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A Morning Seminar on Cloud Metrics, Tuesday 5 March

A Morning Seminar: Cloud Metrics – The Key KPIs for Scalable and Profitable Success

Time: 8.30 am to 13.30 pm, Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Venue: Gibson Hotel, Point Village, Dublin 1

The continued forecast growth of the IT global market presents a very significant opportunity for the Irish Software Industry. The advent and take-up of Cloud Computing in particular, changes the landscape for software delivery in the future and opens up global potential for Irish companies. The challenge will be how companies respond to the market drivers, identify and quantify opportunities and develop technologies and business models to exploit them to the full.

The focus of this seminar is on how Cloud based software companies need to embed the best practise financial metrics on both a day-to-day and Board level to ensure long term growth and scale.

Cash strapped software companies will only have one real chance to get it right when they go to market with their Cloud products. Having a detailed understanding of these metrics, starting with Cost of Customer Acquisition, is fundamental if there is to be any chance of success.

Enterprise Ireland invites you to participate in a seminar in Dublin on Tuesday the 5th March 2013 from 8.30 am to 12.30 pm to understand more about the financial metrics for the Cloud business model.

The Speakers for the event include:

Jeffrey Kaplan, MD of THINKStrategies, Think Strategies, LinkedIN Profile

Jeffrey Kaplan is the Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, a strategic consulting firm that helps IT enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies.

Jeffrey the founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace, the largest vendor-independent directory of Cloud solutions; and the host of the Cloud Innovators Summits which bring together business executives to examine Cloud analytics and channel opportunities and challenges.

Evanegelos Simoudis, Senior Managing Director, Trident Capital, Trident Capital, LinkedIN Profile

Evangelos Simoudis is a Sr. Managing Director of Trident which has been investing in SaaS companies since 1999. Evangelos joined Trident Capital in 2005. Evangelos focuses on investments in Internet and software businesses.

Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. His experience as a technology executive includes serving as President and CEO of Customer Analytics, a Trident-backed, eCRM company acquired by Xchange, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAP), and as Vice President of Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM

Brian Caulfield, Partner, DFJ Esprit, DFJ Esprit, LinkedIN Profile

Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a Partner at DFJ Esprit and based in Dublin, Ireland.

Prior to joining DFJ Esprit, Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital where he sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA, ChangingWorlds (sold to Amdocs – NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (sold to Compuware – NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (acquired by CSR – LSE:CSR.L).

Fergus Gloster, Managing Director Marketo International, EMEA, Marketo, LinkedIn Profile

Fergus is a seasoned IT executive and has worked in development, marketing and sales for many of the world’s leading high tech firms. As managing director of Marketo International, Fergus is responsible for all revenue generation activities for Marketo outside of the Americas, including sales, marketing, customer success, and renewals.

Prior to joining Marketo, he was a founding director of salesforce.com’s European business in 2000 and spent nine years building the corporate sales model, which is fundamental to the operation of any successful SaaS company. Before salesforce.com, Fergus was technology director in Oracle, Ireland and also held senior positions in Andersen Consulting and Wang.

Registration

Space is limited so don’t delay!
To register please click on this link :

https://www.eventsforce.net/enterpriseireland/680/register

You will be asked for the following mandatory details during registration: Delegate contact details & Credit card details for payment

A non refundable fee of €75 is due by credit card upon registration in order to secure your place. An invoice will be issued after the event.

We certainly hope you can join us on Tuesday the 5th!

Andrew Peet

Enterprise Software Solutions, EnterpriseIreland

Andrew.peet@enterprise-ireland.com

London Web Summit

Following on from the success of the Dublin Web Summit in 2011, the 19th of March will see two of the best know web events for start ups join forces for the first time. GeeknRolla and the Dublin Web Summit, are merging to create the London Web Summit.

TechCrunch Europe Editor Mike Butcher will co-curate the Summit with Paddy Cosgrave of the Dublin Web Summit. With a focus at the summit on Trends in Local, Social and Mobile, Growth and Investment Strategies for Start Ups and Insights on Cloud and Data, speakers at the Summit include an array of exciting speakers including Matthew Prince Founder, CloudFlare, Jason Goldberg, Founder of Fab.com, Mark Read, CEO of WPP Digital, Jessica Powell, CMO of Badoo and many more.

