Business issues discussed over last 2 days/5 meetings
20 Aug 2010 by fredherrera
It’s surprising how my one-to-one meetings generate ideas and leads. I don’t consider them enough:
- Make sure your web site is straight to the point, looks good and easy to use
- It’s a good reason to stick to pricing structure if you have a new, unique, and innovative product.
- Entrepreneurs need external group dynamics to understand how their business is viewed by customers
- SMEs need to get into R&D. Financial/fiscal, product development and organizational benefits exist
- Caretakers should be appointed to start-ups. Focus on lean & mean execution aware on how to subsequently scale the business
- The digital media sector needs more recognition by the Irish state. Where are the consolidated policies?
- Irish stakeholders are so protective of their patch. We need to bundle skills to address new convergent opportunities
- Sales, sales, sales. We all have to be better at selling.
- There are likely to be 3 age groups of entrepreneurs that look at each other differently.
- Unemployed people trained under Labour Activation Schemes should be matched with companies selected under all Enterprise Platform Programmes
- Clear need of one central portal pushing digital media in Ireland. On all front and across all vertical areas
- 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
Good post Fred. Keep them coming. Hope all is going well with Create 2010-2011. Be keen to share some insight re: social networking options for the start-up groups.
Ray
October 8, 2010
3:25 pm
Think linkedin is getting much better with sharing features.
Paul
November 1, 2010
10:23 pm
I have read your two last posts and you mention some very good points.
There needs to be more recognition of digital media in Ireland. People have to realise the potential that exists. Many UK and US based digital media companies are huge organisations that employ thousands of people with turnover in the hundreds of millions. Why can’t Ireland have many companies like this? The reality is we can. We focus so much on multinationals like Facebook, Google, Linkedin, Twitter etc locating their European headquarters here but sometimes forget the potential that exists among Irish businesses.
What is stopping young Irish start-ups from growing their digital media network and launching worldwide, as opposed to focusing mainly on the Irish market. We really need to start looking at this.
I would love to hear your thoughts Fred and that of anyone else.
Colin
January 18, 2011
1:02 pm
Thanks all. Apologies for late acceptance of your comments. @ Colin. I’m offering straight internationalisation of small digital media companies in the 2011 Create programme starting in April. It’ll be done via specialisalist regional clusters partnering with the Create programme. Fred
fredherrera
March 4, 2011
12:56 am