There has been a lot of talk about startups, maybe too much talk, This presentation is not about startups, this presentation is about scaleup and how we can have more of them in Ireland.

1. @joehas
“Not just Startup, but Scaleup”
by Joe Haslam
Chairman, Hot Hotels
Executive Director, #OEMP, IE Business School
The Marker Hotel, Dublin
Friday, 5th September, 2014.

2. - Marc Andreessen "Cheaper to
start, more expensive to grow"
- Schramm’s Law: “The single most
important contributor to a nation’s
economic growth is the number of
startups that grow to a billion dollars
in revenue within 20 years.”
- Brian Caufield: "Ireland good for
FDI, bad for start-ups"

3. Clár an Lae
1. So, who are you?
2. Startup!
3. Scaleup!
4. Ireland
5. Ten Modest Proposals

4. 1. So, who are you?

10. 2. Startups

16. Entrepreneurship and startups are not one
and the same. Many startups are not
entrepreneurial and much entrepreneurship is
not about startups.
Scaling up is vastly harder than starting
up. It typically takes a decade or longer, not
months or a couple years, to build a venture
of value, with any semblance of robustness
and return. The few that pop through in a
few years are by far the aberration.

21. 3. Scaleups

22. 1. Spread mindset, not just footprint.
2. Engaging all the senses. (Personally, I want every lobby to smell like coffee or popcorn.)
3. Link short-term realities to long-term dreams.
4. Accelerate accountability.
5. Fearing the clusterfug.
6. Scaling requires both addition and subtraction.
7. Slow down to scale faster - and better - down the road.
http://www.slideshare.net/Bob_Sutton/scaling-up-excellence

30. “Without startups, net job creation for the American economy would be negative”

32. 3. Ireland

42. On April 30, 1961, Dr. Leonid Rogozov removed his own infected appendix at the Soviet
Novolazarevskaja Research Station in Antarctica, as he was the only physician on staff

47. 5. Ten Modest Proposals

48. 1. Stop Doing Stupid Shit

49. 2. Let Market Pick Winners

50. 3. Price Stability. Low Inflation
Black porter,
Imperial pint measure
WALFORD - 24 Shrewsbury Road,
Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

51. 4. CGT on Jobs = 33%, Buildings =0

52. 5. Silicon Valley no t Right for Ireland

53. 6. Engage with Diaspora

54. 6. Universities are for Education
“In my view, the Irish
national system must
make every effort to have
one Irish university
amongst the top 10 in the
world”
Chris Horn
September 16, 2011

55. 7. I ❤ EI Start in Ireland Program

56. 8. Low Regulation is New Low Tax

57. 9. Let SMEs sell Share Capital

58. 10 – No Entrepreneur Left Behind
“The most memorable stories in Hatching Twitter
almost invariably involve Dorsey, who rises from
his early programming days as an anarchist with
a speech impediment to a man who co-founds
two billion-dollar companies