Full article linked here.

Extracts:

PUTTING ANY talk of recession to one side, about 300 budding entrepreneurs gathered at BizCamp in Dublin last Saturday to soak up free advice that ranged from no-nonsense business planning to more esoteric ideas on what it takes to succeed.

From number-crunching to brain-training, Adrian Avendano hosted a session on using the two sides of your brain, but it was not always motivational. “If you’re going to do a start-up, you’re going to fail,” he said. “Fact. The thing is to get over it.”

Next door, it was less about sides of the brain and more about using your brain at all. “We seldom see a clear description of a product,” said Enterprise Ireland’s David Lucy, in an instructive talk on the common pitfalls in business plans.

Not just about presentations, BizCamp is a day when delegates have the opportunity to network among themselves. It is hard to imagine anywhere outside of singles club where introductions and personal details are exchanged with such speed and enthusiasm.

The mood was defiantly upbeat. It was the second event the BizCamp organisers have run this year and with the help of its sponsors, two more are planned for 2010, something that will be enthusiastically welcomed judging by the comments of one delegate.

“This is the kind of event the country needs,” he said. “It helps us to feel good about ourselves again.”

Thanks Ian! Keith

If you spoke at or wrote about the event please send a link to your presentation or link to info@bizcamp.ie or leave a comment.

The Presentations

Martin Kelly IBM - SmartCamp - Let’s build a Smarter Planet (PPT, 6.07MB)
Karl Deeter & Andrew Townley - being Good isn’t Good Enough (1mb PDF)
Gerry Brandon - Entrepreneurs are always looking for money. Get over it! (pptx 345kb)
Greg fry - Goal setting in your Business and How to stay motivated in challenging times.”
CareersCoach - Goal setting in your business and how to stay motivated in challenging times
China Green - China Skills for irish Business
Fidelma Greene Associates - Being the light at the end of the tunnel, 3 tips on how to lead in these fearful and uncertain times. (1mb WORD)
Ronan Geraghty - Microsoft Bizspark Presentation (1mb PDF)
Una Coleman - Internationalization (3mb PDF)
Pearse Coyle - Corporate Spin Outs (Twitter notes).

PDF LINK

WhatClinic.com Web revenue models presentation notes.

Alan ORourke Toddle.com - From email to sales. Conversion in email marketing.

Alan O'Rourke, Toddle.com - The email sales funnel. €10 into €1000

Video: : http://www.meetforeal.com/displayvideo.do?videoId=20

http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/09/bizcamp-dublin-slides/

Notes and takeaways

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/13901/business/its-not-the-eighties-all-over-again
http://www.channelship.ie/blog/post-631-learning-about-business-at-bizcamp-dublin.php
http://www.verticalbones.com/2009/09/notes-and-quotes-from-bizcamp-dublin/
http://www.keithshirley.ie/blog/2009/09/20/bizcamp-dublin/
http://www.smemon.com/back-from-bizcamp/
http://www.smemon.com/bizcamp-in-more-depth/
http://www.madeinhollywood.ie/blog/keeping-your-eye-on-the-ball/
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/businesses-meet-to-discuss-recession-survival-at-bizcamp-1891509.html
http://wwwcareerscoacheu.blog.com/2009/09/21/bizcamp-sept-2009-%E2%80%9Cgoal-setting-in-your-business-and-how-to-stay-motivated-in-challenging-times%E2%80%9D/
http://www.murrion.ie/murmurs/2009/09/bizcamp/
http://os3.ie/blog/index.php?id=4012432798345843885

Photos

http://pix.ie/markcahill/album/355261
http://gallery.me.com/keithbohanna#100047

Video

http://qik.com/video/2940867

Other

Tweets about the event

Keith Bohanna

Co-founder of www.dbtwang.com - a new web-based service for guitar players, collectors and enthusiasts. Keith is an experienced internet consultant/trainer and has been working and enjoying this area since 2000 with clients that include Enterprise Ireland (e-business unit), National City and County Enterprise Boards, Heritage Council, Crafts Council of Ireland and Failte Ireland (South East).
Keith is also a director of the Irish Internet Association and Chair of the newly established working group on Physical Internet Infrastructure.

• keithbohanna AT gmail . com
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithbohanna
• @dbtwang
• http://bohanna.typepad.com/pureplay/

Emily Tully

Emily Tully has worked within the media sphere for the last 7 years. A former news journalist, she spent 4 years at the breakfast news desk in national radio station Today FM. Prior to that she worked with Newstalk and East Coast Radio. Emily Tully PR & Online Communications specialises providing cost effective PR solutions for start-ups and entrepreneurs utilising both online and offline media.