“We’re really delighted to be teaming up with the Dublin Web Summit lads. They’ve managed to do it again and put together a fantastic lineup of incredible speakers. Hopefully we’ll have a bit of that Irish magic in London for the London Web Summit”

-TechCrunch Europe Editor Mike Butcher

There is a lot of buzz around the event with over 350 people registering to attend within the first 3 days of registration. Paddy Cosgrave encourages Irish startups to get get over to the event:

“We’re offering Irish startups an opportunity to exhibit at the London Web Summit and we’ve seen quite a number of investors sign up, people from Accel, Atomico, Balderton, Index, Graylock and many more, so its a great opportunity to meet some of the top investors in London. For any startups under two years old we’re also running a startup competition to find the top five startups who’ll present in front of an audience of 800 at the end of the day.”

For more information about the event and the opportunity to showcase your company as one of Europe’s hottest start ups, see the startup competition entry.

Enterprise Ireland will be supporting the event and the London Web Summit have agreed a rate of £995 + VAT to any Irish companies who wish to exhibit at the event.

To avail of this special exhibition rate, please contact the London Web Summit directly on bronagh@websummit.net

Trade fair support from Enterprise Ireland may be available to Enterprise Ireland client companies only (subject to eligibility) up to the value of 50%. For more information, Enterprise Ireland clients need to discuss their eligibility with their Development Advisor directly.

For general information, please contact Claire Bodys on Claire.bodys@enterprise-ireland.com

Calling Irish Entrepreneurs to apply to the Citrix Startup Accelerator

The Citrix Startup Accelerator Global Challenge 2011 – searching for the best entrepreneurs internationally where Citrix will invest up to $400k as well as time and resources.

Citrix are looking for:

Innovative business solutions using cloud computing
An idea around a solution that also uses mobile platforms (we’re particularly interested in the combination of cloud + mobile)
A superior user experience based on insights into human behavior
Emphasis on solving business problems and/or simplifying our digital lives (work + play)
A compelling business plan and scalable business model

While the Citrix Startup Accelerator center is located in Silicon Valley they have a global innovation footprint. For the Global Challenge 2011 Citrix are reaching out to entrepreneurs in Europe and other regions.

More information can be found at citrixstartupaccelerator.com

Citrix, Multinational, Potential Exporters

DCU Ryan Academy Propeller Accelerator Joins TechStars Network

This is a guest post from Gordon McConnell, Deputy CEO and Director of the Propeller Accelerator’ at DCU.

In what is seen to be one of the most important developments in Dublin’s status as a major game player in the area of web and technology start-ups, the DCU Ryan Academy Propeller Accelerator (a mentor-led seed accelerator that funds very early stage tech companies in areas such as software, hardware, cleantech and internet) has joined TechStars Network (a recently launched White House-sponsored alliance of independently owned and operated start-up accelerator programs from dozens of cities across the US and around the world).

As a member of TechStars Network, the Propeller Accelerator will have access to an abundant range of strategic resources, including professional development and ongoing support that will effectively lead and mentor innovative entrepreneurs in Ireland. The Ryan Academy Propeller Accelerator was only one of three accelerators in Europe, and one of five in the world, chosen to be charter members of TechStars. Based upon the mentorship-driven model pioneered by TechStars, all these programmes provide seed funding and mentorship to innovative entrepreneurs.

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DCU, Potential Exporters, Ryan Academy, TechStarts

Great VC Blog for Software/Web Services companies

Musings of VC in NYC is a very good source of information and tips for entrepreneurs, investors, developers etc. in the software industry especially web services especially social, gaming and mobile. It can cover stuff from “What does a CEO do anyway” to “Retooling Stale Businesses” using web services technology to the ideal First term sheet and liquidation preferences. Themes or companies that pop up cover open source, cloud based platforms, mobile gaming etc. The VC has an interesting portfolio of companies too.

In terms of the Irish software industry what strikes me is the incredible power that a dedicated and skilled developer team has to create a compelling web service and this a compelling business with international scope. This is due to the power, accessibility and low costof open source, Internet and languages like Ruby on Rails etc. etc. This is the modern software industry and it is open to people with thise skills who can marry it to a business vision – i.e. do something that people are actually willing to pay for or solves a real problem. We defintely need more programmers with the right skills in PHP or Ruby on Rails etc. It is simply much cheaper to create a software business than it was before, if you do it right of course

Potential Exporters, VC

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