Sean Blanchfield’s Post

My first visit to ormeau labs / baths in Belfast. Beautiful place, wonderful people, ambitious teams. When I left the building I noticed it's across the road from the Limelight, which I last visited late night ~15 years ago for a dose of hard rock or metal, and emerged into a dark quiet end of town to spend an hour and a half looking for a taxi. I bet a taxi wouldn't take long these days!

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Dylan Collins and I sat down to record a podcast about the early history of Demonware, the video games tech company we founded 20 years ago and sold to Activision. We had ring side seats to the mainstream emergence of online gaming. What an adventure! Links plus a transcript here: https://lnkd.in/e8W9vH4J Feat. Steven Collins hugh reynolds Paul Hayes 🐶 Eoin ó Fearghail David Corcoran John Kirk Craig McInnes Robert Synnott Vladislav Titov Michael Collins Steffen Higel Morgan Brickley Art Santos Ian Kehoe

I was privileged to spend the last few months working with some amazing founders in the NDRC accelerator programme in Dogpatch Labs. Accelerator programmes should never be "entrepreneur school". But they can raise ambition, prep operations for scale, and connect you into a world-class network of peers, mentors, advisers and investors. It was incredibly rewarding to help make these kinds of high-impact contributions to our teams. This is made possible by the magic of Dogpatch Labs and the unbelievable flow of entrepreneurs, operators and investors who pass through its doors, and who make their time available to pay it forward. Applications are now open for the H2-2024 Summer programme, a hybrid programme tailored to you, investing €100k on an uncapped basis. We especially encourage applications from startups based outside of Dublin, or entrepreneurs using AI to scale a previously unscalable type of business. We've redesigned the application form so it's fast to complete and convenient for your AI assistant. Let us be the wind at your back!