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Comment on Why I’m probably not heading to anymore Irish Tech Summits by Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:54:36 +0000

Ha, nice point and thanks Kieran!

Comment on Why I’m probably not heading to anymore Irish Tech Summits by Kieran

Kieran — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:17:25 +0000

Bucking the Des trend.

Like that post Jim and plenty of home truths.

What I find particularly nauseating is the speakers all have their startup mantra, the one key secret which ensured their success. As a startup, you must become a disciple of the speakers mantra or face ruin, starvation and public flogging for the rest of your miserable existence.

The delivred mantra is packaged in easily consumed, bite sized chunks of wisdom – “tell stories”, “engage your customers” etc etc.

If you were to take on board all these chesnuts over the course of, say, a one day summit and add them all up into a strategy you would end up pretty much running around trying to do everything conceivable. Which is what you are already doing … because you are a startup. So, congratulations, you already have a strategy plan that encompasses all the wisdom of all the startup gurus doing the circuit.

Relax, you’re on the road to success.

Comment on Google app engine – django vs grails by Akshay Arabolu

Akshay Arabolu — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:04:47 +0000

Hi Jim,

Just came across this comparison of yours between Grails vs Django in GAE. Great article. Wanted to know if you’d like to feature it on getcomparisons.com? A project we’ve started to house all the best product comparisons on the web under one roof. You can back-link to this original article of course. Check it out, and if you’re interested, I will send you an invite.

Cheers,
Akshay Arabolu, Founder

Comment on Why I’m probably not heading to anymore Irish Tech Summits by Des

Des — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:32:51 +0000

This blog is attracting Des’s! There is a place for these enterprise start sessions (early stage and idea generation), but the contributors cannot lose sight of staying energised. It reminds me somewhat of another Des!! Des Bishop the comedian, he is continually refreshing his material, a joke heard the first time, funny, second time, amusing, third time, I can’t listen to this guy anymore.. Therefore Mr Bishop keeps it fresh, suppose he has to, or else he will not earn a living. You have to question who is paying these entrepreneurs (for want of a better description) to show up and roll out the same hat…

Comment on Why I’m probably not heading to anymore Irish Tech Summits by Nick

Nick — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:23:11 +0000

From my limited experience, if you’re smart enough to run a successful startup your probably smart enough to not need these events. Most of the advice is common sense, if you have a specific question you can likely get some good responses though.

People think they can short circuit the hard work by finding out some silver bullet at these events.

Comment on Why I’m probably not heading to anymore Irish Tech Summits by Andre

Andre — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:26:04 +0000

I agree with you Jim… having been to a few of these confs/events I attended one of the DWS events about a year ago… pretty much ALL of the presentations had the same old 3/4/5 bullet points about how to succeed with a startup… and for the most part, nothing that you can’t grab from any 2 bit self help, wanna-be Entrepreneur book… It is difficult to get any real valuable nuggets.

Also, difficult to take some of the info when it comes from guys who had a one-hit followed by many flops… and often the “hit” was let’s face it down to a lot of luck during times when money was being thrown at anything with a website!

A wanna-be

Comment on Why I’m probably not heading to anymore Irish Tech Summits by Eoin

Eoin — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:32:44 +0000

My two cents: the latest web summit was not very engrossing, the stories were the same and there was not much insight to be garnered, especially if you’ve been to a previous summit. The boot camp in the morning had some interesting pieces of information though a few speakers spent a little too much time plugging their products instead of talking about their experiences and giving out advice.

Comment on Why I’m probably not heading to anymore Irish Tech Summits by Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:32:09 +0000

Hi Des,

I like Contrast’s stuff. Glad to hear that you agree to some degree aswell but it moves to serious diminishing returns after a summit or two and I don’t really see the value in it anymore. Cheers for the link, will check it out.

Comment on Why I’m probably not heading to anymore Irish Tech Summits by Des Traynor

Des Traynor — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:19:28 +0000

I left the Dublin Web Summit after I spoke to get back to it. In this case “it” was a client project that funds our development time on things like Exceptional.

I think when you’re starting out there is value in hearing a few of the regular circuit talks, but it definitely diminishes. In addition, I think Ireland is somewhat lacking in recent web start-ups, we can’t live off the successes of Stockbyte, Hostelworld and Daft forever. So there is definitely value in heading abroad to catch a talk or two.

A great post along the lines of what you said was is this one http://blog.amirkhella.com/2011/02/23/what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me-5-years-ago/
Key quote: “I no longer confuse going to entrepreneurship events with being an entrepreneur.”

Hope my talk didn’t bore ya too much

Comment on Pivoting like a pivert by Caomhan

Caomhan — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:56:42 +0000

Irish entrepreneur also pivoting like a pervert http://bit.ly/i7uBYJ read a little about us here.. add me on skype caomhan27 would love a chat about startup life back in Ireland!