Getting Started:
Link! – Dublin City Enterprise Board’s network for start-up businesses.
List of 13 steps to starting your own business – advice for start-ups in 13 sentences
BASE CentreThe BASE Enterprise Centre helps people in two ways. First, to start their own business and second, to grow their existing businesses. We do this by providing incubation units for start-up businesses, enterprise units for growth-inclined businesses, by providing information and advice, by allowing access to local and national enterprise-support agencies and by providing an environment for clients to network and develop their business network.
Get2Business – All-island guide to business support services, developed by InterTradeIreland to help businesses find the information you need, quickly and easily, from business planning and financial assistance to training and networking opportunities.
Employ Ireland – Starter info on starting your own business in Ireland
Companies Registration Office – Register your company
The Digital Hub – The Digital Hub is an international centre for digital media enterprise, learning and research based in the Dublin 8 area. (email locate@thedigitalhub.com for available spaced and pricing)
Dublin Business Innovation Centre – Business Planning, Finance, Office Space
Start Up – Established by Shannon Development to provide a comprehensive information and referral service for Start-ups and established Small-Medium Enterprises within the Shannon Region.
Citizens Information – An excellent reference for starting or expanding a business in Ireland. From legal information to funding.
Entreperneurs & Entrepreneurship – Starting and running your own business
Microsoft BizSpark BizSpark is a global program designed to accelerate the success of early stage Startups
The Enterprise Bus – Operated by the County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) in a joint venture with the Bank of Ireland, the Enterprise Bus, attend a variety of venues and locations throughout the country promoting the concept of enterprise as a viable career choice and offering advice and information on the range of financial and management capability services offered by the CEBs to first time and developing small businesses.
Small Business Can - Open to all, for the benefit of all, small businesses and entrepreneurs are invited to join smallbusinesscan to create and share the business knowledge, the insights, the experience and the contact networks needed to generate new growth for their own businesses and spark a new beginning.
Dublin City Enterprise Board directory- Directory launced by Dublin City Enterprise Board; A guide to starting your own business in Dublin
Creative Action: The purpose of the forum is to empower people to create new employment opportunities, and to create a better Ireland for everybody. Creative action is a voluntary non political organisation comprising of people from all walks of life. Creative action believes in enabling people to recognize the wealth of talent and expertise they already have to share.
Emerge Skillnet – Emerge Skillnet – The Only Ethnic Business Training Network in Ireland. The aim of the Emerge Skillnet is ‘the business integration and growth for ethnic entrepreneurs and their businesses in a multi-cultural Ireland’. Some of the courses that are on offer at up to 80% subsidized funding.
Dublin City Council Business Support Unit – The Business Support Unit which is an is an initiative of the Economic Development Department will provide information on, and co-ordinate access to the range of Dublin City Council services that are required for setting up or growing a business.
Health and Safety Aurthority – The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) – Working to create a National Culture of Excellence in Workplace Safety, Health and Welfare for Ireland.
Courses/Training in Starting Your Own Business:
Nightcourses.ie – Courses in Starting your own business
FÁS- Courses in Business Appraisal & Start Up
DCEB – Dublin City Enterprise Board Course in Starting Your Own Business, in National College of Ireland, IFSC
Ballsbridge College of Further Education – Start your own business (Fetac Cert in Business Studies)
Skillsnet – the enterprise-led support body that enhances the skills of people in employment to support competitiveness and employability.
Create Ireland - Business Training Programme, training and mentoring in key areas of business development
Scaling Up:
Leadership 4 Growth (Enterprise Ireland) – A programme specifically designed for CEOs of companies who have the ambition and potential to achieve significant scale in their chosen markets.
Open Up – The Openup website is designed to help Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) managers understand and use IT and eBusiness to improve competitiveness and grow sales.
(Also the site of eBusiness Live – e-business newsletter from Enterprise Ireland)
Acumen Intertrade Ireland- Acumen helps SMEs to grow their businesses by targeting Northern Irish markets. The programme offers four support options – Consultancy Support; Sales Salary Support; Prospector Support; Sales Graduate programme. Typically Acumen will fund up to 50% of costs involved.
Go-2-Tender- This programme aims to give SME’s the confidence, knowledge and skills to tender successfully for public sector contracts particularly on a cross-border basis.
Plato Ireland – Plato Ireland is a confidential business support forum for owner managers of SMEs. Through a unique partnership with large “parent” companies and enterprise development agencies, Plato provides SMEs with facilitated group learning, specialist expertise and advice, networking opportunities, business development training, and cross border activities.
