Rubicon programme for professionals
The Rubicon Centre in Cork is running a programme for professionals who want to start a business.
 | START-UP KITAll you need to know to start a business from the ground up, from concept to realisation. |
 | MENTORSMark Kellett – The 'Seven-S' frameworkMark Kellett, CEO of Magnet Networks, is an advocate of the so-called ‘Seven-S’ framework as an aid to anyone at the business plan stage of setting up. Seven-S is a model for managing an organisation based on the following factors: strategy, structure, systems, shared values, skills, staff and style. |
ENTREPRENEURS
Rita Shah, Shabra Plastics and Packaging
Since coming to Ireland in the Eighties, joint managing director and co-founder of Shabra Plastics and Packaging Rita Shah has successfully diversified the company to be a leader in the recycling and manufacturing of plastics products.
PROFILED START-UPS
Tom Kearney, Spice O'Life
Corkman Tom Kearney travelled the exotic historical spice routes of the East before coming home and setting up his own spice company, Spice O'Life, in Dunmanway.
RESOURCE CENTRE
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