Killarney entrepreneur wins best business at IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme
Apr 28, 2021 13:04
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Ignite Graduate Patrick O’Regan from Reachthetop a platform to streamline the NCAA recruitment process. They are part of the most recent group of graduates from the IGNITE programme which just held its Awards and Showcase for Spring 2021. IGNITE is an international award-winning start-up incubation programme at University College Cork, supporting recent graduate entrepreneurs to turn good ideas into great businesses.
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A start-up company established by a Killarney entrepreneur has been announced as the best business winner of this year’s IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme.
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Bootstrapped
Teahan has bootstrapped his start-up with initial costs contained at around â¬10,000 and he is now looking for funding to support further R&D and business development. He has yet to decide where the product will be made, as manufacturing costs here are too high, but he wants to keep production within Europe.
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