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Startup Weekend Limerick is back for its seventh year running

Pictured at the first birthday celebration of Bank of Ireland Workbench Limerick are staff celebrating their first birthday. The Startup Weekend Limerick will be taking place there this weekend. Photo: Oisin McHugh/ True Media.

Startup Weekend Limerick is back for its seventh year running

Startup Weekend Limerick is back for its seventh year in Limerick and will be taking place at the Bank of Ireland Workbench on 125 O’Connell Street.

The 54-hour event taking place from Friday, November 3 at 6.30pm to Sunday, November 5 until 9 pm will provide startup entrepreneurs with the chance to experience the highs, lows, fun and pressures that make up life at a startup.


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Startup Weekend Limerick

Since opening 12 months ago the BOI Workbench has welcomed more than 4,000 visitors, hosted more than 200 events, and supported more than 35 startup enterprises. This weekend they are welcoming Startup Weekend Limerick and all its attendees to its facilities. Picture: Oisin McHugh /True Media.

The event which is sponsored by Bank of Ireland and partnered globally with Google, will show budding entrepreneurs how to create a real company, and give them the chance to meet the very best mentors, investors, co-founders, and sponsors who are ready to help them get started.

You will get the chance to pitch your business idea on Friday night and the best ideas will be put into action. Teams will come out with several developed companies or projects. Finally, the weekend culminates with demonstrations in front of an audience of judges and potential investors.

The start-up judges for this weekend’s events include LIT president Dr. Vincent Cunnane, Dr. Philip O’Regan, the Dean of the Kemmy Business School, Dr. Maeve Liston, director of enterprise and community engagement, Mary Immaculate College and Deirdre Twomey, the branch manager of Bank of Ireland in the heart of Limerick.

Attendees of the Startup Weekend Limerick will be in for a treat with mentoring by all-stars from the travel and startup communities, a free trial of Google Could Platform, six months Appear.in premium account worth €60 plus, a free .co domain worth €30 plus, tasty meals all weekend and so much more.

To find out more about the Startup Weekend Limerick click here 

To read our story on last years Startup Weekend Limerick click here 

 

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