Technology has reversed centuries of emigration for the island. Consider the Silicon Docks, a reflective row of progress down the river Liffey. To paraphrase what Jane McDaid of Thinkhouse said in her AdWorld interview, perhaps Ireland was just at the right place (the European Union) at the right time (the Information Age). The country’s ability…
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On FoodCloud Nine
FoodCloud has achieved its success and reputation, in part, through sheer tonnage. They put in the work, palette after palette, in Dublin, Cork, Galway, as well as on the FoodCloud itself. Charity is ancient, but FoodCloud keeps on trying to develop the process. Their planet-first message, oh and by the way less starvation, is but…
One Auxillion Years
Today, Plus3 Ireland returned to Griffith College for the very first guest lecture of the program. Rob Cullen, the most well-networked man in the city, shared with us a little about how to network and why it matters for both businesses and individuals. Rob emphasized that it was not what you know or even who…
My Goodness, My Google
Two of our highest profile visits during the Plus3 Ireland program were to American firms. In comparing Google and Microsoft, some similarities involving the two tech giants were how Dublin acted as a center (centre) for not only Irish operations, but all of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and a little bit of everywhere else…
Shear Brilliance
Baa! BaaAAA!! In large swathes of the country, sheep outnumber the Irish. Perhaps some parity is restored on Saturday and Sundays, when tour buses from Dublin descend onto farms for live demonstrations of this domestication demonstration. Extensive amounts of farmland split our journeys this weekend, with some humble Irish towns latching onto whatever claim to…
Is Féidir Linn: Yes We Can
Hours away from the first titular attraction of today’s agenda, I visited an unbelievable place. Pitt Plus3 Ireland arrived at Barack Obama Plaza in Moneygall. A living memorial to the 44th President of the United States, the first floor features exhibitions on not only Obama but also a variety of Presidents of Irish heritage. A…
A Barrelful of Brilliance
Guinness is good! If not the drink, then at least the Guinness Storehouse. Guinness takes pride in their Irish roots while tending to their profit mission. The symbol of Guinness is that of the nation itself – the majestic golden harp. An electronic version of the instrument, with lasers for strings, was one of many…
100 GECs
We had no clue, but StayCity room 38 was only minutes away from bursting into flames. After my roommate finished a load of laundry, he discovered a lint drawer containing an eye dropper, tin foil, a contact lens case, €0.05, and what must have been years worth… of lint. How could such a simple process,…
Thinkhouse Twice
Along the river Liffey stands a sobering memorial: elongated, malnourished, and miserable figures slowly march towards their deaths, at home or on a coffin ship, during the height of the Irish Potato Famine. All around them, however, rise a multitude of skyscrapers hosting major international firms in the fields of pharmaceuticals, finance, and technology, not…
Blog DOS, Plus1
From my earliest years, I’ve been under the impression that Microsoft was as big a deal as the cathode ray tube monitors of the era. All machines, regardless of their manufacturer or location, were Microsoft. All software was written to run on Windows. Many of the most popular applications out there, like Word, Internet Explorer,…
A Liffey Lesson
“I remember Dublin in the Rare Auld Times,” sang the Dublin City Ramblers in their 1977 song and some graffiti on a mailbox near our apartments. For those practicing business in Ireland today, when even the 70s represents a time radically different from the present, you too should (learn and then) remember some amount about…
An Eye for an Ireland
So starts the blog of Raghu Venkatesh. I am a junior at the University of Pittsburgh College of Business Administration, majoring in Marketing and Supply Chain Management. Befitting my major, I also belong to the Pitt chapter of the American Marketing Association, as well as the League of Emerging Analytical Professionals. This summer, I will…