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EI has a role in scaling Internet Businesses. Scaling up is difference between ebusiness and Internet business - Colm Lyons

I wouldn’t mind them calling me to get my impression on how they can help Internet Businesses - 7 past Create participants need support in scaling up and 2 of them got support…

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I’m getting phone enquiries for the programme training outline.

Here’s an example of a mixed topic training session on June 4th:

Lunch – 12.30pm: 1.30pm
IPR: 1.30pm – 4pm
iPhone Development: 4pm – 4.45pm
Usability & Cyber-psychology: 5pm-6pm
IADT Annual Exhibition: 6.30pm

The structure of the day is for participants to have overviews and then request personal mentoring sessions.

I have two places on the day for potential applicants who haven’t made their mind if they want to apply. Contact me on frederic dot herrera at iadt dot ie if you want to attend. 

Fred

• Access to informal network of 70 trainers/mentors/past participants.
• Trainers and mentors are briefed by me so no time is waisted.
• Step and facilitation to EI cord grant - 50% of previous accounted salary up to 30K/year + 6K of marketing spend. I manage the paperwork.
• Access to desk space free of charge in the Digital Hub & IADT’s Media Cube
• Training & Mentoring are personalised to suit digital media companies
• Training & Mentoring are personalised for respective stage of development of participant
• 13 generic business topics + 8 specialised digital media topics
• It’s part-time programme so your daily business operations are given priority
• Great companies have been started in downturns
• You need your business to be reviewed continuously in one the following 3 areas: business, tech, and creative processes
• If you’ve kept reading this list, that means you’re interested so contact me on frederic dot herrera at iadt dot ie

Yeah! My first post thanks to Darran’s (of poly) - install of a blogging system Create participants.

So, this blog is to exchange opinions about the ups & downs of starting digital media businesses in Ireland. I hope that past and current Create participants will join in with their own blogs, linked in profiles, tweets, and other online social media pointers. Trainers and mentors as well. There’s probably more than 40 of us in total.

I should have supported this before since Create has been in business since mid 2004 and a lot of good training and mentoring material of the past years has been informed by blogs. It’s just that I didn’t have the guts to do it and the focus to assign time to blogging. I tried a few times but lost steam.

So, I find myself in the second month of recruitment for the Create Enterprise Platform Programme (EPP) for digital media companies.

Surely, entrepreneurial individuals won’t stay on the dole or in a declining job situation.

They’ll make the jump into the most personalised training programme in the country. It’s free and they can meet like-minded individuals developing and selling services and products.

Anyway, drop me a mail at frederic dot herrera at iadt dot ie if you want to have a chat about the programme.

That first post wasn’t too bad after all. I might schedule the next one now. I have a list of things to blog about.

Thanks for dropping in and I hope I’m worthy of your rss subscritions.