Tagged: Mentoring & News
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Future of Startupbootcamp in Dublin will be health tech News
23.05.2012 Next year’s Startupbootcamp is set to zero in on well-being and health start-ups. That’s according to co-founder Eoghan Jennings, who said the start-up accelerator is to partner...Categories: Software Development, Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Enterprise, Economy, Digital Business, Apps -
10 social entrepreneurs get €700K from Arthur Guinness Fund News
23.05.2012 Ten social enterprises are set to receive financial and business support to the value of €700,000 from the 2012 Arthur Guinness Fund. The Minister for the Environment, Community... -
New Sweat for Equity programme to get start-ups going News
11.05.2012 Techies, creatives and those with ideas for new start-ups can now apply for Swequity Exchange, a new programme that the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) in Ireland is... -
Startupbootcamp brings the public into its start-up mix News
25.04.2012 Startupbootcamp in Dublin has added a new online competition so the public can vote for their favourite start-up out of the 10 new ventures that are now engaged in its... -
Bill Liao advises investors on how to look after start-ups (video) News
20.04.2012 Internet entrepreneur and investor Bill Liao gave the second keynote at Angel MeetUp in Dublin this week, where he offered five nuggets of advice to angel investors when they're...Categories: Web, The Pitch, Sustainability, Software, Sales, Marketing, Investments, Internet, Education, Economy -
Startupbootcamp reveals 10 finalists for investing pitches News
16.04.2012 Start-up accelerator Startupbootcamp in Dublin has today named the 10 finalists that will make investment pitches at its first-ever Investor Demo Day. -
Uni teams Woogie Tap and Happy Swap win upStart awards News
29.03.2012 Woogie Tap from Queen’s University Belfast and Happy Swap from Trinity College Dublin are the two teams that have won the first-ever upStart entrepreneurship programme. Their...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Science, R&D, Internet, Intellectual Property, Graduate, Financial, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Young scientists start business bootcamp at UCD News
26.03.2012 Thirty-two second-level students from the island of Ireland have started a mentoring and innovation skills camp today at University College Dublin. The aim of the bootcamp,... -
Emerging entrepreneurs to hit Kinsale for two days of coaching News
26.03.2012 Up to 23 emerging entrepreneurs from Ireland, the US, Spain and the UK will be heading to Kinsale, Co Cork, later this week for a coaching event to fast track their ideas. -
Tech start-up of the week: RYPL News
11.03.2012 This week, our featured tech start-up is RYPL, a new med-tech venture that has relocated from California to Dublin, as it’s now engaged in the Startupbootcamp start-up...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Mobile, Life Sciences, Internet, Intellectual Property, Engineering, Engineer, Computers -
Seven start-ups raise €3.15m between them to scale up News
08.03.2012 Seven CorkBIC clients have raised investment and funding worth €3.15m within the past 12 months, after connecting with angel investors at the incubation centre’s entrepreneur...Categories: Careers and Employment, CIO, Consumer Tech, Economy, Intellectual Property, Internet, Investments, IT Consulting, Life Sciences, Marketing, Mobile, Online Business, R&D, Science -
Self-starters to talk female entrepreneurship at seminar News
06.03.2012 Against the backdrop of this Thursday being International Women’s Day, entrepreneurs, including Lauren Fisher of Simply Zesty and Gráinne Barry of Anotherfriend.com, will be... -
Eircom launches Start Up initiative for new ventures News
05.03.2012 Eircom has set up a new initiative called Start Up to reach out to innovative start-ups that are less than two years old. The Small Firms Association and First-Step Microfinance...Categories: Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Competitions, Business Software, Economy, Education, Enterprise, Funding, Internet, Investments, Media, R&D, Social Media -
Startup Weekend gets ready to hit Dublin tomorrow News
01.03.2012 There appears to be a real start-up fever in Ireland at the minute, as more than 100 people have signed up to participate in Dublin’s leg of Startup Weekend, which starts...Categories: Careers and Employment, Consumer Tech, Design, Development, Digital Business, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Engineer, Engineering, Funding, Graduate, Intellectual Property, Internet, Investments, Media, Mobile, Multimedia, Research, Social Media, Software, Software & Web Development, Software Development -
Tech Start-up of the Week: Brandalism News
26.02.2012 This week’s featured technology start-up is Brandalism, a Dublin-based venture that was set up in 2010 to help companies with their online business strategies.Categories: Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Design, Digital Media, eCommerce, Internet, Multimedia, Research, Social Media, Web, Web 2.0, Web Design, Web Development -
New NI start-up spins out of NISP Springboard programme News
03.02.2012 Northern Ireland start-up Thermblow, a spin-out of the Polymer Research Cluster at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), has become the latest graduate from the NISP CONNECT... -
Arthur Guinness Fund and Ireland’s social entrepreneurship upsurge News
03.02.2012 The 2012 Arthur Guinness Fund has received applications seeking financial support and mentoring from a record 400 social entrepreneurs and community groups spanning the island...Categories: Digital Media, Economy, Funding, Internet, Investments, Jobs, Social Media, Software & Web Development, Sustainability -
NDRC checks out start-ups for next LaunchPad accelerator News
01.02.2012 The National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) is evaluating 70 Irish and international applications for its next LaunchPad programme that’s starting in mid-February at the Digital...Tags: Digital Hub, Dublin, Start-ups, Ireland, NDRC, Mentoring, Venture Capital, Social Commerce, SOSventures, Bill Liao, -
Clear Angle Technologies taps into energy management drive News
29.01.2012 Set up in mid-2010 Clear Angle Technologies is the brainchild of Barry Cullen and Kevin O’Toole. The duo came up with the idea for the start-up when they were doing engineering...Categories: Economy, CIO, Energy, Green, Green Tech, Intellectual Property, Jobs, R&D, Research, Science, Sustainability -
Irish start-up to compete for IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year News
20.01.2012 After winning the 2011 IBM SmartCamp London last November, Dublin competitor pricing intelligence firm Profitero is now preparing to compete in the 2012 IBM SmartCamp Global...