Following our new marketing plan by Una (and I would suggest her to anyone planning marketing), I have been doing research on incubation spaces in Ireland. Apparently I knew about 6 of them beforehand, but I wanted to make complete list before planning how to approach them.
I do believe that doing research through Google is waste of time. It’s not that I can’t find things – there is just too much of them and takes time to filter out information you need. Also – problem with searching incubation spaces is that each university has one and most of them don’t advertise it.
That’s why I went to twitter and I’m really grateful to all who replied to me. @UKBI gave me list of UK & Ireland incubation spaces which wasn’t really big, but there were main Irish incubation spaces mentioned. My list grew to 18 incubation spaces at that point.
Researching more in Google about incubation spaces brought me to new page I haven’t seen before for start-up businesses. Sorry – design for that page is crap (I like business-startup.ie much better), but it has a lot of valuable information. And there were over 50 incubation spaces in Ireland. I’m gonna work forward from this list.
Update July 1st:
Another list provided by twitter friend @NiaLLLarkin from startup-ireland.org.
Good post Gita. Good to see that you’re working with Una. I remember the three of us talking at Future Focus
Regarding incubators and good connections talk to Every Bopp @EvertB
Not sure if you had the pleasure to meet him but he’s a good guy, always willing to help and could be of great help for Agile
Best
Fred
Hi, Fred,
I indeed talked with Ever Bopp on twitter when I was doing research. And he as well as few others wanted list of incubation spaces from me!
I feel a bit flattered about that.
Thanks for comment,
Gita
There is some wonderful info here I will be able to definitely take note