Tag: ireland

  • It is surprisingly easy to leave yourself open to claims of Greenwashing!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Companies need to take a lot of care when making Green claims. The whole Green energy space is massively complex and it is surprisingly easy to leave yourself open to claims of Greenwashing. What do I mean? Well, take the Irish energy sector, for example. Anyone who generates electricity in Ireland, which is to be…

  • Lisbon Treaty exit poll

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    Tom Raftery
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    I voted in the Lisbon Treaty this morning. Probably my last time voting in this country (as I am moving to Spain next week!). I’m curious, if I run a poll here and enough people respond truthfully, we should get an accurate exit poll! So, if you voted in the Lisbon Treaty, how did you…

  • I'm joining RedMonk!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been working as a Social Media consultant in Ireland for around four years now and director of the Cork Internet eXchange data center for the last two years. However with my imminent move to Spain in July, I will lose 90% of the revenue from these streams. I can’t reproduce those streams in…

  • Psst! You wanna buy a data center?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Well, ok not an entire data center but my share of the CIX data center. As I have mentioned before, I am moving to Spain in July. When I move, I will no longer be able to make a meaningful contribution to the further development of CIX and in that scenario it would not be…

  • Blueface make personal attack, unfounded slurs on former customer

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    Tom Raftery
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    Blueface would appear to be losing it. Feargal Brady, Blueface CEO has, out of the blue, decided to start leaving deliberately inaccurate, bizarre and unsubstantiated accusations against me in comments on a post on this blog. Some of these allegations are more personal than factual. Challenged to back them up he has repeatedly demurred. Long…

  • Conferences can be fun!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I am back in Cork after the Eventoblog conference in Seville over the weekend. Now I am helping with last-minute preparations for the it@cork conference. It is on this coming Wednesday and it is going to be a real ‘wow!’ event. Apart from the incredible speakers that are lined up, the delegate list is like…

  • Are you an Irish startup seeking funding?

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    Tom Raftery
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    When I was in Berlin last week I met with Yoav Leitersdorf of YL Ventures. Yoav is looking to invest in interesting Irish startups. In his own words: YL Ventures (www.YLVentures.com) is a venture capital fund that is focused on ‘exiting’ to strategic acquirers at good bite-size valuaitons of $20m-$50m rather than the typical $500m+…