Networking/ Mentoring:
Hi-Start programme – Applications invited ‘Hi-Start‘ is a management development programme for High Potential Micro-Enterprises – both start-up and early phase growth businesses. To book your place or for more information see
Fingal
or
Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown
Enterprise Builder Mentoring – Service Free mentoring scheme for Bank of Ireland customers
Business Networking Ireland – BNI provides a structured, supportive, business environment in which local business people can get together to network, learn valuable new marketing skills and develop the strong personal relationships that lead to trust and the consequent generation of significant business for each other.
Brite Network (DCEB – Dublin region) – In Dublin City there are several networks to choose from; LINK!, Dublin City Enterprise Network for Women, PLATO Dublin. LINK! and the Dublin City Enterprise Network for Women are run by Dublin City Enterprise Board. PLATO and BRITE are joint initiatives between the four Dublin City and County Enterprise Boards.
Chambers Ireland – Chambers Ireland is the country’s largest business organisation, with 60 member chambers representing over 13,000 businesses throughout the island of Ireland. It is a company limited by guarantee, owned by its member chambers, which pay an annual membership subscription fee.
Small Firms Association – The national organisation exclusively representing the needs of small enterprises (i.e. those employing less than 50 employees) in Ireland.
Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Association – Independent organisation for the Irish small & medium business sector, with in excess of 8,500 members nationwide. ISME offers a comprehensive range of Advisory Services and Publication, Independent Lobbying and Representation, Cost Saving Schemes, Training and Development Programmes, and Regional Networking Events.
MicroTrade – The MicroTrade Programme aims to promote cross-border trade and business co-operation specifically within the micro-enterprise sector. The programme came about as a result of a three-way partnership between InterTradeIreland, the County & City Enterprise Boards (Republic of Ireland ) and Enterprise Northern Ireland, the umbrella body of the 32 Local Enterprise Agencies in NI.
Irish Business Women – A forum for Irish women in business
Management Development (Enterprise Ireland) – Courses, programmes, workshops focussed on the development of management team
Institute of Directors in Ireland - The representative body for senior, strategic business professionals in Ireland. Members include chief executives, chairpersons, board members, senior executives and partners of large national and international entities in Ireland.
Incubation Space
The Digital Hub – The Digital Hub has a range of city centre offices and facilities suitable for early stage, fast growth, and established companies in the digital media industry. State of the art broadband connectivity, on campus network operations and hosting facilities are available. There are also a wide range of formal, informal meeting and conference rooms, and a dedicated space for product launches, receptions and exhibitions available.
LINC Blanchardstown – Linking academia and industry through support for start-up businesses, applied research, & industry training programs.
Ballymun Enterprise Centre incubation space for start-up sole-traders, companies and community development organisations to aid activities in the first years of development.
DCU Invent – 2,800 square metres of purpose built incubation space for technology based start-up companies, as well as offering a range of early stage and developmental business support services to our client companies.
Docklands Innovation Park – Enterprise development programmes, incubation space and facilities, business counselling, funding and access to R&D
Guinness Enterprise Centre – provide incubator space ranging from 10m² to 160m² to new and established small businesses, primarily in software services oriented businesses, light hi-tech prototype engineering and international/technological traded services, E-commerce, multi-media, internet and mobile software development.
Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus – Office space, business support and R&D
Nova UCD – the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin.
Synergy Centre, Tallaght IT – innovation centre of South Dublin County, providing office space and business supports to early-stage enterprises.
The Cube (IADT) – IADT incubation space
Nova UCD - Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre UCD
Hothouse programme – (Eastwall Business Park & DIT) – Incubator for Irish Start-Ups
BIC – Business Incubation Centres: Dublin, South East Ireland, Cork, Northern Ireland, West of Ireland
IQ360 – is a Southern Regional College programme engaging with Dundalk Institute of Technology to showcase the entrepreneurial support services available at Greenshoots Incubation and Innovation Centre in Newry and at the Regional Development Centre in Dundalk. Greenshoots is a joint initiative of the Southern Regional College and the University of Ulster.
RUA – Incubation space for arts organisations and individuals.
Office Space:
The Digital Hub – The Digital Hub has a range of city centre offices and facilities suitable for early stage, fast growth, and established companies in the digital media industry. State of the art broadband connectivity, on campus network operations and hosting facilities are available. There are also a wide range of formal, informal meeting and conference rooms, and a dedicated space for product launches, receptions and exhibitions available.
Webworks (Galway) – A technology driven workspace to support innovation, creativity, networking & collaboration.
Webworks (Cork) – Business Innovation centre for enterprises engaged in internationally traded services.
Hotdesking:
NomaDesk – Resource dedicated to HotDesking in Ireland
Virtual Office:
The Digital Hub – The Digital Hub has a range of city centre offices and facilities suitable for early stage, fast growth, and established companies in the digital media industry. State of the art broadband connectivity, on campus network operations and hosting facilities are available. There are also a wide range of formal, informal meeting and conference rooms, and a dedicated space for product launches, receptions and exhibitions available.
