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Startup Community What Galway can do next
@JohnBreslin
@NUIGalway @Boards @StartupGalway @GalwayCity
Guillom at commons.wikimedia
We learned from...
• “Startup Communities” by Brad Feld • All about the Boulder, CO ecosystem – Slightly larger than Galway, 100k people – One of most entrepreneurial cities in US
alecperkins at flickr
The Boulder Thesis 1. Entrepreneurs must lead the startup
community 2. The leaders must have a long-term
commitment 3. The startup community must be
inclusive of anyone who wants to participate in it
4. The startup community must have continual activities that engage the entire entrepreneurial stack
Molas at commons.wikimedia
Participants Entrepreneurs Government Universities Investors
Mentors Service Providers Large Companies
Leaders and Feeders
HM Marsh at British Library's Picturing Canada
Activities and events • Young Entrepreneurs
Organization: JCI • Office Hours:
officehours.ie • Boulder Denver New
Tech Meetup: Startup Galway Tech Meetup
• Boulder StartupDigest: Galway StartupDigest
• Startup Weekend: Next one being planned for October 2015
• Boulder Open Coffee Club: Galway Open Coffee (needs reboot)
• Ignite Boulder: Ignite Galway (needs reboot)
• Boulder Beta: Demo Bar (needs reboot)
• CU New Venture Challenge: ?
• Boulder Startup Week: ?
• Entrepreneurs Foundation of CO: ?
Geraldshields11 at commons.wikimedia
Startup Galway • Startup Galway Tech
Meetups – Pat Phelan, Dermot
Berkery, Declan Ganley, Iseult Ward, Paul Kenny, Christopher Byrne, Sean O’Sullivan
• Startup Galway Tech Workshops
• Startup Galway Pitching Meetups
• Galway Startup Weekend 2014 – 38 students and 32
non-students registered to take part
– 30 out of 70 people pitched ideas
– 12 teams – Top two teams led by
women – All teams had a
student member
New spaces in Galway
• SuperPixel Labs coworking space • Bank of Ireland Workbench
coworking space • PorterShed coworking space
(commencing works this month) • Accelerator (later this year)
flynn_nrg at flickr
NUI Galway
• Blackstone LaunchPad announced – Supporting undergraduate
entrepreneurship, over €1M
• Entrepreneurship Society created • Need an alumni mentor network
toms at flickr
Parallel universes
• Whole parallel ecosystems around the medtech and creative industries
Me at bit.ly/galwaytechmap
Let’s build it! • Our Startup Galway website tagline
is “building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Galway”
• Building a website is not enough – Build it and they won’t necessarily come
• We need life in the ecosystem, through commitment, participation, and continual activities
Mayqel at commons.wikimedia