Podcast length – 15:58
Welcome to the IT@Cork pre-conference PR podcasts. In this podcast series, kindly sponsored by Blacknight Solutions, we are talking to some of the speakers in the upcoming 2006 IT@Cork Business and Technology conference.
In this podcast, fourth in the series we are talking to Salim Ismail. Salim is a successful angel investor a serial entrepreneur, and honorary Corkman!
Here are the questions I asked Salim, and the time in the interview I 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
Ok, 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, how 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 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
Download the entire interview here
(7.4mb mp3)
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