Small business is big news in Ireland. Big, big news. Most businesses in Ireland slot into the category small-to-medium sized enterprises or SME’s. Of these SME’s, 90% are very small indeed, with 1-10 employees. They still employ over half of the country’s population. That’s probably one person to handle billing, accounts, taxes, inventory, audits, government […]
Small companies are team, goalie, centre back and centre forward all in one. Here’s how 8 tackled marketing. I’m a sucker for stories about how small and new businesses market themselves. Maybe it’s because they tend to involve the unexpected. Maybe because sometimes, they’re surprisingly moving. Of course, the small business itself will tell you […]
Ireland is experiencing a startup funding bonanza. Every day, the Irish media reveals that another startup has received funding in the many millions of euros. The numbers are in. Irish tech firms have more than doubled the amount of money they raised, compared to only a year ago. In the last 12 months, the top […]
If your company is ignoring what people are posting, tweeting and commenting online, you are risking more than an embarrassing selfie on Facebook. You may be surprised to find that people are forming opinions of your business based on social media chatter. If so, you’re not alone. One third of Irish companies are ignoring their […]
“Data Breach” has become part of our vocabulary, where bugs are branded like companies with their own cool logos like the heartbleed bug. You’re right if you think this is a fairly recent development. Reports of the biggest data breaches recorded started in 2005. Much of this growth can be explained by a massive explosion […]
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the big payments players announced plans to not only live in your phone and watch but in anything and everything of yours that can connect to the internet. What you wear, what you drive and where you keep your milk could all be used as payment devices. Visa’s program […]
Just outside of Adare, you will find 8,000 metres of Christmas. This wonderland is called Adare Creamery and it contains everything you could possibly want from Christmas. You can expect not only beautiful decorations and trees all lovingly created by the Adare family but also a warm welcome from a business that goes out of […]
A Commissioner for Start-Ups, an Entrepreneur and an Venture Capitalist walk into a web summit…and give some great analysis of the Irish environment for new businesses. Okay not so funny, but Niamh Bushnell, Brian Caulfield and Noel Ruane were insightful, down-to-earth and ,yes, entertaining in the start-up panel of the 2015 Web Summit 2015 last […]
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