Podcast: Salim Ismail, entrepreneur

10-11-2006

by Tom Raftery

In the fourth in a series of pre-event podcasts interviewing speakers attending the 2006 IT@Cork Business and Technology Conference, Tom talks to Salim Ismail, a successful angel investor, serial entrepreneur and honorary Corkman.

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Here are the questions Tom asked Salim, and the time in the interview he asked them:

You are coming back to Cork - you seem to like it here... 0:21

Can you give us some more info on your background? I have you down as a serial entrepreneur, can you expand on that? - 0:47

You are starting two businesses at the moment -- can you tell us about those? - 01:51

And when is that business scheduled to launch? - 02:27

Which brings us on neatly to the topic of your talk at the it@cork conference, "Global domination on a limited budget"... - 02:53

Can you tell us how you put together a globally known site on little or no budget? - 03:30

Okay, that is the current application, but you mentioned four sites you developed -- they can't all have used that methodology... 04:33

And do you use a lot of Open Source software? Would that be an important part of keeping your costs down? - 05:38

If your people are working part-time and you are on a limited budget, how long does a site like that take to develop? - 06:07

It is one thing to build a site, it is quite another to build traffic to the site. Hw does one go about that? - 07:25

The people you have onboard -- how did you source them? - 09:17

Are the distributed workforce distributed across the States or distributed globally? - 10:22

Are you going to spend on traditional marketing or will you be using Web 2.0 marketing to get the word out? - 11:23

And what is the business model? - 12:42

And will the six people stay part-time? - 13:19

Finally, what would be your primary recommendations to anyone thinking of starting a company at the moment? - 13:54

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