is meeting on Wednesday the
26th of August 2009
at 11am
in the
Innovation in Business Center,
Castlebar
We will have a more formal meeting, as I will be presenting my new Project “Pixel4Startups”. I am looking forward to your feedback.
The presentation will be about 10 Minutes with a discussion round afterwards. In addition to that everyone is welcome to bring ideas and questions to talk about.
Please bring friends and leave a comment if you plan to attend, thx. See you there.
19.Aug.09 
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A new project is about to start and will probably go online end of the month. Pixel 4 Startups takes up the idea of the Million Dollar Homepage. One pixel will cost 1€ for one year and 2€ for a lifetime ad. The minimum ad size is 5×5 pixel. 70% of the money will be reinvested into start-ups. Start-ups will be able to apply for amounts up to 50.000€, but smaller shares are also possible and welcome.
The difference to the original is certainly that the money will be mostly re-invested. Another difference will be that a large tool-tip will appear, when somebody hovers over an ad, so that even small ads will have a better exposure.
What do you think of that idea? Would you buy an ad? Tell us your thoughts and get a free 100pixel ad for 6 months…
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At the last meeting on the 12th of August 2009 in the the Royal T.F. only four Mayo-based entrepreneurs attended. Unfortunately no new faces were seen. The attendants were: Paul Cunnane from Westnet, John Moran from mayoplus.ie, Frank Samms from Eirecast / Westerly Visions and myself.
Paul announced that they had set up a new sector on Achill Island, giving broadband access to nearly the whole island now (unfortunately still except The Valley, Dugort East and parts of Cashel). Dooagh and Keel had been connected in early summer. About a month ago a deflector on Corraun was activated, covering the village of Corraun, Cloghmore and Dereens. The sector that was added lately covers Dooega and Achill Sound. I will give an update on the exacto coverage on the Achill Online Internet Solutions Blog as soon as Paul has sent me some more details.
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is meeting on Wednesday the
12th of August 2009
at 11am
in the
Royal Theatre Pub,
Castlebar
We will have an informal meeting, but everyone is welcome to bring ideas and questions to talk about.
Please bring friends and leave a comment if you plan to attend, thx. See you there.
06.Aug.09 Events Read more Comments (0)
Speaker of this Years Event is going to be John Quinn from Surface Power, Tourmakeady in Co. Mayo, who is a start-up veteran across the US and Europe with 20 years experience in general operation and global manufacturing management and holds world technology patents.
He was finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2002 and Winner of the All-Ireland Innovation Award in 2003. He is a judge on the world’s largest Innovation challenge in the USA, a Council Member of the Irish Wind Energy Association and an Advisor to several Government functions and Government Clean-Tech Policy.
John will talk about his experience of setting-up and running his own business emphasising the highs and lows encountered along his entrepreneurial journey and highlighting the secrets of his entrepreneurial success.
After each seminar, attendees have the opportunity to ask probing questions of the guest entrepreneur.
The Event will take place at 6pm on Thurs 10th Sept in either the GMIT or IiBC (depending on numbers).
Anyone interested, please register at iibccastlebar {at} gmit(.)ie
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Kiltimagh’s Cairn Centre sets the standards in quality.
Looking for top class office space? Well look no further than the Cairn International Trade Centre in Kiltimagh. Located on the Swinford Road and adjacent to the Park Hotel the newly completed building boasts 15 suites of state of the art office space ranging in size from 100 – 300 sq. metres. Each suite can accommodate from 8 to 25 people depending on the operational configuration and suites can be combined to give a larger space.
Each individual suite has:
- Air conditioned heating and cooling.
- Access to DSL, Wireless and Fibre based Broadband with speeds up to 1000 Mbit. (1 Gbit) over the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
- Private toilet and shower facilities.
- Adaptability to suit the needs of each individual client.
- Separate metering for all services.
04.Aug.09 General Read more Comments (0)
Last Thursday, on July the 30th, 2009 I attended the Cruisecamp organised by Johnny Beirne from DownloadMusic. It was fantastic!
The cruise started in Carrick-on-Shannon, heading up and down the Shannon for about 45min each way, to give the nearly 75 attendants a pleasurable 3 hour event. The Cruiser itself was sponsored by the Leitrim County Enterprise Board. A little, but very tasty snack was sponsored and served by The Country Cooking Company and other spot prizes were offered by Reverb Studios, Absolute Safety, Leitrim Design House, Gilroy & Murphy Solar Systems and Wispy’s Discount Stores.
The event started at 6pm sharp with the boat leaving Carrick and some food beeing served. Afterwards James marting from TeamLife hosted a networking Bingo, in which we had to fill out a card with 12 questions like for example “Who has Blue Eyes?” or “Who has been abroad in the last 4 weeks?”, giving the name, company and hobby of the person as an answer. This game was great, as it mixed the tables again, that had firmely settled for the food.
After the Bingo, networking went on all over the boat, at the bar (where unfortunately a pint cost 4.40€), at the tables and on the fore and aft deck. I got to talk to about a dozend people, making some very intersting contacts. I believe that it was overall a very successfull event for all attendants.
I will certainly be going to the next event again and I hope it’ll maybe run for an hour more.
03.Aug.09 General Read more Comments (2)
Sorry for this short report coming so late, but I was quite busy with attending the Cruisecamp in Carrick-On-Shannon and in addition some not so pleasant private things came up, too.
The 12th Mayo Open Coffee Club meeting was held on the 29th of July in the IiBC in Castlebar amongst the eleven attending, there were three new faces:
We also saw a few faces, we hadn’t seen for a while, like Frank Samms from Eircast and Sean McGuire from Aniar IT Services.
It was an interesting round and a good mixture of open discussion and questions. One thing put forward for discussion was Frank Samms idea of a vertical mouse pad, which he wanted to be made out of recyclable materials.
I asked the question, if a summer break for the Open Coffee Club was a good idea. Al Steger-Lewis from mylifelists gave a very short answer to that: The Open Coffee Club is supposed to meet on a regular base, even if there is only one showing up… You’re right Al, how could I forget 
The the question of an Open Coffee Club BBQ some-when in September came up again, the response was mixed and not very energetic. It seems that quite a few people would attend, but nobody really wanted to commit to the organisation, except Frank Samms. Anyway, we want to go for it, so whoever wants to join the comittee, please contact me.
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