For every success story, remember others that end up on scrapheap

Google Glass connected glasses were set to be a big seller but then invasion of privacy issues surfaced, writes Terry Prone

Entrepreneurs to the right, entrepreneurs to the left. Distrupters right, left and centre. Here we go again. Now that money is a bit more fluairseach and every county in Ireland has a dozen state-related bodies pushing self-starters, now that every second conference is aimed at those with the courage, innovation and sense of self to start their own business, it’s all go.

Which inevitably means that within a few years, many of the can’t-fail better-mousetrap concepts currently getting seed capital or crowd-funding will have bitten the dust, with the concomitant comment that Ireland is a bad place in which to fail. America is much better, goes the trope.