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0061 - Start-up Pathways with Dermot Casey
Design Talk (dot IE)
English - February 01, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 25 MBTechnology Education technology design conversations creative software games ireland europe education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This talk was recorded on November 4th 2020.
In this episode I talk with Dermot Casey about the growth of digital start-ups in Ireland and supporting that crucial period of early stage business development.
At the time of recording Dermot had been working for the previous five years as a venture leader at the NDRC, Ireland’s National Digital Research Centre’s accelerator programme for digital start-ups. He has since co-established Resolve Partners, a venture consulting partnership, and then moved on to become the CEO for IRDG, a non-profit, business-led Innovation Network for member companies and colleges.
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OPENING
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Q: What does a venture leader’s working day look like?
Q: How does the NDRC support entrepreneurs and start-ups?
Q: Do start-ups use dev jams and design sprints to punctuate the business development cycle or do they end up doing rapid prototyping and development all the time?
Q: Does Ireland offer any unique advantages for start-ups? Is this a good time to start a digital savvy business?
Q: How do we deal with failure? How do we resolve that conflict between the desire for success and the almost inevitability of failure?
Mentions:
Des Traynor from Intercom reflecting on the transitions you make when scaling from being a start-up to being a company.
https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/lessons-learned-from-scaling-a-team/
Eamon Leonard, one of Ireland's most experienced tech founders:
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/eamon-leonard-named-irelands-net-visionary-2012
IxDA Dublin
http://ixda.ie
Samuel Beckett quote
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Web Summit: Founded in 2009, by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly and Daire Hickey, Web Summit was originally held in Dublin, Ireland, until 2016, when it moved to Lisbon.
https://websummit.com
The Gini index for Ireland
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=IE
Gini index (World Bank estimate – smaller may be read as less inequality. The Gini index is a measure of statistical dispersion of income inequality or wealth inequality within a nation or any other group of people. The measure was developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini)
Thirty-Two Words for Field
http://manchan.com/32-words-for-field
Acknowledgements
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Title: “It was just cold”
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