The 2012 Intertrade Seedcorn competition is opening on April 30th. Intertrades Seedcorn is one of the more valuable start-up competitions out there; it hones your businessplan and pitching skills along the way and has a substantial financial reward for the winner (total fund of €280,000). I can recommend it to almost any suitable start-up. Below are [...]
In our work with the Greenhouse we see a lot of businessplans and are on the receiving end of a lot of pitches. Some are good and some are not so good. Overall the quality of has improved in the last 12 months or so. The quality of the information provided is slowly improving indicating [...]
The benefits and drawbacks of employment vs self-employment is something that comes up time and again in discussions with entrepreneurs. The below infogram illustrates a lot of the factors ina clear and concise way.
09.09Open Season.
September is always the month that everything & everybody swings back in to action after the summer break. The same goes for start-up programs. Applications for a number of these have opened. We will list them below and update the list as we find out about more. DCU Ryan academy / Propeller Accelerator: The Propeller Venture [...]