• www.emilytully.com
• www.linkedin.com/in/emilytully
• @emilytully
• Skype: emilytully

David Scanlon

David Scanlon is an eBusiness Executive with Enterprise Ireland, involved in promoting the importance and value of eBusiness to a broad business environment, as well as playing a role in supporting Irish SMEs to understand and implement good eBusiness practice.

• david.scanlon@enterprise-ireland.com
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/davescanlon
• http://twitter.com/dscanlon
• http://www.facebook.com/i.prefer.twitter

Alan O’Rourke

Bafta nominated designer of almost 10 years experience, Alan O’Rourke founded and runs one of Irelands leading Design Agencies Spoiltchild with clients that include Jet Blue, Virgin America, Eircom, RTE and National Galleries of Scotland.
Specialising in web design and email marketing Alan runs two very successful online web services www.finetuna.com and Toddle.com.

• alan@toddle.com
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/spoiltchild
• @alanorourke
• http://www.facebook.com/ORourke.Alan

Paul Browne

Having run a technical consultancy for several years, and previously having worked for several mulitnationals in the US, UK , France and Belgium , Paul now works in Enterprise Ireland’s Software division. His role is to help Irish companies grow exports and jobs, dealing with marketing, financial and technical issues along the way. You can talk to him about anything related to business or technology, dealing with government agencies or any aspect of starting / growing your business.

• http://www.firstpartners.net/blog
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbrowne

Keith Shirley

IT consultant, mentor and trainer, Keith Shirley’s career spans an international arena. He stepped down as a corporate director of a German telecoms company in 2006 to return to Ireland fulltime. His IT services company, Shercom Ltd, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Keith is a member of the IIA’s Social Media Working group and has a particular interest in helping SME’s get the most from IT.

• www.shercom.com
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithshirley
• @keithshirley
• http://www.keithshirley.ie

Jason Roe

Jason Roe is a freelance consultant who specialises in web development and search engine optimisation. I can help you and your company with: + Website design & Web development + Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) & Online Marketing + Wordpress & Wordpress MU themes, plugin development.

• jason@jason-roe.com
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonaroe
• @jasonroe
• http://jason-roe.com/blog/

Theme: Taking the Rough with the Smooth - entrepreneurs talking about the challenging times they have been through, the impact on them personally as well as the business and to end - how they got through it to make a success of things.

Format: Off the cuff for 8-10 minutes each, no powerpoint - just passion . Followed by Q&A

Panelists & Moderator (biogs at end):

• Kevin Traynor, Sonic Academy
• Colm Lyon, Realex Payments
• Jerry Kennelly, Founder & former CEO of Stockbyte, Endeavor
• Asheesh Dewan, Jaipur
• Martin Kelleher, Mason, Hayes+Curran: Moderator

I am looking forward to it - I have seen Kevin and Colm talk before and they do bring a love of what they do to the table. Jerry and Asheesh will be new to me.

keith

Biogs:

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Kevin Traynor is the founder of Sonic Academy which he set up in Belfast in 2004 as a training facility for DJs and music technology enthusiasts, which has since become the premier facility of its kind in Ireland. A former drummer with one of Ireland’s most successful bands The Divine Comedy, it wasn’t long before he dumped the drums in favour of decks and began DJing and promoting club nights between London and Belfast. Since then he has notched up appearances in Holland, France, Italy and Australia and played alongside some of the worlds’ best DJs from James Zabiela to Adam Freeland and DJ Dexter to Tiefschwarz.
Kevin was awarded the Prince’s Trust Young Achiever of the Year Award in 2005 for his work in setting up Sonic Academy. He also sits on the board of Disability Action Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Employers Group of Creative & Cultural Skills (the Sector Skills Council for the Creative and Cultural Industries).
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Colm Lyon is Founder and Managing Director of Realex Payments. He is highly regarded as one of the foremost innovation leaders in the online payment processing business. His career has spanned almost twenty five years in payment related businesses, starting with fourteen years in the financial service sector.
He founded Realex Payments in 2000 and since then the business has grown rapidly to a position of inspired leadership in the online payment processing business. The payment exchange concept, which he conceived has provento be the market winning approach in that it offers a strategic solution which addresses the core issues. Today Realex Payments process in excess of €6bn for 3,000 businesses.

