Managing the lives of busy professionals is paying dividends for Galway-based e-venture Busylizz.ie Established in 2004 by entrepreneur Tara Dalrymple, the company provides lifestyle management services to private clients, sole traders and small ventures.
Galway-based biotech Embricon is seeking funding to bring its first product, a medical tool to treat varicose veins, to market.
A spin-out of NUI Galway, Embricon has already raised e500,000 to commercialise the product. Its target is e2 million in private investment and a further e1.2 million in grant funding.
The firm has a history of success in the funding field. It secured finance under Enterprise Ireland's High Potential Start-up Scheme shortly after its launch in 2005.
As middle aged ‘old economy’ businessmen, we used to think that the teccies talking about internet time being 6 or 7 times faster than real time was an exaggeration. We were wrong. Six months into the launch of smallbusinesscan, we are launching anther major upgrade. Some of us have been in the IT industry most of our adult lifes and we have a saying about software – launch early and launch often – but the internet takes this to a new level.
The Commission for Aviation Regulation estimates that around 20 travel operators folded in past year as the sector has been impacted by the downturn. One firm that has defied the slump is Kinsale-based niche operator Magic Vacations. The company was founded by John Barrett in February 2008 and specialises in long-haul travel and all things to do with Disney such as Disneyland Paris, Disney World Orlando and the Disney cruises.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is also known as on-line marketing. It is crucial to the success of any business to incorporate SEO into the design of their website and also to use it to promote their on line presence, their business, products and services.
Emma Smyth
BSc(Hons) MSc
Innovate NI
Managing Director & Marketer
www.innovateni.com
Before taping started at a smallbusinesscan Start-Up workshop in ther Ulster Bank offices in Carrigaline, Cork, recently the SBC moderator asked some of the 100 businesses that turned up why anyone in their right mind would event think of starting a business in the current environment. Answers from; 'my boss is making all the money from my ideas' to 'I have an idea, I always wanted to work for myself and I now have some redundanct money' to 'What flippin choice doI have, there's no jobs out there' were given in what turned into a lively evening.
Jenny and Peter Young took over the 100-year-old family farm in 1999. Located between Kilcullen and Athy, the 170-acre site is predominantly a dairy farm, but they also keep a flock of 200 free-range hens for eggs and 100 cattle for beef.
Keep watching the sports on TV; keep going to those matches every weekend; explain to your spouse that it's work. If the match is live down the pub it's networking. Here, in the company of one of football's most successful managers, Tyrone's Mickey Harte, we take a look at what businesses can learn from the sporting world.
We've teamed up with iFarm. Country and city united. Together we can help each other share knowledge, insights, experience and contact networks needed to generate growth for our businesses.
Touring car driver Emmet O'Brien established NoH2O, Ireland's first waterless and eco-friendly car valeting service, in 2007. O'Brien, who continues to race on famous international circuits like Monza and Estoril, hit upon the idea for the venture while on the track.
