Author: Practicenet

As your startup grows, you’ll need to start hiring. How do you conduct interviews for your startup to help you recruit the best candidates? If you’re been following this startup diary, you might recognise that as a trick question. Traditional interviews are a low information ritual at best, and a serious waste of everybody’s time […]

As your startup grows, you’ll need to start hiring. How do you conduct interviews for your startup to help you recruit the best candidates? If you’re been following this startup diary, you might recognise that as a trick question. Traditional interviews are a low information ritual at best, and a serious waste of everybody’s time […]

Ireland’s first successful live demonstration of 5G technology was carried out at an event in Dublin’s Trinity College. Vodafone Ireland and Ericsson achieved 15 Gigabit per second speeds with a latency of less than five milliseconds at the Douglas Hyde Gallery. In addition to showcasing “the 5G speeds of the future”, Vodafone also tested pre-standard […]

Property prices will fall if Britain leaves the European Union without a trade deal, a new report states. This country faces Brexit-related risks because of its tight links with Britain, its largest trading partner, according to ratings agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P). “Should the UK government fail to secure a transition phase and crash out […]

ESB, though its business line Smart Energy Services, is set to deliver €150m in savings on energy costs to over 300 large businesses across Ireland and the UK. Savings will be delivered through a range of measures including auditing companies to help them bring about changes in their energy use, help with retrofitting in buildings […]

Ireland’s most successful technology entrepreneur has warned that soaring housing costs threaten to derail Dublin’s future and its investment potential. Patrick Collison, the 29-year-old Limerick-born billionaire co-founder of payments firm Stripe, who has announced a major new jobs expansion in Dublin, told the Irish Independent that the capital’s housing spike is being noted as far […]

An app that will give local businesses the chance to compete online with big brands is launching this week. According to its creator Philip Cullen, RUBAN is about shopping local and keeping the country’s high streets busy. Local businesses will be able to manage a business profile on the app and post notifications about their […]

AgTech accelerator programme Yield Lab Europe has opened for applications from start-up companies for its 2018 programme. Under the programme, the Galway-headquartered Yield Lab will support up to eight companies with an investment of €100,000. In addition the chosen start-ups will receive mentoring and training to help them turn their ideas into successful internationally scalable […]

The Irish small and medium enterprise (SME) lending market has become increasingly concentrated in the last six months. There are now fewer banks in Ireland holding an ever larger market share of the lending to SMEs, according to the Central Bank’s SME Market Report. According to the data, this sentiment is applicable to both outstanding […]

With the CAO deadline tomorrow, Leaving Cert students will be busy considering their options for third-level study—and their future career. Ahead of this, jobs platform IrishJobs.ie has revealed the top five sectors with the most vacancies for graduate-level roles. Unsurprisingly, leading the way are vacancies in banking, financial, and insurance sectors, which top the list. […]