Developing eWrite

Bummer. Received an email from Seedcamp yesterday thanking me for applying and unfortunately I didn’t make the short list this year. I was pleased enough to get the email at all, last year I applied without any preparation and received no response. You get back what you put in i suppose. This year I put some work into the application, I didn’t make it but thats OK, I have plenty to learn to help me to promote the work we do with the eWrite software.

Earlier in the month my hopes were raised when I saw that someone involved in Seedcamp signed up to try our eWrite Lite free demo. To use the demo you supply a name and website address. I checked the address and found it to be a site involved with Seedcamp. I was very happy to see they had taken a look and begun to get a little twinge of hope that we might make it through.

It would be amazing to get some feedback from the judges, I imagine this wouldn’t be very practical though, I suspect they’ve had a lot of entires to look though. 100 more entries this year than last year according to their email. Im pleased they looked at the demo at all and I’ll take it as a complimet and continue working hard.

Maybe next year

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Last night I spent the last few hours leading up to the Seedcamp deadline tweaking my application and finally submitted it at 11:41pm.

Last Thursday a few of us got together in Oriel house in Ballincollig to see if we could assist each other in our applications. At first I was disappointed with the turn out of only 4 people. Lesson learned, going to make sure I have numbers before I organise anything again.

I got great value out of that morning though. Thank you very much to Conor O’Neill, Phoebe Bright and Dara Burke for being there to chat about ideas and for practical tips. We created documents and shared them using Google Docs to virtually look over each others shoulders and offer suggestions where we could. I think I received (needed?) the most suggestions. Thanks again to Conor, Phoebe and Dara for your suggestions on the application form.

Also, Thank you to Robin Blandford. I think he was the only one to put his own answers to the Seedcamp application on his blog to get some feedback from his readers. Robin also allowed me to print out his answers to use last Thursday as a guide. Thanks Robin and the very best of luck with your application for Decisions for Heroes!

Roll on the 25th…

The Corbally Suite of Oriel House Hotel has been booked on August 7th for the day for an informal brainstorming session for applications for Seedcamp.

Last week, Conor O’Neill created a poll to see if there was any interest in a meet up like this. There seems to be enough to warrant a group to get together and help each other out in filling in the application form.I have a PDF version of the online form so I’ll have print outs on the day.

If you’re interested in attending, wander in on the day, especially if you have any experience in apply for Seedcorn last year that could help someone else.

Tea or coffee is available in the lobby or the bar and free wifi available too. To find the Corbally suite, come in the main door, reception is to your left. To the left of the reception is a doorway leading down corridors to the old section of the building (in the picture above). The Corbally suite is one of the first couple of rooms and is labelled.

Hopefully I’ll see you there. Email me if theres anything I can help with.

Conor O Neill recently wrote a post on web2ireland.org regarding Seedcamp and putting in an application before the deadline.

In the comments, we talked about gathering a few people together from Cork with the aim of helping each other fill out the forms a little better than we might do on our own. I imagine I’d be quite embarrassed to read what I wrote in the forms last year, and I’d certainly benefit from any input or feedback that anyone can offer.

Open Coffee would be ideal for this, though with holidays and the deadline of Seedcamp, ad ah-hoc session is needed.

Anyone interested in meeting in Oriel House Hotel in Ballincollig to help polish their form filling talents?

Conor has put up a poll at web2ireland to gauge interest in this meet-up.