The mission of the Galway City Innovation District (“GCID”) is to create high-value sustainable tech jobs in Galway. It is ubiquitous in all that we do here at the PorterShed. Over the past few weeks, we have seen lots of media [...]

Is your business ‘Investment Ready? Start Up So, you have a great idea for a business. It’s going to be global! Best idea ever! Only problem is you need some cash to get it up and running. Who to ask? Usually the first stop is family and [...]

Minister Humphreys announces over €40m for 26 Projects to drive job creation in the regions Projects approved following the third call of the Regional Enterprise Development Fund. The announcement comes with the news that we now have the highest [...]

Galway and the West of Ireland have become a hotbed for entrepreneurial activity in recent years. In fact, you may not know it but the word “entrepreneur” was coined by an Irishman from the Wild Atlantic Way. Richard Cantillon, born in the [...]

There’s a lot of content out there ready to sell you on basic marketing and sales tactics and how they can get you more leads. But what about when you’ve done all you can, leveraged every marketing channel, and converted all the quality leads [...]

Having recently won the best newcomer award in the Enterprise Ireland innovation arena at this year’s National Ploughing Championship, HerdEye, an innovative west of Ireland agri-tech start-up is bringing something new to farmers. HerdEye has [...]