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Dublin City Enterprise Board:
Dublin City Enterprise Board is an enterprise support agency. We support Entrepreneurs and Owner Managers with small businesses based in Dublin city. We offer a wide range of training from Business Idea, Start Your Own Business to Management Development, Marketing, Sales and Finance. The training is aimed at provided practical skills, tools, planning templates to be implemented in small businesses. We also have 2 business networks.

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Dublin City Enterprise Board is funded through the Department of Enterprise and EU funding.

Link! Start Up Business Network:

LINK! is the new business network created by Dublin City Enterprise Board for start ups and growing businesses up to two years old. LINK! focuses on the unique strategic, operational and developmental challenges which start-ups encounter. The network gives you access to expert advice, customised training and structured networking. Support and encouragement are appropriately pitched and timed. LINK! also offers you a safe and discrete environment where less-experienced owner/managers can confront their business challenges.

Dublin City Enterprise Network for Women:

Photo of Business Development Training & Support in Dublin, IrelandThe Enterprise Network for Women, a Dublin City Enterprise Board initiative, is ideal for women already in business or considering starting up. Being an entrepreneur can be a lonely business and the network provides opportunities to share experiences, learn from others and network.

“The Network is a great idea for people in business to discuss with other small business owners common issues and allow us to see what other people are doing. The Network has assisted me personally to be excited about my business again and remind me of the reasons why we went in to business to begin with,” commented one network member, Cora Barnes of 3Q Catering.

The Dublin City Enterprise Network for Women is run by the Dublin City Enterprise Board to promote and support female entrepreneurs.

Dublin City Enterprise Board supports enterprise in the following areas of Dublin:

We cater for potential Entrepreneurs and Business Owner Managers from Ballsbridge, Ballyfermot, Ballymun, Cabra, Chapelizod, Clontarf, Crumlin, Dolphins Barn, Donnbrook, Drimnagh, Drumcondra, East Wall, Finglas, Glasnevin, Harold's Cross, Inchicore, Irishtown, Islandbridge, Killester, Kilmainham, Marino, Merrion, Phibsborough, Raheny, Rathmines, Ranelagh, Rathgar, Ringsend, Sandymount, Terrenure, Whitehall, Dollymount, Dublin 1, Dublin 2, Dublin 3, Dublin 4, Dublin 5, Dublin 6, Dublin 7, Dublin 8, Dublin 9, Dublin 10, Dublin 11, Dublin 12.

Business Start-up and Business Development courses include:

- Business Ideas Generation - for start ups (1 day)
- Product/Services Innovation for Start-ups/ Entrepreneurs - developing new products/services into a business (1 day)
- Start Your Own Business - 1 evening per week (8 weeks) or Saturdays (6 weeks)
- Marketing & Maximising Your Sales - 1 evening per week (4 weeks)
- Management Development - 1 evening per week (6 weeks)
- Having a Small Business Website- Half day (3 weeks)
- Training Modules (1/2 day workshops) on a range of topics for Owner Managers

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