Startup Commons and the Startup
Gathering
As part of the national Startup Gathering our
organisation were commissioned to prepare and
run breakout sessions in 5 cities. These
breakout sessions were a starting point in the
process of each city better understanding the
strengths of their startup ecosystem and how to
strengthen it. Equally the goal was to provide an
initial trigger for each city to use the mechanism
of a Startup Manifesto to accelerate the
development of each city’s plan to strengthen its
startup ecosystem and link with the national
vision for Ireland to become a global startup hub
by 2020.
There was significant preparation required in
advance of the week of the Startup Gathering.
The goal of each breakout session was to
achieve consensus on what the key questions
each city needed to ask in order to better
understand the stage of development of its
startup ecosystem.