UPDATE
So the day has finally come and I’m just about to leave for CruiseCamp and pick up the Gift Bags for all 75 attendees, yes it was booked out. Thanks to Nicola and Leitrim County Enterprise Board for helping pack the Gift Bags and sponsoring the event. We will have hot food sponsored by The Country Cooking Company and spot prizes from Reverb Studios, Absolute Safety and Leitrim Design House.
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I am currently organising CruiseCamp in association with Leitrim County Enterprise Board – Ireland’s first CruiseCamp.
CruiseCamp will be an OpenCoffee/BizCamp type networking event on The Moonriver Pleasure Cruiser.
Date & Time: July 30th from 6pm to 9pm.
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UPDATE: Next Bizcamp Dublin – Saturday 19th September 2009
Yesterday evening, at the Sligo Women in Business Network (SWIBN) I gave a 1 hour Master Class on Social Media, Conversation Marketing and Professional Networking. The whole evening was very enjoyable although I must admit the ‘girl-power’ was a little over powering. I was delighted to be able to dispel any myths about these topics and attendees seemed very encouraged about the benefits for their business.
I would like to thank network facilitators Oonagh Monaghan and Amanda Scott for inviting me.
I was kindly asked by Oonagh Monahan to speak at tonight’s Sligo Women in Business Network meeting. I will be talking about Social Media, Conversation Marketing and Professional Networking (online and off).
First thing Enda Madden and I went to VC Breakfast Club with Ethan Kurzweil, Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners Focus: Consumer Internet Technologies and Digital Media. Presented by: Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs.
Then Enda, Aida, Anne Marie and I when to Trulia.
After that we attended the Irish Network San Francisco.
Yesterday I met with Seamus McAteer at 8am who is a really great guy originally from Cavan and he gave me some great leads and contacts.
Then I went to meet Zong and afterwards met with Simone Boswell from Enterprise Ireland.
Yesterday morning we met John McIntyre, David Smith and Jack Kissane from Enterprise Ireland (Silicon Valley Office) who gave us a good insight in to business in the valley, start-ups and supports availabe.
At 11 I attended an Early Stage VC & Angel Investor Event by FundingPost.
We did a pitching workshop and then had to pitch for real on front of 5 VC’s with over 100 start-ups watching.
From there I attended a networking event by SDForum – Business Intelligence SIG: - The Analytics behind LinkedIn by DJ Patil. The presentation was excellent.
Day one of our trade mission to Silicon Valley kicked off with a visit to Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship where we learned about the latest trends in technology, venture capitalism and how the university drives the commercialization of research. After a quick lunch at Berkeley’s faculty club, we were off to San Jose to the US Access Center where we learned about their non-profit programs to facilitate overseas business entry to the US. After that, we were off to Sun Microsystems, where we discussed tech industry trends. The day concluded with some of the group meeting with the Irish Pastoral Centre and others attending a tech networking event. All in all, a very productive and busy first day in sunny Silicon Valley. For more visit the official CEIM Blog.
A group of us attended a networking event yesterday evening hosted by SDForum. CEO Jeff Lawson gave a great presentation about his experience with a number of his start-ups, Twilio being his latest.
Twilio allows your web application to easily make and receive phone calls, using only basic web programming skills like HTTP, XML, and REST.
There is also a great TechCrunch about Twilio article here.
You can also follow them on Twitter
So we arrived safely in Silicon Valley yesterday and it’s very impressive from what I’ve seen so far. We are in for a packed week of meetings and networking events kicking off with one at 6pm today. While myself and John McNamara of SendMode work here in our hotel rooms, the rest of the group are attending meeeting with University of California, Berkeley, Sun Microsystems and then on to the US Market Access Centre.
The rest of my schedule (more to be added) is
Tuesday – Enterprise Ireland followed by Silicon Valley Angel & Venture Conference followed by a meeting at LinkedIn.
Wednesday - Skype, Ebay and Zong
Thursday – VC Breakfast Club with Ethan Kurzweil, Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners Focus: Consumer Internet Technologies and Digital Media. Presented by: Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs followed by Irish Network San Francisco Networking event.
Friday - Meeting with Meebo followed by Networking Event in San Francisco with Start Up! San Francisco
