Last week, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Mary Meeker of kpcb, one of techs most important investment companies, presented their view of the future of the web. As an investment company whose portfolio includes the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Spotify and Zynga just to name a few, they have to know where the web [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Creating a start-up culture in Ireland
There was an interesting article in The New York Times about how start-ups are the key to job creation. If that is the case what can we do in Ireland to create more start-ups? When we think of start-ups, especially in the technology sector, we think of young men tinkering away in their garage or [...]
Business in the Social World
Social networking has taken over the world on-line. When you look at some of the numbers, it’s simply staggering; Facebook has 800 million users; Groupon’s growth rate in June of this year was 2,241%. These huge companies didn’t exist 10 years ago. How did they do it? Can Irish businesses capitalize on the techniques they [...]
