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Boxing above your weight - Chris Horn

One of the founders of IONA, Chris Horn and a leading light in the Irish technology sector has an excellent post on his blog - titled “Boxing above your weight” Some extracts I strongly advise that you should consider having a close business partner with whom you can share your concerns and excitement, and who will share [...]

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Innovative, export-focused firms will fuel economic recovery

Ireland's economic recovery will only be sustainable if it is generated by export-led growth fuelled by innovative firms in Ireland, according to the new President of Engineers Ireland, Iona Technologies co-founder, Dr Chris Horn.

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Innovative export firms will fuel economic recovery

Ireland's economic recovery will only be sustainable if it is generated by export-led growth fuelled by innovative firms in Ireland, according to the new President of Engineers Ireland, Iona Technologies co-founder, Dr Chris Horn.

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Theology on Tap Cincinnati Spring Season Kicks off Thursday!

Theology on Tap Cincinnati’s Spring Season kicks off this Thursday, with former NFL wide Receiver Chris Horn flying in from Phoenix, Arizona, to share his story of perseverance and persistence in following his dream. Using lessons he learned in his playing days, Chris shares the how the discipline required to achieve the highest levels of sport provide a great paradigm for achieving virtue in...

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Theology on Tap Cincinnati Schedule Released!

The schedule for this year's Theology on Tap Cincinnati spring season is now released! Highlights: April 23: NFL Wide Reciever Chris Horn April 30: Gina Loehr May 7: Matt Swaim May 14: Seminarian Adam Puntel May 21: Missionary Shannon Walsh May 28: Co-Adjutor Archbishop Dennis Schnurr All events at Ticket's Sport's Cafe, 100 W. Sixth, Covinton, KY 7:00 Drinks 7:30 Speaker 8:30 Questions 9:30 Praise...

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Irish Technology heavyweights behind new startup - Gridstore

Iona Technologies founders Chris Horn and Sean Baker, Norkom founder, Paul Kerley and entrepreneur, Brian Caulfield - have joined up with Marrakech founder, Kelly Murphy in a new stealth startups - called Gridstore. The company is developing next-generation data storage system. Check recent SBPost article . [limited info available - feel free to send comments] CrunchBase [...]

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Core Skills in Ireland

LISTENING TO LIAM NOONAN chatting with Matt Cooper on Irish drivetime radio reminded me of the difference between core skills and upskills in Ireland. It's a distinction made by Chris Horn who contends, "there is not so much a need to upskill, but to 'core skill'--to get back to fundamentals and thus ensure that we have a solid foundation of lifetime skills." It's something I think goes all...

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Fluffy Links - Tuesday January 13th 2009

Recruit Ireland are giving free ads to Limerick companies. Fair play. And for those in Limerick, Evert and Chris are giving free advice. Emily Tully is giving free PR Advice. Via Adrian: Chris Horn tears a new one over Dell. Mary Coughlan, the Government and Michael Dell are not spared. Thank fuck someone who has weight is saying [...]

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Chris Horn rips into Michael Dell

Chris Horn, Iona co-founder, has a thoughtful post on Dell's demise in Ireland. He also criticises Michael Dell ("unprofessional") for not turning up to tell the staff first-hand. There's also criticism for the Tanaiste, Mary Coughlan.

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The problems with (M) Dell, part 2

According to Chris Horn, who isn’t pulling many punches these days over on his blog: Although the demise of Dell’s manufacturing was not a surprise, I was frankly surprised and disappointed by aspects of the way the announcement was made. Dell quite rightly insisted that they would tell their own staff first before anyone else. [...]

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Too much science at Science Foundation Ireland?

Following on the CSET announcement last week by the Tanaiste (see below), Chris Horn has a challenging blog post on both the public perception of the value of science and tech R&D, and a spicy take on the broader issue of what SFI is funding and why and the (lack of a ) bigger picture. A [...]

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Burton looking more like Horn

Bryce Burton is putting up some Chris Horn-like numbers this fall as a wide receiver at Rocky Mountain College. That shouldn't come as much of a surprise when you consider Burton is also wearing Horn's old number. ...

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Bill Bighaus: Ex-Bear Horn still battling for NFL job

Chris Horn said he is "trying like crazy" to get his foot back in the National Football League's door, but there is also a chance his next pass reception or punt return could come in the Canadian Football League. The 30-year-old Horn was back in Billi ...

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IIA’s nasty infection

The Irish Internet Association have a weblog at blog.iia.ie . Back on January 30, this had a Technorati rank of 587893, with 21 inbound links from 14 blogs. That’s about what you’d expect — comparable with Chris Horn’s blog , for instance. However, fast forward to today, and in the intervening 3 months, it seems to have suddenly shot up to 23,322 inbound links from 550 blogs,...

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Xcellerate 2008 - Key Success Factors

Speaker: Chris Gill, CEO & President, SVASE Panelists: Chris Horn, Founder & Chairman, IONA Technologies Shay Garvey, Partner, Delta Partners Damien Eastwood, Angel Investor, Xcellangels Presentation by Chris: Formula for Success Team (50% of value) Idea (20% of value) Plan...