WE ARE HEADED to Limerick OpenCoffee today where we expect to meet up with Patrick Collison again and hear him discuss effective ways of getting funded for your first million euro of technology development. The Collison brothers (on the couch at left) visited Limerick OpenCoffee on 10 August 2007 when they talked about their power seller software. We recorded a podcast then and a few months later we snapped 15 minutes of the Collison brothers from RTE's Late Late show. The national television appearance came on the heels of the Collisons becoming Ireland's first teen technology millionaires. There are lessons to be shared in their accomplishments and we'll share some of those throwaway comments in a live video stream produced by a third year multimedia students at http://qik.com/topgold beginning at 1130 GMT on Thursday 3 April 2008 from the Absolute Hotel during Limerick OpenCoffee (see photos). You can comment directly to the Qik stream or post a question in the Jaiku Irish Open Coffee channel.
I enjoy seeing the Collison brothers appear in my newsrounds.
Portions of Limerick OpenCoffee are supported by the creative multimedia syllabus at Tipperary Institute.
