DUBLIN, IRELAND - I am in awe today, our service Decisions For Heroes has been featured on the front-page of O’Reilly Radar. Jesse Robbins (serves as co-chair of the Velocity Performance & Operations Conference and was responsible for Amazon.com’s website availability as “Master Of Disaster”) wrote some great words and is now ‘my hero’ ;-)
One of the most interesting DisasterTech projects I’ve been following is “Decisions for Heroes” led by developer and Irish Coast Guard volunteer Robin Blandford.
Decisions is like Basecamp for volunteer Search & Rescue teams. The focus is on providing “just enough” process to compliment the real-world workflow of a rescue team, without unnecessary complexity.
This is the winning approach for building systems that “serve those that serve others”, and is echoed by InSTEDD’s design philosophy and the Sahana disaster management system.
This is an innovative project with tremendous potential, and hopefully an early signal of coming changes in Emergency Management.
It feels unusual, it’s the first time emails have come in from around the world with congratulations for the coverage - before I even knew about it! Today, I spent the day on a mountain in Wicklow with the national Search & Rescue Dogs Association acting as an injured dog’s body. The discipline shown by the animals was awesome in this big game of hide & seek. I twittered photos live from my phone.
Read the full article on O’Reilly Radar.
-Robin.
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DUBLIN, IRELAND - Bernie linked to an archived post of mine this morning. I used to write a lot more, and I used to love it. As a combination of my brain not being used in work to its full, reading a tremendous amount, travelling a lot, and spending large amounts of time alone in Singapore having next to nil in shoulder rubbing… I would have all these ideas, thoughts and concepts.
Now my brain is overflowing with business, business, business - it’s constrained. It’s got a box now, and I’m thinking within it.
I promise to myself today, that once I’ve done the stuff that has to be done, I’ll step back from it all and start thinking again. For now, it’s back to the protocols and processes required to start something.
Doing this business stuff is fun. It’s not hard at all, it’s just a very long runway to get off the ground.
-Robin.
(Photo Credit: Walking over the River Liffey in Dublin yesterday en-route from Contrast to ByteSurgery, it was cold!)
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DUBLIN, IRELAND - OK, lots of missed news on here and I’m not sure where to begin. The biggest shift is a new office, the Hothouse have given us free office space in their incubation facility. Superb!
Along with it (as a commercialisation of research facility), for attending our 2 workshops a month and submitting business plans to the Dublin Institute of Technology, I receive a Postgrad Dip. in New Business Development. Brilliant!
Hothouse is a year-long programme that provides knowledge-intensive start-ups with the expertise, networks and tools they need to develop highly successful businesses capable of competing in global markets.
Helping launch over 300 companies during the past ten years, the PDC has a wealth of experience in delivering practical programmes for dynamic Irish businesses.
If you have an idea with commercial potential and the skills and experience to exploit that idea, the Hothouse programme offers the support you need to progress, including:
- a base in the entrepreneurial environment of a dedicated incubator
- workshops to improve your capabilities in key business areas
- access to a network of experts and entrepreneurs
- help in raising investment
Drop in for a coffee if you’re passing the Point Depot / The O2, we’re right next door…
ByteSurgery, Docklands Innovation Park, 128-130 East Wall Road, Dublin 3, Ireland.
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DUBLIN, IRELAND - It’s now a limited company with unlimited potential! ByteSurgery Ltd. is registered company number 463199. Company seal arrived… BYTEAUGERY LTD. ha! There’s the first call to be made on Monday for a replacement.
We used companysetup.ie who in all other respects were very fast and easy to work with. They did everything from solicitor signatures to preparation of all the company register, books, articles of association, share certificates, you name it.
-Robin.
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DUBLIN, IRELAND - We need a giant gong or bell to ring with every success of an Irish internet start-up.
Well ring the gong for Polldaddy! It’s not everyday you come in from the pub to see a two person Irish start-up on the top of Techmeme. Amazing job David (Lenny) & Eoin, who have just been acquired by Automattic - the Wordpress guys.
I should have guessed something was in the air…
- Very last minute, Lenny can’t make Seedcamp as a advisor, ’something had come up’.
- Lenny not in town for a almost guaranteed Irish Web Awards. hmmm.
Including Donnacha, 10% of Automattic is now Irish. The entire team of 30 has come together in Breckenridge, Colorado (excellent skiing in another months time, pity!).
Donnacha says:
We’ve even taken over a house here in Breckenridge, calling it the Irish House. The Irish Tricolour is flying outside an Irish pub downtown. They might lend it to us if we ask nicely.
From Matt (Wordpress Founder)…
There are probably a dozen companies addressing this space right now, but as we started to survey the space I was struck by how often I’d see this “PollDaddy” thing pop up.
Two guys in Ireland with a quirky company name were cleaning up with some of the largest and most respected websites using their service on a daily basis. They weren’t the biggest, but they had the high end of the market. It seemed to be the WordPress of the polling space.
-Robin.
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