irish national-startup-survey-by-amarach-research
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Startup Ireland SurveyAn Amárach Research Briefingto the Vision2020 ForumOctober 2014
284startups
46%involved instartups before
54%My firststartup
21accelerators/incubators
30%
Ideationpre-startup
Started less than1 year ago
Started less than3 years ago
34% 36%
15%
Patents Trademarks None
24% 67%
40%At Home
18%Co WorkingIncubation
Space
18%On incubator,acceleratorprogramme
24%SharedOfficeSpace
Other 19%
Life Sci/Bio 4%
Hardware 5%
Consumer/Internet 46%
Business/Enterprise 45%
Mobile/App 26%
CleanTech/Energy 5%
Growth Barriers
Location
39%46%
15%
46%
24%
21%
30%
36%37%
21%
29%
9%16%
25%
6%
Early StageFunding
ScalingSupports
StaffingTalents
Fairly Difficult Extremely Difficult
EarlySales
StateSupport
WorkingSpace
BusinessSkills
14% Yes
20% Sort of
54% No
4% Yes
13% Sort of
78% No
16% Yes
41% Sort of
36% No Irish startup sector well served by
government policy
Startup sector well representedlike other business sectors
Irish startup sector is operatingat full potential