How Should a Small Business Owner Develop a Digital Mindset?

You don’t have to go to Harvard to develop your Digital Mindset – try StartUp Ballymun instead by Billy Linehan

StartUp Ballymun is back for its ninth edition, the premier StartUp event north of Dublin’s O’Connell Street. And with a focus on sharing the benefits of adapting digital technologies across your business, improving your Digital Mindset.

“We are delighted to be back”, says Dublin City Council’s Liam Barry. “It’s great to host an in-person event promoting enterprise in Ballymun and north Dublin. Thanks to all the entrepreneurs, local businesses and partners for making it happen. A special shout out to students from local school, Trinity Comprehensive.”

• Find out more & book a ticket for the event HERE
• 4.30 – 8pm 26 May, Civic Centre, Ballymun, Dublin

Not just another startup event, but a Digital Mindset

Never aimed at the traditional StartUp market, it follows another seam. Central to our proposition is for business owners to describe their journeys, allied to a theme for the event. The topic for this event is Go Digital, asking the question how small businesses can access a range of digital technologies that are now available.

Which technology?

Which technology to harness, and how can the technology investment be funded, are relevant questions for business support agencies and digitalisation experts. Choosing the optimum technology depends on what competitors are using, the influence of vendors and what makes sense to the business.

LEO funding

A new initiative ‘Digital Start’ is launched by Ireland’s network of local enterprise offices shortly. It is unclear what level of funding is available for financing business automation, UX design, or utilising business analytics. Sectoral support appears limited?

Core of our event

The core of the event is the Panel of Entrepreneurs and ‘this time we have struck gold’ comments Liam.

Deirdre Monks is cofounder of Full Circle Data a creative data agency, and a finalist in this year’s Analytics Institute of Ireland’s Analytics & AI Awards.

Based in the LINC TUD Blanchardstown Ciaran Brennan of LiveCosts.com has won awards from LEO Fingal and Fingal Chamber. The company is also an Enterprise Ireland HPSU (High Potential Start Up) client. He pins the success of LiveCosts down to one key factor, “knowledge of our customer”.

Rohit Thakral of Target Integration Ltd. describes himself as an Entrepreneur and Business Automation Consultant. He has run Target Integration since 2008 and has been successful in converting it to a mid-size CRM spread in 4 countries. Rohit has experience in managing large CRM and ERP Implementation projects and Software Development projects.

Ronan O’Neill of Digigrow co-founded and ran a Digital marketing agency, and a web development House. Currently he is COO at Money Jar, an Irish Fintech company that offers a digital current account

Fredericka Sheppard of Voltedge HR celebrates the tenth anniversary of the business this year. The well-known HR consultancy she co-founded with Joyce Rigby-Jones is currently undergoing a digital transformation.

What a panel of business owners to meet on 26 May at StartUp Ballymun
?Deirdre Monks https://t.co/5muWoDlPzW
?Ciaran Brennan @livecosts
?Rohit Thakral @TargetInt
?Ronan O'Neill @digigrow_ie & @MoneyJar_
?Fredericka Sheppard @VoltedgeHR
Book https://t.co/1vfwpKyz5S pic.twitter.com/4KEorpIdmz

— StartUpBallymun ? (@StartUpBallymun) May 20, 2022

Partners, agencies and business networks

Practical information is on offer on training and grants from our partners  LEO DublinCity,  Ballymun4business, Dublin North West Area Partnership, Innovate Communities, and the national registry for .ie domain names and a fabulous resource for all things internet in Ireland .IE . The National Centre for the Circular Economy in Ireland, the Rediscovery Centre is on hand. Latest addition is New Frontiers, the national entrepreneurial programme from Enterprise Ireland for ambitious early-stage entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas.

New role, Digital Advisers

As well as speakers on our panel with digital expertise, three Digital Advisers are on hand to offer advice to entrepreneurs on developing a Digital Mindset. Knowledge and expertise is shared by Carol Cousins of Carol Cousins Marketing, Rob Mullen of Category First Services, and Technology & OD consultant Alp Türkmen.

StartUp Ballymun is sponsored by Dublin City Council.

Project team is Billy Linehan of Celtar Business Advisers & Liam Barry of Dublin City Council

StartUp Ballymun has featured previously in Irish Tech News. This is the third event supporting the take-up of digital technology. We are grateful to Irish Tech News for the continued support.