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A specially chartered train left Cork’s Kent Station yesterday afternoon to bring investors, entrepreneurs and start-ups to the Dublin Web Summit. Think Visual made the journey too in order to create this snapshot for our Silicon Republic readers. Cork tech companies VoxPro, PCH International and Trustev covered the cost of the chartered train for local Cork start-ups as well as visitors from overseas. Passengers had the opportunity to take part in a variety of networking activities on three specially designed carriages. Local start-ups were given space on the Start-up carriage to receive 20-minute speed mentoring sessions from top accelerator TechStars. A Speakers carriage featured presentations from entrepreneurs and business thinkers, while a Hardware carriage featured gadgets for passengers to try out.
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WikiBrains co-founder on search that connects the dots The competition to be crowned the Dublin Web Summit’s best start-up for 2013 is on. We talked to the cofounder of one contender, WikiBrains, coming all the way from Israel to introduce us to a new kind of search.
WikiBrains has been spurred on by ed-tech accelerator MindCET, which was established almost two years ago as an independent spin-out of Israel’s Center for Educational Technology (CET). The ed-tech scene has attracted a lot of interest from the tech community of late, while Tel Aviv has
become known as a hub of promising start-up activity – no surprise then that WikiBrains has been selected to pitch at this year’s Summit. Co-founder León Markovitz explains how the platform allows you to search for connections between queries. To demonstrate their work in action, they created interactive ‘maps’ plotting the connections between start-ups, judges, speakers and countries represented here at the Summit today.
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Robert Scoble and Shel Israel – ‘A change is going to come’ In recent days Scoble and Israel’s latest collaboration Age of Context highlights how we’ve gone beyond social media to a time where sensors, pinpoint-accurate marketing driven by big data and wearable devices will make the future envisioned in Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report’ seem wide of the mark and extremely naïve.
Instead they envision a world where a maker’s revolution will once again put skilled creatives like the village blacksmith at the heart of local economies, the new urbanists will flock back to the cities from the suburbs to be closer to better technologies and services in more
gentrified downtown areas and all around us tiny, powerful radios and sensors will gather data ostensibly to make our lives better. “Seven years ago we wrote a book that said this social media thing is going to be really big and businesses should stop calling it a fad because it’s going to change business – now it’s pretty good and Robert and I became well known because of our evangelism of that,” Israel explained. “Just seven years later social media is just a commodity, there is no business looking forward that doesn’t have social media as part of its strategy, it’s become a mature platform.
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Your biggest fans are actually co-creators,’ says SoundCloud founder Eric Wahlforss Following his appearance on stage at the Dublin Web Summit, we caught up with SoundCloud founder and CTO Eric Wahlforss, who told us how his platform can benefit musicians willing to embrace the technology.
Just seeing how Wahlforss delighted in being on stage with Matt Black, one half of UK EDM duo Coldcut and co-founder of independent record label Ninja Tune, demonstrates his passion for music.
SoundCloud is the world’s largest audio-sharing platform, reaching more than 250m users per month and seeing about 12 hours of audio uploaded every minute. While these audio files include spoken word, comedy, and even snippets from the White House, music is by far the dominant force on the network. However, Wahlforss is quick to point out that SoundCloud is not a broadcast medium. Rather, it is a platform that enables deep interactivity between creators
and listeners. “Your biggest fans are actually co-creators,” he says, explaining how users post and re-share content, but can also add their own remixes and collaborations. A variety of artists have made great use of SoundCloud – from the progressive house of Deadmau5 to the rock stylings Of Montreal to rapper Big Sean – and Wahlforss says it’s those that embrace the platform and all it offers that benefit the most.
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Trustev raises US$3m in one of Europe’s largest seed funding rounds Cork-headquartered start-up Trustev revealed at the Dublin Web Summit it has just closed a US$3m seed-funding round from US venture capital fund Greycroft Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, ACT Venture Capital, Telefónica’s Wayra and Enterprise Ireland. Less than 10 months since launching at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Trustev has grown from four employees to 15. The company has also won the European Commission’s Tech All-Star Award, the result of an 10
EU-wide search to find the best young technology start-up. The US$3m seed round will finance Trustev’s accelerated expansion to the United States, where the company will soon open an office in New York City, as well as further the development of Trustev’s antifraud and payment-protection solutions for e-commerce.
co-founder and CEO Pat Phelan. “In addition to saving tens of millions of dollars through robust fraud prevention, Trustev also helps online merchants increase overseas opportunities by removing the danger of selling across international borders.
“Our focus is on pushing the complexity of fraud into the background, allowing “We’re thrilled to have such a online retailers to concentrate strong pedigree of investors on servicing their honest who believe in our technology customers while we identify the and its proven ability to fight e-commerce fraud,” said Trustev troublemakers,” Phelan said.
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Ireland is a model for Hailo’s plans for worldwide domination You can’t hop into a cab in Dublin these days without the driver excitedly telling you of the wonders of Hailo. We talk to Jay Bregman, CEO and founder of the award-winning taxi app that is now used by one in 10 Dubliners.
