Tag: startups

  • Unleashing Startups: Our Secret Weapon Against Climate Change

    Unleashing Startups: Our Secret Weapon Against Climate Change

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    Climate change is arguably the most pressing issue of our time. It calls for immediate, transformative action that transcends borders, industries, and disciplines. Within this vast and urgent landscape, there is a crucial role for entrepreneurship. Startups and innovative entrepreneurs can bring fresh perspectives and agile approaches that contribute significantly to climate change solutions. In…

  • Dear Internet of Things startups,…

    Dear Internet of Things startups,…

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    Dear Internet of Things startups, As you may already know, SAP is one of the world’s largest software companies. We produce the software that most companies use to produce their goods. But what you may not know is that we don’t stop there. On the contrary, SAP also has an in-memory Internet of Things cloud platform…

  • Startup 2.0 on again this year in Barcelona

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    Tom Raftery
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    This year’s Startup 2.0, a European competition for Web 2.0 startups, was launched the other day. Submissions are accepted for blogs, wikis, social networks or any other website which makes a high use of Web 2.0 components, such as tags, RSS, collaboration or Ajax. Companies and people from any European country willing to present their…

  • Are you an Irish startup seeking funding?

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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+…

  • Cork-based telecoms firm raises €5m

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    Tom Raftery
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    Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom have released details of €5m worth of investment they have received. Cubic Telecom is the parent company of the Roam4free and Yak4ever brands. From the release Cubic has raised a EUR3.5M investment from private backers in order to develop a suite of innovative global mobile and home phone products under the…

  • Congrats Pat

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    Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom company has been selected to be one of the finalists in TechCrunch 20 for their Roam4free product. What is TechCrunch 20? From the site: Twenty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce and demo their products over a two day period at TechCrunch20. And they don’t pay…

  • On the Startup 2.0 jury!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I am honoured to have been selected to be on the jury of the Startup 2.0 . The jury contains people like Martin Varsavsky of Fon, Loic Le Meur (formerly of Six Apart) and Daniel Waterhouse of 3i. Startup 2.0 is a competition to “promote and reward European startups”. The entries have been whittled down…

  • Do startups use Open Source?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I was very much of the impression that startups these days, because they want to keep spending to a minimum, would be more likely to use Open Source tools to develop their applications. The likes of MySQL instead of Microsoft SQL Server, for instance. This view was re-inforced by an interview I did with Salim…