Irish Entrepreneurial Social Network

Gerard McDonald

Hi all, my name is Gerard and im a long time lurker first time poster! I have developed an Entrepreneurial social network for the purpose of connecting Irish Entrepreneurs. Would some of you be interested in this? It involves the following:

Home page: Entrepreneurial Rss from various sites around the world, Newsfeed Wall, Various videos collected from Youtube specifically related to Entrepreneurial - ism, latest forum posts.

My Profile: Familiar to anyone who uses Facebook or other social networks.

Groups: Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Venture Capitalist, Business owner. Depending on if you guys fancy I will invite Angel Investors, Venture Capitalist s to join and interact with you, for free.

Blog: Rss Feeds along with any blogs you or I have written.

Forum: Alike to boards but specifically related to Entrepreneurs.

Videos: Videos uploaded, 40+ at the moment, collected from youtube.

Wiki: Explaining various topics and editable by all providing you join.

Ideas: Post an idea and see what others think, can be relating to anything related to your business.

Ask: Ask and get answers on any topic relating to your business.

Links: Various Links to useful sites.

Events: Add Events to a calendar so we can meet up etc.

Chat: Chat with anyone who s online and your friend.

Now the reason for this network in my view is to connect specifically Irish Entrepreneurs and allow them a place where then can get all the information they need. You could argue it is similar to Facebook however you have here a Local Social Network specifically relating to Entrepreneurs in Ireland along with a lot of material relating to that.

Added to this we can if you all want invite Angel Investors/Venture Capitalists to view the site and put you in touch with them for free.

So my question is, is this something you would be interested in? Instead of scouring the net you would have all the links/videos/people(providing you join ) you need.

It will be ready in a few days for some beta testers :-)

Thanks a lot,
Ger.

EPjnr

I myself would certainly be interested in this and will join.

My continued use would depend on how many people get involved, I wish you the best with this and hope its a success, but I feel you really really need to get this out there to everyone that falls into the targeted group. i.e. entrepreneurs etc

Gerard McDonald

Hi EPjnr, cheers for the reply yes it's all about traction and retaining users. Once the site is live I will be advertising via various forums and other social media to get people in and interested .

Is there any other widgets/modules/pages you all would be interested in seeing in the site? For instance I can put a video chat module in or a files module so we can share various documents, e.g if there are various forms you need to fill out to register a company with the CRO then I could put a list of them along with the links to them.

Thanks,
Ger.

Gerard McDonald

Hello all once again, the network is up and running at:

http://www.irishbusinessconnect.com

I would ask everybody to join and contribute so we can make this the best place to go for entrepreneurial information and meeting like minded people.

There will be a lot of updating over the coming week, please leave feedback regarding anything and everything and I hope it is useful to you.

Thanks a lot,

Gerard McDonald

Gerard McDonald

Hey all, twitter account set up at:

https://twitter.com/IrishBizConnect

Follow me please .

We have a whopping 11 Members and counting!

The recruitment drive begins now! Please get all the aspiring Entrepreneurs you know to join and we can create a great resource for us all.

Thanks,
Ger

euphx

Joined, best of luck with it.

Gerard McDonald

euphx wrote: »

Joined, best of luck with it.

Thanks , if you have any suggestions please let me know.

Just posted an article on why Entrepreneurs > Recessions and 14 Big Companies that Started in recessions.

Thanks,

Ger.

bladespin

Nice job and a great idea, wishing you the best of luck with it.

Gerard McDonald

bladespin wrote: »

Nice job and a great idea, wishing you the best of luck with it.

Thanks, emails sent to a lot of Enterprise companies etc around Ireland! They are a great resource and hopefully they join us.

Is there any Businesses/Enterprise Start up Funds etc you guys think should be incorporated into the website via links etc?

Also is there any particular area s you guys want me to focus on for articles? such as Accountancy, Law, Start up funding etc?

Let me know please,
Ger

Romka

I am very interested, a nice idea, good luck! I have joined

byrne0f56789

Just signed up. Like the aggriate RSS feed some good articles in it.

Best of luck.

Gerard McDonald

Well we re now up to a whopping 25 members and counting . there will be many more articles to come over the next few weeks.

Would anyone be interested if I got a professional Accountant on board to answer some of your questions that you leave on his wall?

Thanks,
Ger

Riamfada

Perhaps a meet up?