Dublin City Enterprise Board

LINK! Start-up Business Network – March Event

You are advised to book early to secure your attendance at this event

Email your booking to link@dceb.ie

Clarion Hotel, IFSC

Tuesday 30th March 2010, 6.00pm – 8.30pm

How to Exploit Your PC’s/MAC’s to Get Them Really Working For Your Business!

Guest Speaker:Christian Kortenhorst, CK Computer Solutions

Every business, big or small, is totally reliant on technology.   At this event LINK! member, Christian Kortenhorst, will talk about some simple, cheap and easy IT solutions for small/medium size companies like ours to use in their every-day business.  He will introduce us to some useful and cost-effective applications.  He will also show us how to spend less time on our computers trying to solve those frustrating recurring problems that annoy us so much!

Some of the topics Christian will explore:

• Email, IMAP VS Pop3
• Online services VS Desktop applications
• Document-sharing
• Dropbox
• Calendars
• Multiple computer setup
• Using what you have
• Mobile devices
• Hardware recommendations
• Online backups
• Open source software

If you have a specific IT topic that you would like Christian to address, you can email your request to Christian@cksolutions.ie .

After the session you should have a better understanding of how a small to medium size business should ideally be set-up for managing files and documents, coordinating email and backing up your data.

Christian Kortenhorst is based in Dublin, Ireland.  He has over 8 years’ broad-ranging technical experience, for example in setting up servers, network environments, and backup systems.  Christian offers consulting and hands-on solutions in these and many other technical areas. He set up his business –  CK Computer Solutions –  in 2008 having completed 4 years in Computer Science in DIT.

Christian’s mission is to provide a quality and creative IT service to small and medium sized businesses. “We strive to advise and provide the best product and services that fits a company’s needs. With our constant research and testing of products and services we are able to keep our clients up-to-date with the best possible products and services that are tried and tested. We select products and services objectively based on a company’s needs and wants.”

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Dublin City Enterprise Board

LINK! Start-up Business Network – November Event

Clarion Hotel, IFSC

Tuesday 24^th November 2009, 6.00pm – 8.30pm

(Register* for this event: link@dceb.ie)

*For hospitality and housekeeping purposes, network members and guests must pre-register to attend DCEB networking events.  To register for the this LINK! event please email Miriam Ahern, LINK! Network manager link@dceb.ie

An Audience with:

David McKernan

Founder of Java Republic

Come along and hear David describe the highs and lows of setting up a new business venture.

This is indeed a man who is not shy about making his opinions felt – even if at times it’s one or a combination of the three E’s: exhausting, exhilarating, entrepreneurial. In a trade full of opinionated people, Java Republic stands out – there is no shortage of suppliers in the trade willing to tell you what’s what with regard to coffee, but Java Republic has distinguished itself by standing up for its beliefs in everything it does, to a degree which is quite exhausting, and always entertaining.

Founder David McKernan began his own roastery after serving his time in the Dublin coffee business, which is widely acknowledged to be a market of extremely high quality products and best-practice work – having formed his ideas about how coffee should be roasted, he then began his own roastery to do it the way he considered it should best be done.  (Did he succeed? He has won 94 Great Taste awards to date).

Then David established his own set of ethical principles about the sourcing of his coffee, much of it inspired by the shock he felt when he first visited impoverished farmers.  After turning his attention to a high-quality tea range, he then demanded that the world should know about the conditions that cocoa workers are expected to live in, and created his concept of ‘the other bean’, his ethically-sourced drinking chocolate range.

Turning his attention to questions of environmental sustainability, he set out to create ‘the first carbon-neutral coffee roastery on the planet’ just outside Dublin, which now offers an open invitation to any interested operator in the beverage trade.   The company has just won an environmental award for it.

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Networking presentation from the Clarion Hotel on September 17th is available here for download.

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