Internationally.
Anatoly Lebedev manages an Online Operations team at Google helping companies in Emerging Markets to grow their businesses using AdWords and assisting publishers with content monetization via AdSense. Anatoly frequently interacts with startups and helps them to build their online marketing strategy. Anatoly has both technical background and solid business development skills with over 9 years experience in the Information technology field.
Sean is an accomplished technology entrepreneur with multiple startup successes. His core expertise is in gaming industry, with multiple founder and CTO roles in DemonWare, Front Square, Jolt Online and more. He's also a very strong leader and communicator, with deep expertise in software engineering.
Michael's current focus is very much on productivity, being founder and CEO of the web-based productivity app Nozbe and chief editor of Productive! Magazine. He's experienced in all things web, including digital marketing, web development and online payments.
Teams having been working hard. We slowly start to see products being launched and twitter accounts being populated. Here is a summary of what we have so far: Pay Forward (@jink_it): Platform to track chains of good actions Care Copilot (@carecopilot) : Colaborative care giving Coder Dojang (@coderdojang) : Coder Dojo for crusty old people [...]
We started the day at 8am this morning, after most teams working late in the night! As we all know, building the right thing is great but building it right is even better. We start the day with a workshop on Design Thinking and prototyping. How to build low cost, efficient prototypes. Everybody’s very focused. [...]
So after listening to more than 40 pitches, 14 teams have been picked to move on to the next stage of the weekend. Congrats! Everybody who pitched did a great job and there’s a lot of excitement in the room. Here are the list of concepts that have made it through: Pay it forward, track [...]
We’ve already told you about our judging criteria, now it’s time for you to know who is going to judge your products. We’re really proud to introduce you to our 4 very experienced judges! They all get early stage and they will be able to give you the right amount of tough love required when [...]
For all of you who are going to pitch at the Weekend, first of all: congrats! Great that you’ve decided to bring your best idea and give it a chance of being built. If you’re still not sure, go ahead, it’s a great exercise and there will only be friendly people in the room. So [...]
As you might have read already, Startup Weekend Dublin is now sold out. There will be food, coffee, presents for everyone and some really cool prize for the winning team, all of which wouldn’t be possible without the support of Startup Weekend Global Sponsors and our local sponsors. Today, we’d like to introduce you to [...]
As you might know, the Startup Weekend is not just a cool and geeky meetup where startups are born, it’s also a cruel and fierce competition. Three teams will make it to the podium, and only one will be elected “best startup”. Here are the judging criteria. The Startup Weekend judging criteria is broken [...]
This is our last post introducing our mentors. It took us 3 posts to get there because a lot of great mentors are going to pay you a visit during the weekend! So without further ado, here is the final names: Michael FitzGerald A Design Engineer by trade and problem solver by nature, Michael’s strength [...]
A couple of weeks ago, we started introducing you to our mentors. We went through the first 4 of them but over the weekend, you’ll have a chance to ask questions to many more experienced people. And believe it or not, the list will still not be complete after this post. Pat Phelan Pat Phelan [...]
Before we announce a new batch of mentors later this week, we wanted to give you more information about what Startup Weekend Dublin’s winning team will receive. Dublin Web Summit Tickets DWS is the heart and soul of the Irish startups scene. You’ve all heard about it and its long lists of amazing speakers. It’s [...]
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