PABCAS, the blog of Paul Martin Campbell

Just back from lunch in the Winding Stair with Alistair , Richard , Olivier and Niall ... Note to the winding stair: you should get a website, or some SEO if you have one!

The lunch was the last of us standing after OpenCoffee Dublin … yet again another successful event with a few new faces – most notably Brian and Bernard from InterTrade Ireland. Brian was gathering contacts and ideas for a networking event to promote Inter Trade’s services to the grass roots entrepreneurial community. We had some good discussion about how we can infiltrate the culture and engender leadership amongst the community.

I argued that it’s leadership at an educational level that might spark the biggest problem. I remember a conversation I had last year with Eamon Conway of the UL Centre for Culture, Technology and Values of UL ... where we discussed the promotion of leadership programmes as part of the education system. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, for example, cite courses of such nature being very inspirational in helping them build Google.

Another theme cropping up recently and one that I cited Derek Organ on from his blog post was the need to “think big” for new enterprises. I’ve heard this said so much recently. I remember watching Oliver Stone in Trinity mentioning how he thought the upcoming crop of new filmmakers didn’t think big enough. Recently ReadWriteWeb blogged about how “Apple is playing this game to win and to win big.”

So just what will be the next big idea? And in the words of Farzad Jamal “How’s does it make money?”