Tag Archives | Small and medium enterprises

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BUILTINCORK Seeks Feedback on Future Events

BUILTINCORK, the startup network for the southern city, has put out a call to its members, friends, and anyone in the wide community of startups and those who follow them, to let them know what kind of events they’d like to see on the programme in the months ahead. BUILTINCORK was founded in 2015 by a bunch of people […]

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CurrencyFair offers Free International Transfers to Irish Businesses

  CurrencyFair has announced that they will give a year’s worth of international money transfers without fees, to the first 500 Irish businesses to sign up with them from today, April 28. The campaign aims to help Irish businesses to grow their exports in international markets and challenge financial institutions’ current high currency rates, highlighting that many Irish businesses are […]

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Valentine’s is Business as Usual for SME Spouses

With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, The Blacknight SME Awards carried out a survey this week of the spouses and partners of SME owners. The results confirm that entrepreneurship can be challenging for couples, while family support is seen as an essential resources for SMEs. “If the people at home don’t believe in the project, they may as well call it […]

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The Blood and Sweat of Irish People [Audio]

Michele goes on something of a patriotic rant on this week’s podcast – well it is the centenary of the 1916 Rising. “Forget about these bloody multinationals who are set up over here and have absolutely no loyalty or ties to the country. What about the Irish companies built on the blood and sweat of Irish […]

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Ireland Achieves €127 Million in EU Research Funding

The Minister for Skills Research and Innovation, Damien English TD, today has congratulated Ireland’s researchers and companies on their success in the first year of Horizon 2020, the current EU programme funding research and innovation. Irish projects won €127m in funding, exceeding the Action Plan for Jobs national target for 2014 by 27%. The minister was speaking at a Horizon […]

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Net Visionary Award Nominations Open

The Irish Internet Association‘s annual Net Visionary awards are now accepting nominations. This year’s categories are: Best Website – joyous to look at and splendid to use Best Web Development Agency Best Cloud Services for SMEs Best Mobile Application – indispensable to its users Best International Scaling Irish Business Best Start-Up – the one to […]

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Accepting Payments Online is Easier than Ever – Realex Payments [Video]

Ireland’s SMEs have lagged behind internationally for the ability to accept payments online, but they are catching up fast, says Paul Dunne of Realex Payments. He was speaking at a free seminar for SMEs organised by Mulley Communications, in conjunction with the recent Blacknight SME Awards. Setting up an account with Realex Payments is as simple […]

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Blacknight SME Awards: Mr Crumb [Video]

Mr Crumb won the B2B SME Growth Award at The Blacknight SME Awards. It’s a family business which began supplying breadcrumbs and then progressed into stuffing and other value-added products. Growth has been driven by exports and now they employ up to 120 people in their home village of Finea, Co Westmeath. Technology.ie – like the SME Awards […]

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