Coming soon: GreenHouse (start-up) radio!

As a medium to promote start-ups and an entrepreneurial culture I have decided that the GreenHouse needs it’s own radio-station. We will therefore start doing live  Internet based broadcasts. The idea is to do this once a week initially. The broadcast will be streamed live via the website and will also be made available via podcast.

For this I am looking for start-up companies who are interested in getting 30 minutes to talk about their product, service or company.

If you are interested please email me.

The Greenhouse announces it’s board of advisors!

Business heavyweights get behind The Greenhouse Limerick incubator.

The Limerick Greenhouse start-up incubator celebrates as business luminaries join the advisory board. The Greenhouse Incubator was developed in Limerick by internet entrepreneur Evert Bopp, in January of 2009, in response to a need for an incubator with a different, more businesslike approach.

“We are delighted to add the three new advisors to the board of Greenhouse Limerick,” said Bopp on the announcement.

“The three new advisors are Pat Phelan, the founder and CEO of Cubic Telecom, Kevin Thompstone, former CEO of Shannon Development, who spent 13 years at the organisation before entering the private sector as a consultant and Richard O ‘ Donnell, co-founder of Software Architects International & Redeo.com,” Bopp announced today April 21^st.

“The vast expertise of these three business luminaries will be a great advantage to start-up companies using the Greenhouse Incubator in order to grow and expand their businesses. The experience of the three advisors includes working at SME, mid-size and large companies in a whole gambit of arenas. They bring with them a thorough knowledge of both the private and public sector” added Bopp.

Media and business interest in the Greenhouse Limerick incubator continues to grow as the organisation starts to work in the Limerick area. Evert Bopp, Greenhouse Limerick founder has been in demand across the country to try and install similar incubators in other recession hit towns and cities across Ireland.

“We started because a lot of the existing enterprise incubators were either state run or owned by Institutes of Technology. These academic or bureaucratic environments are by their nature not conducive for creativity, entrepreneurship and decisiveness,” Bopp added.

“Greenhouse Limerick is completely different. It is independently funded, which allows for more flexibility. Irish start-ups now have to go through an application process during which they are judged on their business idea & management team in order to determine their chances of success. If the board of management decides that the start-up has a more than average chance of success they will be offered a place in a 6-month incubation cycle. During this incubation cycle the start-up will not only receive office space and facilities, they will also be able to avail of a wide range of in-house professional services (legal, accounting, mentoring etc.). We will foot the bill on their developments costs. In exchange we take a small equity stake in each start-up.” added Bopp.

The Greenhouse incubator in Limerick will offer top of the range office facilities (fully furnished offices), excellent IT services & support, meeting room(s), canteen facilities (real coffee!), web hosting & development services, 24-hour access, postage & courier pick-up and delivery, central reception services and more.

At the moment the Greenhouse is looking for key sponsors and investors to provide those services that are required to fit out the facilities. There are lucrative benefits available to those sponsor companies.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you are interested in sponsoring, investing or applying for a place at the Greenhouse Incubator in Limerick.

Contact: if you are interested in finding out more or if you would like to become involved in the GreenHouse incubator please contact Mr. Evert Bopp on +353 (0)86 8645099 or by email on info@greenhouselimerick.com

For media enquiries or interviews please contact Michelle Daly, pr@greenhouselimerick.com +353 (0)86 8675210Board of advisors.

Full bio’s can be found here

Full press release here.

Update

Lots & lots has happened over the last month and the incubator is taking it’s final shape.

• Building & decorating is starting shortly
• The GreenHouse has it’s own Linkedin & Facebook groups.
• The GreenHouse was recently covered in The Sunday Independent, Limerick Leader and on RTE 1“The Business” radio show.
• The GreenHouse website is getting a re-design thanks to David Quaid of Primary Position.
• Applications through the website will open on April 24th.
• You can also follow the GreenHouse on Twitter.
• Plans are underway for GreenHouse incubators in Dublin, Cork & Glasgow. If you want to get involved please feel free to contact me.