Startup Community: What Galway Can Do Next

Startup Community What Galway can do next

@JohnBreslin

@NUIGalway @Boards @StartupGalway @GalwayCity

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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

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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

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Participants Entrepreneurs Government Universities Investors

Mentors Service Providers Large Companies

Leaders and Feeders

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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: ?

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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)

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NUI Galway

•  Blackstone LaunchPad announced – Supporting undergraduate

entrepreneurship, over €1M

•  Entrepreneurship Society created •  Need an alumni mentor network

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Parallel universes

•  Whole parallel ecosystems around the medtech and creative industries

Me at bit.ly/galwaytechmap

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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

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Startup Gathering •  Get involved in Galway’s day! – Run an open event on October 9 – Add your startup company or resource

to the Startup Map of Ireland – Volunteer to help out on the day

•  http://startupireland.ie/startupgathering

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