Create Ireland

It’s surprising how my one-to-one meetings generate ideas and leads. I don’t consider them enough:

1. Make sure your web site is straight to the point, looks good and easy to use
2. It’s a good reason to stick to pricing structure if you have a new, unique, and innovative product.
3. Entrepreneurs need external group dynamics to understand how their business is viewed by customers
4. SMEs need to get into R&D. Financial/fiscal, product development and organizational benefits exist
5. Caretakers should be appointed to start-ups. Focus on lean & mean execution aware on how to subsequently scale the business
6. The digital media sector needs more recognition by the Irish state. Where are the consolidated policies?
7. Irish stakeholders are so protective of their patch. We need to bundle skills to address new convergent opportunities
8. Sales, sales, sales. We all have to be better at selling.
9. There are likely to be 3 age groups of entrepreneurs that look at each other differently.
10. Unemployed people trained under Labour Activation Schemes should be matched with companies selected under all Enterprise Platform Programmes
11. Clear need of one central portal pushing digital media in Ireland. On all front and across all vertical areas
12. Linkedin need to better used but user interface is restrictive. What white-label social network exist?

Time to plan Create 2010-2011 using these thoughts, Fred

Here are my thoughts:

• Digital Media sector needs more consolidation, partnerships, and discussions as my competitor is interviewing individuals who didn’t make our short-list.
• Selected companies for 2010-2011 applied with prototype and/or ever-changing business plan
• Cluster effect managed via Create and developed over 6 years needs to be fully exploited
• Group mix can be of huge benefits
• Programme should link with interested complementary clusters (design, animation, 3D, production,…)

The selected companies are to be announced over the next few days, Fred