Cauwill Win Seedcorn 'Emerging' Award
Congratulations to LEAP 2009 participants Ian Rice and Ronan Skehill on Cauwill Technologies being crowned Best Emerging Company at the final of InterTradeIreland’s all-island Seedcorn Business Competition, held last night in Dublin.
Further good news for LEAP as CoClarity scooped €10,000 as winner of the Best University Spin/ Enterprise Platform Programme Company Award. Congrats to Ger and his team.
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LEAP 2009/10 - participants looking End of Year Business Plan Competition
LEAP 2009 is a year long milestone driven enterprise and management development programme hosted by the Enterprise Acceleration Centre @ Limerick Institute of Technology that assists men and women entrepreneurs to establish their businesses. LEAP 2009 commenced in late May with sixteen participant companies. At the end of the 12 months each business can enter our End of Year Business Plan Compettion. In the meantime there are some final days of group training and most importantly one to one sesions with external experts on Sales, Finance and Business Plans to assist in the preparation of investor ready business plans.
Check out this website to find out about:
- The companies who are crrently particpating on LEAP 2009.
- The companies who participated on the LEAP 2007 and LEAP 2008 programme
- The training provided by the programme and other supports provided by programme management in collaboration with Enterprise Ireland and other organisations.
Make the LEAP in 2010
Are you someone who has an innovative idea for a product, technology or service with exciting growth aspirations? Have you a track record in business or management? Are you prepared to make the LEAP and spend twelve months on a dedicated programme to translate your idea into a viable business concept and then develop an investor ready business plan and build a sustainable, profitable business? Send in your applicaton now!
You generally cannot and should not tell an entrepreneur what to do.
You can offer him (her) your wisdom, knowledge and options, but they then have to make their own decisions – and live with the consequences.
Source: Enabling Entrepreneurs, John Thompson 2006