Colm is a regular industry speaker. In 2005 he was acclaimed and rewarded for his leadership when he was a finalist of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. As an industry figure he was Director and Chairman of the Irish Internet Association for over four years - during which time the association significantly enhanced its position. He was invited (2008) by Enterprise Ireland to participate in the Steering Group to devise the strategy for the Irish Software Sector. He is a graduate of University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Management Science Degree.
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Jerry Kennelly (Founder & former CEO of Stockbyte and Stockdisc *- sold to Getty Images for over €110 Million). Jerry has been honoured by the Deloitte Fast 50 Awards and was named the Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005. Jerry has been instrumental in the launch and roll out of the very successful Young Entrepreneur Programme which is aimed at fostering an entrepreneurship culture among second and third level students.
He has been involved in the recent launch of Endeavour which is located at Shannon Development’s Kerry Technology Park in association with Institute of Technology. Endeavour is a national campaign to search find, grow and launch Ireland’s next generation of global entrepreneurs - featuring one-to-one by Ireland’s most successful entrepreneurs.
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Asheesh Dewan is the founder of Jaipur Indian restaurants, which employ over 100 people.  With six restaurants in his group in Ireland, the most recent one being Ananda in Dundrum shopping centre, Asheesh is also the proprietor of Benares in London, one of the first Indian restaurants in the UK to be awarded a Michelin star.   In March 2009, Asheesh was awarded the Ulster Bank Business Achievers Award and last year was named Permanent TSB Ethnic Entrepreneur of the Year 2008.  He is also a co-founder of Segala, an IT company which specialises in web accessibility and mobile web standards compliance certification.

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Martin Kelleher is a partner in the corporate group and head of life sciences. He previously worked for eight years with Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE:ELN), a global biotechnology company.

From 1996 to 2001, Martin worked as an in-house counsel for Elan in Ireland and advised on the commercial aspects of Elan’s global business. In 2002, Martin transferred to New York and played an important role in Elan’s successful restructuring. During this period, Martin passed the New York Bar exam. He returned to Ireland in late 2003.

Martin has significant international transactional experience. He also has particular experience in advising early stage companies on funding corporate matters. Martin has an MBA from Cranfield University, School of Management and was a recipient of the J.P. O’Reilly Scholarship from the Law Society of Ireland.

Here is the schedule - it is draft and subject to inevitable change coming up to the day. But it is close to what will actually happen. Coloured in by Alan in Spoiltchild.

bizcamp-schedule-screen-ready (2.1Mb pdf download - there may have been printing issues with previous format)

For any speakers dropping by here. 3 things to ask of you:

1. No sales pitches. Please. This is a day for sharing experiences and skill sets. Pitch for business elsewhere.

2. If you are using an Apple laptop please bring an adaptor for same.

3. Try and keep to the timetable, and suss out your room beforehand - there are 5 so it may get confusing!

thanks, keith

This is a great opportunity to talk to leading practitioners of business law who can give you some practical initial legal advices relating to your business and how to bring it forward. These advices could relate to, for example,  how to structure your business, how to protect your intellectual property, the taking in of external investment, dealing with employee/consultants, company compliance - they can give you a steer.  Just ask them!

With nearly 500 attendees expected demand could be high! To make your appointment ping an email to smcdonald AT mhc.ie.   When sending back your mail please include a short summary of your query (such as external investment query, for example) so we can make sure the appropriate expert is available.  Sonja will then send you back your time slot.  Legal Clinics start at 11.30am.

keith

Sponsors

First off Microsoft Bizspark. Clare Dillon who runs this program has been so supportive of the bizcamp so a really big heart out to her

Bank Of Ireland were there for the last one as well - good to have you guys on board.

Mason, Hayes and Curran are solicitors in Dublin who do a hell of a lot of work with start-ups and (speaking from personal experience) have a strong commercial skill-set to bring to the legal side of any business.

Three.ie are also new to us with this event so welcome.

Supporters

Our supporters are Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Internet Association. Bizcamp happens because a group of volunteers put the time in to organise it. Both the EI and the IIA have been helping out with back office stuff which makes the organisation a lot easier for us.

keith

Register here for the next Dublin Bizcamp on September 19th ‘09.

Venue: Guinness Storehouse, Dublin (their contact us and directions page)

Time: Probably 10am to 5pm

The venue is bigger so we anticipate up to 400 entrepreneurs gathered for a great, free day of learning and networking with other businesses. There will be 4 streams of speakers and an afternoon panel discussion.

more to come….

keith

Please note that you’ll need a Java capable phone and Web access to install the Mobile Assistant. You’ll also be able to grab the application via Bluetooth at the event itself.