Now that the major cities have been captured, the next step is countrywide access to Hailo – which, Bregman explains, is why the strategy in Ireland mirrors Hailo’s plans for the rest of the world.
At just 24 months running, Hailo has seen growth that start-ups dream of in that brief time-frame, spreading from London to Dublin, New York, Barcelona, Toronto, Tokyo and beyond. In Ireland, the app has been downloaded 350,000 times and has recently extended its reach to Cork, Galway and Limerick.
In this interview, Bregman also discusses the importance of serving users on both sides of the equation, explains why Windows Phone has taken a back seat for Hailo, and offers his advice for startups hoping for similar success.
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Leader Lunch For the second year, the Dublin Web Summit last week held an event for women in business and technology called the Leaders Lunch. We teamed up with Think Visual to bring you a visual overview of the event. On Thursday, amid the busy web summit schedule, some of Ireland’s leading women in business and technology gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel Dublin to hear a panel discussion with Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior, Peak Games co-founder Rina Onur and Zepotlab chief revenue officer (CRO) Diana Moldavsky. Laura Sydell of NPR moderated the panel, while Cathriona Hallahan of Microsoft, and Anne Heraty of CPL, also addressed the gathering.
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Whether your data is big or humongous, it has to work in the cloud – MongoDB chair The name MongoDB stems from ‘humongous database’, but chair and co-founder Dwight Merriman says there are more sizes and shapes to data than just ‘big’.
an open problem with the data layer. Traditional databases lacked cloudfriendly properties, such as scalability and ease of operation, and MongoDB set out to devise a system that could run everywhere and function well in a cloud environment.
The storage and accessibility of big data has impacted the way we interact with technology. If you’ve ever used Tomorrow at the Dublin Web Summit, an app, there was likely some sort of Merriman will deliver a keynote address on the Cloud Stage, but today data stored from that interaction. he gave us an insight into growing trends he sees in this sector. Cloud has long been a buzzword in tech and, six years ago, the MongoDB project began to address Link to page http://www.siliconrepublic.com/cloud/item/34666-whether-your-data-is-big-or/
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Evernote’s Phil Libin, Augmented intelligence “Modern knowledge workers are going to demand the same quality of experience everywhere in their lives and so it’s the same people who use Evernote in their personal lives and at work.” Looking to the future Libin, said Evernote is focused on making products that make people smarter as they use them. “The real way to think about it is we want Evernote to present information to you that you need to accomplish whatever you are working on before you have to even think to search for it. We think that even though
we became famous for our searches, if you have to search for something it has already failed. If we had done our job you wouldn’t have had to search because we would have shown you the information before you even had the thought you needed to search for it. “This anticipatory computing is a really big trend that we’re all in at Evernote and not just us, lots of companies are working on this and we are going to do some thing really imaginative things around augmenting your intelligence,” Libin said.
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Let me guess, you’re thinking about what’s for dinner, am I right? You got me!
Dropbox hasn’t spent a cent of US$250m funding raised – Drew Houston Yesterday at the Dublin Web Summit Houston said: “Even when we raised US$250m we haven’t spent it – we were already profitable. We don’t need capital so we have the flexibility. It certainly helps in terms of currency and makes it easier to acquire companies, but the list isn’t long,” Houston said referring to the company’s acquisitions of Foundry Hiring, Endorse, Mailbox, TapEngage, Snapjoy, Audiogalaxy and Cove. Houston said that the focus of the company is currently on making the Dropbox product even better as well as recruiting key hires.
When motivated to make acquisitions like that of Mailbox, Houston said he was inspired by the need to change email for the better. “I hate email, it hasn’t really evolved since the 1970s when it was born,” Houston said, adding that some of the functionality in Mailbox like swipes herald a better future for the medium. “Imagine how many lifetimes of pain are lost by people dealing with inboxes,” Houston said.
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Elon Musk: ‘It would be great in 20 years to have a base on Mars’ Elon Musk, billionaire investor and co-founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla, told the Dublin Web Summit last night that in 20 years’ time he would love to see a base established on Mars. Responding to a question about his vision for humanity 20 years from now, Musk said: “What would be really great would be to have a base on Mars. That is the most powerful thing we can do to secure the long-term future of civilisation. “I see a future where we are exploring the stars. The scope and 22
YEAR 2023... scale of society will be that much greater. That’s a really exciting and inspiring future. We need things that are inspiring. There are lots of problems on Earth but these things inspire me and make me want to get out of bed in the morning. I see a bright future in space.”
There’s a grand strech in the evening?
Those light bulb moments - conquer the climate of fear Parrying the inevitable comparisons with the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Musk said there were characteristics that matter in innovators and leaders. “Steve Jobs was product focused down to the little details. He and other people tried very hard, they had light-bulb things happening … that’s what we are trying to do with the Model S, focus on every detail to bring joy to the owner of the car.”
In good news for potential owners of Tesla cars in Ireland, Musk said a right-hand drive version of the car will begin production in March or April.
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