Business Book Club

The new Synergy Business Book Club will meet for the first time on Thursday, 25th of June from 1-2pm in The Glasshouse. The first book under discussion will be "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman (2006). The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity. The book is all about globalisation, outsourcing, insourcing, offshoring, uploading, workflow, etc with lots of examples of companies such as Dell, Wal-Mart, UPS, Infosys, Microsoft and AOL. Apparently, Ireland even gets a couple of pages. Haven't read it yet myself but looking forward to it. There'll be a couple of copies available in the Synergy library(please try to turn them around as quickly as you can) and we're hoping to get some stocked in the ITT library too - stay posted for more info. Thanks to Seamus for kicking this off!

Student Entrepreneurs Carry On Regardless

Unfortunately, none of the Student Synergy Awards winners made it through to the finals of the Enterprise Ireland Student Awards which will take place in Coleraine on the 10th June. Undaunted, our winners are working away on their businesses - we just got a mail from Niall of All Mountain Experience (http://www.allmountainexperience.com/) in Italy - they've had 20 clients through their Lake Garda camp in the last three weeks. We're looking forward to the Carzii marketing campaign this summer which Simon assures us will kick off post-exams (see http://www.carzii.ie/). Also have high hopes for the Quicknets and Liquistal teams. Well done to all and thanks to South Dublin County Enterprise Board for their sponsorship.

Recuiting for Autumn Programmes

Synergy Centre is currently recruiting for its Autumn 2009 Enterprise Development Programmes. There are two programmes running this Autumn -aimed at would-be entrepreneurs who are at slightly different stages of their business development.

The Enterprise Launch Programme runs over 6 wks, part-time, Fridays (6.30 – 9.30) and Saturdays (10 – 1). The cost is €300, and the programme starts 4th Sept, deadline for applications is August 21st. This programme is aimed at those who have a concept but have not fully investigated its viability at this point. This programme is designed and timed to feed into the Enterprise Platform Programme:

The Synergy Enterprise Platform Programme (M50 Programme), a 1 year, full-time, programme starts 2nd November, deadline for applications is 25th September. This programme takes the viable concept through to either trading or investment ready status.

For more info on eitehr programme visit http://www.synergycentre.ie/ or www.m50-enterprise.ie.

Synergy Centre Starts Blogging

Hi folks,
there's so much going on here in Synergy and sometimes we just don't get to tell everyone about it so we decided to stop making excuses and start blogging! We'll give you updates on events that take place in the centre, dates and deadlines for programmes that we are running and recruiting for, and news on how our client companies are getting along. Stay tuned!
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