Call Me +353 86 1724887What Enterprise Ireland are looking for in a New Frontiers Phase 2 Application in 2019?
Are you participating on one of the Enterprise Ireland New Frontiers Phase 1 programmes being delivered by the Incubation Centres in the Institutes of Technology in Ireland? If yes, you may have started completing your Phase 2 application. As a trainer on the programmes in WIT, IT Sligo and GMIT, I would like to share […]
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Mar, 30, 2019
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Early Stage Startups – My Inc60 Podcast – From Idea to a Business
I recently met with Clare Carroll of Inc60 to record a podcast about the pre-startup and early stage business journey. The Lean Canvas as outlined in the book Running Lean is an ideal tool at this stage. The 30-minute podcast also discusses Sales, Mentoring, building your Team and supports for business. Thanks to Maria Staunton […]
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- Oct, 06, 2018
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Organise GMIT New Frontiers One 2 Ones with Phase 1 Participants
As part of the New Frontiers Phase 1 programme in GMIT iHubs, Donncha will meet participants for a One 2 One session to review their draft applications prior to final application on May 17th, 2018 All participants who wish to avail of a slot are required to send a Lean Canvas and a draft of […]
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- Apr, 14, 2018
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Business Model Canvas for Social Enterprise
As I explained in this LinkedIn Pulse article entitled “Inspiring: Social Enterprise in Galway 2016”, I am involved in delivering a new ‘Start a Social Enterprise’ programme on behalf of SCCUL Enterprises and Galway City Partnership – first quarter of 2016 . Workshop 2 addressed business planning. Before the programme commenced, I was wondering whether […]
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- Mar, 15, 2016
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About The Startup Business Planning Jigsaw
Managing a startup business is NOT easy. Startup entrepreneurs have lots of balls in the air. Lean Startup books, theory and practice are brilliant but the question is which model or framework do you follow and when – and are they all relevant to an Irish startup situation? To address this dilemma Donncha devised the […]
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- Posted in 404, Business Plans, Entrepreneurship, Grants and finance, Lean Canvas
- Feb, 23, 2015
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How to present data in a visual format?
Bullet charts are a superb data visualisation tool – if you want to present results of a metric such as Sales across two periods e.g. this year versus last year (or against this year’s target) in for instance a business plan update. The advantage is that they allow presentation of comparative information while also presenting […]
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- Posted in Business Plans, Lean Canvas
- Jul, 08, 2013
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Drop the ‘Lean Startup’ buzzwords please. Promoters, show me the results!
I am proud to be an advocate of the Lean Startup movement. I have worked with lots of startups to firstly explain the principles and secondly to use the tools. Why – because when I read The Lean Startup, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, particularly Running Lean and most recently The Lean Entrepreneur, the […]
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- May, 02, 2013
- 1 Comment.
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