Full coverage: Entrepreneurship

Bootstrapping and doing everything yourself puts early-stage entrepreneurs in the seductive position of being in full control, but this comes at a growing cost over time.

Four years ago, Chevron College was a 56-person training provider with a founder determined to triple the business. Today, Karl Fitzpatrick has delivered on that promise — and now he wants to build a €100m education group spanning Ireland and the UK.

In the third part of this series, fictional entrepreneurs Sarah and Jack Harbour structure their business and assets to attract buyers and maximise their net proceeds from a sale.

Entrepreneurs are busy with day-to-day operations. But long-term value creation depends on much more structured plans. This three-part series tracking a fictional family business explains how.

Luke Joyce found it hard to fit into an entrepreneurship degree and took a year out of college to start his business. A subscription model aims at turning it into a one-stop shop for home maintenance.

From Dublin to Dubai – Part 5: After opening her second premium dessert bar in the UAE, Irish entrepreneur Saifa Kajani has just decided to pull the plug on her original Dublin business The Drunken Cookie. She explains why.

Values aren’t just a collection of hackneyed phrases filling up space on a website, they are the foundation of culture, cohesion and clarity in a growing business. The first step in writing them out is to call out the bullshit.

Artificial intelligence is lowering barriers to entry for entrepreneurs, especially in software start-ups. It is also making the field more competitive, pushing founders to try more business ideas and build their own distribution channels.

Having spent most of the past 20 years in China, furniture designer Frank Carroll saw his company Alfrank Designs face insolvency last year. Aged 71, he was asked: “Do you still want to do it?”

Ireland’s start-up and scaling ecosystem has never been more vibrant but for founders, choosing the correct funding at the optimum time can often prove difficult. There are many options out there.