Startup Ireland SurveyAn Amárach Research Briefing
to the Vision2020 ForumOctober 2014
284startups
21Acceleratorsincubators
Current State of Play
Ideation/ pre-startup
Started less than 1 year ago
Started less than 3 years
ago
30% 34% 36%
Lifestage
240%
18% 18% 24%
Base: working full time on startup n=253
Location
Startups80%Male 20%Female
43%Under 35 57%Over 3584%Irish 35 16%Other 35
Entrepreneurs
46%Involved in
startups before
54%My firststartup
Sectoral Focus
Working/Not Working
Early stage
funding
Scaling supports
Staffing talent
Early sales
State support
Working space
Business skills
39% 46% 37% 36%24% 29% 25%
30% 15%21% 16%
21% 9%6%
Fairly difficult Extremely difficult
Growth Barriers
Trends Report
Any IP
15%Patents
24%Trademarks
67%None
Which way forward
Irish startup sector well served by government policy
16%Yes
41%Sort of
36%No
Startup sector well represented like other business sectors
14%Yes
20%Sort of
54%No
Irish startup sector is operating at full potential
4%Yes
13%Sort of
78%No
Incubator Survey62%
Incubators57%
accelerators
15-30startups atany time
5% - 15%Typical
AcceptanceRate
Could Support 10-20 moreStartups if space was
available
Space Mentoring
Training Third OfferEquity
Strong startup cultureCommon constraints
Potential PipelineCapacity limits
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