We had a very interesting event in DERI last week - the DERI Entrepreneurial Forum #2 - where six CEOs from the west of Ireland gave us their views on entrepreurship. There was some frank sharing of professional and personal experiences on both starting and running a company in Ireland.

The speakers were Jan Blanchard, CEO of Tourist Republic; John Brosnan, CEO of Netfort Technologies; Greg Cawley, CEO of Traventec; Julian Ellison, CEO of Tablane; Alan Duggan, CEO of Nephin Games; and Karl Flannery, CEO of Storm.

I think it was very useful for buddying entrepreneurs in DERI to engage these CEOs and to exchange ideas about their “dos and do nots”. (We even got some book recommendations from Jan!)

(Aside: God, I hate it when Google do their link tracking stuff for searches. I just want to be able to right click and copy a link, not have to copy some text on a page or click through, CTRL+L and CTRL+C. Stop it Google, you have enough tracking information already!)