An Introduction

I don’t know if I am a bit of a chancer but, I’ve decided to start this blog focused on exploring Web 2.0 startup ideas for Ireland. I’m going to approach this from 2 angles. One will be to look at fast growing Web 2.0 ventures abroad and assess whether they would fit well in an irish context. Two will be to look directly at the irish web/software scene and try to come up with original ideas for startups.

What I’m hoping for is that other people will join in the conversation, and put forward their own ideas. I know some people may be reticent about putting their startup ideas out there. All I can say, is that the fruits of doing so may outweigh the risks. See recent collaboration between Walter Higgings and Alan O’Rourke emanating from a Web 2.0 Ireland post. I’m not really well known in the blogging scene, so I don’t expect anybody to coming rushing in on this. Let’s just see how things evolve, I guess?
An inspiration for this blog, has been the intriguing Business Experiment venture founded by Rob May. The project is trying to set up a business by applying the collaborative, peer to peer development methodology more commonly associated with software development. The project has just under a thousand members from all corners of the world.

At the beginning, lots of Startup ideas were discussed openly on the business experiment forum and a winning idea was then chosen by use of poll voting. Alot of the ideas generated in the forum were really strong IMHO, and hopefully we can achieve something similar here.

If anybody wants to do guest posts on this Blog, please let me know.

BTW I am not going to catalogue existing local web 2.0 ventures as Web2.0 Ireland is already covering that very well.