startup ireland survey october 2014
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Findings from the first ever survey of over 300 startups, incubators and accelerators in Ireland, in partnership with startupireland.ie.TRANSCRIPT
Startup Ireland Survey An Amárach Research Briefing
to the Vision2020 Forum October 2014
284 startups
21 accelerators/incubators
What’s the current state of play?
What’s working/not working?
Which way(s) forward?
What’s the current state of play?
30% 34% 36%
Ideation/pre-startup
Started less than1 year ago
Started less than3 years ago
Lifestage?
40%
18% 18%
24%
At home Co-working/incubation
space
On incubator/acceleratorprogramme
In rentedoffices
Base: working full time on startup n=253
Location
Male: 80% Female: 20%
Under 35: 43% Over 35: 57%
Irish: 84% Other: 16%
Startup-ers
My first startup
Involved in startup
before
46% 54%
Serial Entrepreneurs?
19%
4%
5%
5%
26%
45%
46%
Other
Life Sci/ Bio
Hardware
Cleantech/ Energy
Mobile/ App
Business/ Enterprise
Consumer/ Internet
Sectoral Focus
What’s working/not working?
39% 46%
37% 36% 24% 29% 25%
30% 15% 21%
16%
21% 9% 6%
Earlystage
funding
Scalingsupports
Staffingtalent
Earlysales
Statesupport
Workingspace
Businessskills
Fairly difficult Extremely difficult
Growth Barriers
Trends Report
15% 24%
67%
Patents Trade Marks None
Any IP?
Which way(s) forward?
36% 54%
78%
41% 20%
13% 16% 14%
4%
Irish startup sectorwell served by
government policy
Startup sector wellrepresented like other
business sectors
Irish startup sector isoperating at full
potential
No Sort of Yes
Gaps
Incubator Survey
• 62% are incubators; 57% are accelerators • all offer space; mentoring; training: third offer equity
• most accommodate 15-30 startups at any time
• typical acceptance rate = 5% to 15% (up to 90%) • could support 10-20 more startups each programme if had the space