Dragon pitch for budding entrepreneurs
Galway’s budding entrepreneurs are being encouraged to pitch their ideas to a ‘Dragon’ who visits the city later this month.
From 25-27 April, Galway Business School in Salthill will be hosting the Startup Weekend, an event aimed at getting the most out of entrepreneurs in the space of 54 hours and encouraging their own start-ups.
This event is a global grassroots movement of up-and-coming entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding start-ups and launching successful ventures. It is currently one of the largest communities of entrepreneurs with over 1,800 past events in 120 countries around the world as of 2014.
Entrepreneur, and one of the Dragons on RTÉ’s ‘Dragons' Den’, Barry O’Sullivan will be among a number of local entrepreneurial leaders sharing their expertise and knowledge of start-ups and small businesses. Having previously led some large divisions for Cisco, last month O’Sullivan launched tech start-up Altocloud as co-founder and CEO.
The Startup Weekend is open to Ireland’s potential start-ups and will provide you the opportunity to work in teams to organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) before developing into a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation.
The weekend culminates with presentations in front of the mentors and judging panel with an opportunity for critical feedback. In addition to this invaluable hands-on experience, the winning idea will also receive a prize. The marathon weekend will include speakers and judges of the start-ups ideas from a variety of different Irish backgrounds including John Breslin, internet entrepreneur and founder of boards.ie and Technology Voice, Paul Gilson, a medical device entrepreneur and co-founder and CSO of Galway-based Novate Medical; and Barry O’Sullivan.
If you are interested in the Startup Weekend, you can register on Eventbrite.ie or for further information visit http://galway.startupweekend.org/