Another mashup from the Luis Poveda. This time Dizzee gets thown in the middle of the Black Eyed Peas for a very tidy mix.
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Flora Women’s Mini Marathon
Team Flora’ members Sinead Desmond and Ruth Scottannounce FINAL CALL for Flora Women’s Mini Marathon registrations
The Star 20/04/2011
‘Team Flora’ members Sinead Desmond and Ruth Scott have gathered today to make a FINAL CALL for participants in the upcoming Flora Women’s Mini Marathon.
With almost 40,000 registered participants’ to-date, the online registrations will close this week, earlier than previously anticipated and so this is your final chance to register to be part of the largest women’s event of its kind in the world!
The Flora Women’s Mini Marathon will take place in Dublin city on Bank Holiday Monday, June 6th 2011.
Participants can find out more at the “Flora Women’s Mini Marathon” Facebook Page or on the website http://www.florawomensminimarathon.ie <http://www.florawomensminimarathon.ie/>
Enter the dragons
Irish Independent Tuesday 19th April
M50 Enterprise Platform Programme ‘Invest’ in their 2010 Participants!
Monday 18th April 2011, The LINC (Learning and Innovation Centre), ITB (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown). As the 2010 cohort of the M50 Enterprise Platform Programme 2010 draws to a close, the LINC offered the participants a golden opportunity, to pitch their businesses to a panel of experienced businesses investors.
Having spent a year at the LINC honing their business skills and progressing with their business plans, whilst receiving invaluable mentoring and training from The LINC, some of Ireland’s best emerging start-up companies are now ready to enter the dragons den world of pitching for investment. The panel of investors at the LINC today included;
· Derek Crawley, NCB Ventures
· Justin Baily, Horwath Bastow Charleton
· Martin Scully, Oyster Capital Partners
· Liz Fleming, Halo Business Angel Network Damian Scattergood from STAR Ts.
Amongst the companies pitching were Safefood 360, a cutting edge food safety compliance software company, who launched in April. Speaking after his pitch, George Howlett, Chief Operations Officer, Safefood 360 said of the opportunity “It was great to have the opportunity to present Safefood 360 to a panel of experienced and insightful investors. Their interest was encouraging and their feedback valued, particularly as we are now seeing to raise second round funding.”
The M50 Enterprise Platform Programme (M50 EPP) is a one year practically focussed enterprise support programme aimed at entrepreneurs who are in the early stages of starting up their own high potential, knowledge intensive businesses. There are twelve places in total being filled this year with the names of the successful companies being announced in the coming weeks.
Martin Scully, Oyster Capital Partners, speaking about what VC’s are looking for in a pitch: “Tell us the business problem you are solving and how your solution will address it, how much you think the customer will pay and how you propose to target the market. What is most appealing is a disruptive technology which can be fully developed on an ongoing basis. We want to contribute to the roll-out of a global sales organisation which typically means heading straight to the US market.”
The M50 EPP is about to launch it’s 2011 in late April and were inundated with applications. “The programme at the LINC is in high demand,” said Claire Mac Namee, Enterprise Manager “Companies that come on our programme have the benefit of top class mentors in all areas of new business development which really helps them accelerate their businesses forward at a rapid pace. They also benefit from basing their companies at the LINC and availing of all of the professional facilities that we have in place. The difficult job we had this year of shortlisting applications is testament to the wonderful creativity and innovation capabilities of the business people in Ireland at the moment. We are very excited about working with the twelve companies chosen and look forward to revealing their identity in the coming weeks.”
The LINC
The LINC (Learning and Innovation Centre) is ITB’s tangible link between the Institute and the Business Community making accessible the skills and expertise of the Institute to the buisness community.
Spanning over 2,000 square metres, the newly refurbished LINC offers a wealth of possibilities to entrepreneurs. Facilities include a boardroom, meeting room, computer labs, entrepreneurship lab, ideas lab, research room, onsite catering and free parking. Tenants also have access to support and mentoring through the “Create, Learn, Grow”
business incubation programme.
http://www.thelinc.com <http://www.thelinc.com>
ESB ELECTRIC IRELAND FEIS CEOIL
YOUNG CLASSICAL MUSICIANS COMPETE IN THE ESB ELECTRIC IRELAND FEIS CEOIL
Pictured at the ESB Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil are aspiring musicians as they prepare to compete at Ireland’s biggest classical music festival.
The ESB Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil is currently taking place in the RDS until 15th April. With a recession-proof day ticket costing just €5, anyone and everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy a relaxing few hours of classical music over the two weeks.
Some of the most outstanding competitors from the 2011 ESB Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil will be showcased at a special Gala Concert in the Dublin Convention Centre on April 16th 2011. The concert will feature The Celtic Tenors, and will be attended by the Patron of Feis Ceoil Association, President of Ireland, Mary McAleese.
Tickets for the Gala Concert are available from www.tickets.ie
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