This talk was recorded on November 4th 2020.

In this episode I talk with Dermot Casey about the growth of digital start-ups in Ireland and supporting that crucial period of early stage business development.

At the time of recording Dermot had been working for the previous five years as a venture leader at the NDRC, Ireland’s National Digital Research Centre’s accelerator programme for digital start-ups. He has since co-established Resolve Partners, a venture consulting partnership, and then moved on to become the CEO for IRDG, a non-profit, business-led Innovation Network for member companies and colleges.

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OPENING 

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Q: What does a venture leader’s working day look like?

Q: How does the NDRC support entrepreneurs and start-ups?

Q: Do start-ups use dev jams and design sprints to punctuate the business development cycle or  do they end up doing rapid prototyping and development all the time?

Q: Does Ireland offer any unique advantages for start-ups? Is this a good time to start a digital savvy  business?

Q: How do we deal with failure? How do we resolve that conflict between the desire for success and the almost inevitability of failure?

Mentions:

Des Traynor from Intercom reflecting on the transitions you make when scaling from being a start-up to being a company.

https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/lessons-learned-from-scaling-a-team/

Eamon Leonard, one of Ireland's most experienced tech founders:

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/eamon-leonard-named-irelands-net-visionary-2012

IxDA Dublin

http://ixda.ie

Samuel Beckett quote 

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Web Summit: Founded in 2009, by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly and Daire Hickey, Web Summit was originally held in Dublin, Ireland, until 2016, when it moved to Lisbon.

https://websummit.com

The Gini index for Ireland

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=IE

Gini index (World Bank estimate – smaller may be read as less inequality. The Gini index is a measure of statistical dispersion of income inequality or wealth inequality within a nation or any other group of people. The measure was developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini)

Thirty-Two Words for Field

http://manchan.com/32-words-for-field

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: “It was just cold”

Artist: Andrew Codeman

Source: https://bit.ly/2Msarcj​

License: “CC BY 4.0”

Cover Art 

Title: Adapted from “After weeks of frozen numbness, Roger and Bon sensed the tentative beginnings of a creative thaw.”

Artist: “Caroline (The hills are alive*)” *https://www.flickr.com/photos/hills_alive/

Source: “https://flic.kr/p/8AwtWe”

[Composite image, multiple sources. See credits]

License: “CC BY 4.0”

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