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Assistance to Plan and Grow Your Business
assistance provided by Donncha to owner-managers and small business owners
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Your Business Survive and Thrive
assistance provided by Donncha to startups and small business owners
Working with You to Start Up and Grow Your Business
Business Training
In-person and virtual (Zoom) group training on Marketing, Sales, Negotiations, Business Models, Value Proposition, Business Plans & Lean Startup. Donncha is a very popular Trainer with New Frontiers and Local Enterprise Offices.
Online Training
Video-based online training programmes - first 6: Pitching (Free); Writing Your Business Plan, Financial Projections, Competitive Start Fund, Complete your Lean Canvas, and New Frontiers.
One to One Support
Strategic and practical guidance towards starting and growing your business - to include preparation of marketing, sales, and investor-ready (HPSU) business plans, and financial projections.
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Tender Document Consultant
Donncha has worked with a range of service providers to win procurement contracts from State funded organisations in Ireland. Process includes: tender strategy, document creation and personnel upskilling
Mentoring
Donncha is a mentor on strategy, business startup and business plans with Enterprise Ireland, LEO Galway and LEO Mayo. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Bizmentors an organisation providing free mentoring in Galway City & County.
Lean Startup Advisor
Donncha's 'Startup Business Planning Jigsaw' uses tools from lean startup books to guide early stage entrepreneurs on their journey from concept to market launch and scaling internationally.
Guide to Self Employment
A Guide to Self Employment in Ireland (updated 2019) - identifies and briefly addresses 24 key issues when starting out as a sole trader, freelancer or contractor - to include: Registration, Taxation, Website and Marketing
WordPress Trainer
Donncha provides Group and One to One WordPress Training – create a modern responsive branded website to promote your business. Three day programme delivered on behalf of LEO Galway in Spring and Autumn each year.
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"We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want."
Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
Feedback from happy customers
Testimonials
We were fortunate enough to engage with Donncha through Enterprise Ireland’s New Frontiers Programme in LyIT. As ‘newbie’ business owners, Donncha’s business mentoring and guidance was instrumental in helping us establish our start-up venture. In the space of a few months, his expert commercial advice brought us from an early stage business idea to securing funding and private equity investment to include CSF support from Enterprise Ireland. Our idea is now becoming a reality!
Donncha, thank you so much for all your help, advice and encouragement through our journey so far. We certainly wouldn’t be in the position we are now if it wasn’t for you and we hope to continue working with you well into the future.

Ken Doherty and Gillian Doyle
I first met Donncha through a GMIT Graduate Entrepreneurship programme just before we launched the business in 2015. He encouraged us to get started - he helped as we pulled together the initial business plan and financial projections. We keep in regular contact and Donncha has assisted at intervals to update our plan and to prepare for Pitches and Enterprise Competitions to include IBYE and the LEO National Enterprise Award which we won in 2019.

Michael Dyer
In 2019, Youth Work Ireland Tipperary engaged Donncha following a tender process, to undertake a feasibility study of a proposed social enterprise to be located in Thurles. We were impressed with the process and the output - an interim report and a final written report which provided the information required by Executive Management and the Board to make a decision on this project. The work plan included market research, stakeholder engagement, and development of a plan incorporating Operations, Personnel and Finance to include set up costs.
