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Kilkenny Business Awards 2006

Quiet weekend on the blogging front but just back in the door from the Kilkenny Business awards. Not used to blogging about the business here but needless to say a good night was had. No major awards but nice representation, a great meal, good conversation and all the rest. Needless to say, being nominated for…

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eBusiness Seminar in Kilkenny

The IIA and Kilkenny County Enterprise Board will host a ½ day seminar on maximizing the return on your website in the wonderful Lyrath Estate Hotel, Kilkenny. Having a website is only the first step in making a return on your online investment. Websites have to be content drive, user friendly and attract interested visitors…

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Daft.ie worth €15 million?

If you happened to read the Irish Independant on Saturday (don’t ask me how I was reading the Irish Independant on Saturday, but I was!) and turned to page 3, there was a very nice writeup on Daft.ie. Set up by Brian and Eamonn Fallon as a spin of a project of Brian’s going through…

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How an IT startup raises money

So Meebo is out and about now as an AJAX powered IM client and the official meebo blog has some great honest posts about how the set upon raising money for the startup, a point of interest to some people around here! milk money, part one milk money, part two milk money, part three

Blogs : 2 for a euro…

If you’ve got about 70k to spare you might be interested to know that the Blog Herald (which I read) is up for sale. The blog itself makes about 2,000 US$ a month which isn’t bad. The price is being touted as a little steep, but then how do you set a price on a…

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Nikon out of the film game

I’m a Nikon user, have been for years, both film and digital. In the last 18 months however its been strictly digital, man how I love my D70. Nikon has just broken the news that it is to concentrate its efforts on the digital market. “Nikon will discontinue production of all lenses for large format…

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Back to Business

January 4th… been back at work since yesterday in a flurry of activity around the office, time to get the blog back in shape. I’ve been losing out to one of my other blogs which I might reveal over here and here. Most people who know me know that I’m a huge fan of the…

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When Business Becomes A Pleasure

When business becomes a pleasure. People say you should never mix both – keep them apart at all times. Unless of course you’re in a job that you love doing things that you love. Needless to say the business world has its pressures – demands from clients, demands from yourself, constantly trying to raise the…

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