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