Our group’s site visit for today was at Guinness Enterprise Center (GEC). Here we learned more about what fuels Dublin’s thriving startup market. Walking around the city, one can see that there is no shortage of successful multinational corporations present. Due to Dublin’s highly incentivized economic model for attracting business, companies such as Google, Meta,…
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Exploring Entrepreneurial Mindsets!
Today I had a great time visiting the Guinness Enterprise Center, and later I explored Grafton Street to shop. We got to learn about what the company does for clients and see the office space. Overall, I took a few things away from this site visit. To begin, one of the things that stood out…
Ireland on the Up and Up
Happy Thursday! My favorite day of the week. Can’t believe I get to spend it in Ireland… it’s barely starting to sink in. Today, we went to the Guinness Enterprise Center! GEC is a really modern and cool consulting company here in Dublin. I loved their thought process: when the pandemic hit, they encountered a…
Visit to GEC
Today we were able to learn about and tour Guinness Enterprise Centre, which is a collaboration center for entrepreneurs. They provide physical spaces where businesses can work together and resources to help them succeed. They work closely with local and national government to help Irish businesses expand. I liked listening to the GEC representative discuss…
Gab’s Global Glow-up
Since being in Ireland, I’ve observed many modern and historical things such as architecture, food, sports and politics. Earlier in the trip, I remember seeing the old wall of the city and how it is a very historical object and only small parts of it are still there today. In contrast, right next to the…
Guinness Enterprise Centre
Guinness Enterprise Centre was our first site visit of the trip, and they started us out on the right foot. We heard from one of their employees about their experience as a business in Ireland throughout the struggles of COVID-19 and how they plan to move forward as a company. For some background, GEC is…
Google Day!
Today we had an enlightening tour of the docklands area of Dublin, where many major tech organizations such as Google and Indeed have set up base. We were given an much more in depth understanding of the history of this district and how it has grown with Ireland’s current business support system. We deeply discussed…
“Guinness Enterprise Centre? What, like the drink?”
This was a question I know I, and many of my peers, had when we started to research the GEC back home. While this entrepreneurial hub is NOT affiliated with Guinness beer, it’s far more interesting than meets the eye. Guinness Enterprise Centre, or GEC, is central hub that houses over 140 companies and over…
Mindset to Success
Today we were honored to have a site visit at Guinness Enterprise Centre where we learned about how they operate business, work with their partners, and their future plans. GEC is an organization that supports entrepreneurship and innovation in Ireland. For example. the office provides space and facilities for high upside startups, secures funding through…
Entrepreneurship In Ireland
This morning we had the opportunity to visit the Guinness Enterprise Center. First, we learned about how the Irish government has programs, like Enterprise Ireland, that support the growth and development of Irish businesses with the end goal being to create the next multi-national Irish corporation. Ireland also has educational programs that create a pipeline…
The Entrepreneurial Mindset
After a very eventful site visit to Google yesterday, I was very excited to attend another visit this morning at the Guinness Enterprise Center. The GEC is a leading startup hub and innovation center located in Dublin. The GEC provides a range of support services for startups and entrepreneurs, including office space, mentoring, funding, and…
GEC Visit
Today, we had the opportunity to visit the Guinness Enterprise Center (GEC), a nonprofit organization focused on assisting startups and early-stage companies with building and expanding their brand, image and overall company. GEC recently just expanded their office two floors which cost them approximately 10 million dollars and has already filled their office occupancy up…
Its All About The Mindset – GEC
Today we had the amazing opportunity of visiting the GEC (Guinness Enterprise Center). During the visit, it was jam packed full of information regarding what the GEC dollars as well as what their looking forward to in their upcoming pipeline. The GEC is a very impressive non-profit organization that is at the forefront of connecting…
5/10/2023
Dr.Kelly was very informative of the ever-changing Irish culture and business scene. In the late 1900’s Ireland was very behind in technology. Dr.Kelly told us stories of the diffrences in America and Ireland in the 1980’s-1990’s. He described Ireland as an “escape to the past”. Once there was a shift in jobforce activities through the…
Noogles at Google
Today we started our day with a tour from Dr. Kelly where he talked about how education and business has changed over the last few decades in Ireland. It was an amazing tour with incredible stories! We then walked to Google where we toured the offices and asked Googlers questions. I loved the tour and…
Wednesday, May 10th
Hi! Today is Day 4 in Ireland, and I can’t believe how much I am learning and exploring in Dublin! We had our first company visit today at Google’s Dublin location and we were lucky to have Dr. Kelly explain a bit of Ireland’s academic history and how it, was well as the business culture,…
New(goolgler)
Today was an eventful and long day, but also a really fun day. We started this morning bright and early with a Docklands walking tour given by Dr. Kelly. Dr. Kelly and his family grew up in poverty, living in Ireland, and his life was pretty standard to the families living around him at that time….
The Amalgamation of the Old and the New
Today, we went to the Docklands, as it’s name entails, a part of Ireland that used to be used as a docking area for ships. There, we met Dr. Kelly, one of our resident historians, in front of the previously used customs house for the dock. While Dr. Kelly took us around the Docklands, explaining…
Visiting the Docklands!
We had an exciting day today! We started our day with a short tour of the Docklands area. This area was full of businesses, and very pretty. During this tour, we were able to learn more about the history of Ireland, the Docklands, and the area’s purpose. After this, we went to a site visit…
Irish Lessons for Life
How is it already Wednesday? Time flies when the step counter accumulates. Today was eventful. The morning started early. Walking around the river and being lectured on Irish history was incredibly interesting. Most of the Dublin I am experiencing wasn’t here twenty years ago… Ireland never really went through Industrialization in the 18th and 19TH…