Early Stage Ventures - Support Structures and How to Exploit Them
Guest speaker, Evert Bopp will discuss the various forms of support available to early stage business ventures. Topics covered will include facilities, funding, mentoring and on-line & face-to-face networking.
Various support mechanisms currently being provided by state bodies will be considered as well as the incubators & development programs offered by the private sector and educational institutes. Funding opportunities such as CEB support, EI grants and Angel/Seed funding will also be covered. In addition, Evert will outline the benefits of mentoring programs, how they work and who should use them.
Finally, he will explore the huge benefits of networking (on and offline). Evert will give his own take on this low-cost tool that entrepreneurs can use to promote themselves, their businesses, their brand or product and to make invaluable contacts with long-reaching benefits.
To register for the April 28th LINK! event please email Miriam Ahern, LINK! Network manager link@dceb.ie
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Dublin City Enterprise Board
LINK! Start-up Business Network – April Event
O’Callaghan Mont Clare Hotel, Clare St.
Tuesday 28th April 2009, 6.00pm – 8.30pm
(Register* for this event: link@dceb.ie)
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About the speaker
Evert Bopp is a Dutch national living in Ireland since 1995, he’s a serial entrepreneur with string of companies behind him http://www.linkedin.com/in/evertbopp
Most of Evert’s ventures have been in the wireless voice & data industry but he is now branching out by opening a start-up incubator (www.greenhouselimerick.com) in Limerick (with plans for other incubators across the country).
Evert is also known for being the person who offered Irish Rail to install a wifi service on their trains free of charge!
More recently he has spearheaded the limerick Open Coffee Club meetings and is also one of the people behind Bizcamp Limerick (www.bizcamplimerick.com).
*For hospitality and housekeeping purposes, network members and guests must pre-register to attend DCEB networking events.