3 Inspiring
Entrepreneurs!
Three very
different types of enterprise were winners at last week’s 2014 David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Award!
A museum, an entrepreneurship programme
for schools and a device which enables you make your own electricity!
Trevor White
and Simon O’Connor of The Little Museum of Dublin won the overall Award which
sees them get €10,000 in cash and over €100,000 worth of mentoring and
consultancy services (including PR Strategy advice from Moi – declaring my personal
interest in this story!) There are 3
categories in the Awards – Arts, Business & Social – and they were the Arts
winner also. Trevor and Simon see it
very much as a people’s museum – and all of its 5,000 exhibits have been
donated by Dubliners!
Dr. Chris
Horn (chair of the panel of judges) and Jordan Casey, our inspirational guest
speaker, presented them with their Award.
Jordan is a 14 year old entrepreneur, founder of TeachWare and at one
stage, Apple’s youngest App developer in Europe! He told us that by the time he’s
24, he will have twelve years’ experience as an entrepreneur under his belt – you
could sense the feeling of utter inadequacy spread amongst the audience!!
The other Category winners this year were Fiona
McKeon, Bizworld Ireland (Emerging Social Entrepreneur winner) – a former ‘cigire’
and primary school teacher who teaches vital entrepreneurial skills to primary
school children. Our Emerging Business Entrepreneur winners were Anthony Glynn and
James Sherlock Ar-Nua Tec for their ‘Dunk-E’ device – developed after “two
years of standing in cold rivers” – it’s a micro turbine which is dunked in a
river or stream and which produces electricity! Both category winners receive €1,000 in cash
and mentoring.
Read these
inspirational people’s stories on www.davidmanleyawards.ie
The photo
features, left to right, Simon O’Connor, Sarah Costigan and Trevor White all
from the Little Museum and me!
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