Dublin Business Innovation Centre is organising an EnterpriseSTART Programme, a series of 8 sessions delivered over 3 weeks starting 10th May, 2008. The Programme is a joint venture between DBIC and Enterprise Ireland and it is aimed at individuals with new business ideas in technology or knowledge
intensive sectors with export potential. The Programme provides potential entrepreneurs with information on what is involved in running a new business as well as a realistic market perspective on creating a sustainable enterprise. It runs outside of office hours to enable individuals with full-time jobs to attend. The programme is heavily subsidised (70%) resulting in a fee of €275 per person. Please refer to the attached brochure and our homepage for further details about the Programme.
http://www.dbic.ie/index.php?page=enterprise_start_programme
Structure of the Programme
This programme will be delivered over 8 modules each comprising of a Saturday morning (five hours) and Tuesday and Thursdays evenings (3 hours)
The following are the Modules:
MODULE 1 The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Finding the Opportunity & Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
MODULE 2 The Business Planning Process – objectives, market assessment, strategy development and implementation
MODULE 3 The New Venture, Team Managing a start-up, Business Ethics, Legal Issues
The Protection & Management of Intellectual Property
MODULE 5 The Financial Plan, Raising Finance, Financial Supports
MODULE 6 The Marketing Plan
MODULE 7 The Sales Plan
MODULE 8 Presenting the Business plan. Summarising the Entrepreneurial Process , Next Steps