‘During the weekend, there’s a lot of soul baring’

During the Entrepreneur Experience, there is a “passion in the room that is not replicated anywhere else”, according to Michael O’Connor, chief executive of CorkBIC.

The seasoned business people involved in the programme took great satisfaction from helping the emerging entrepreneurs taking part, O’Connor added, while the emerging entrepreneurs benefited from the expertise of their more experienced counterparts.

The Entrepreneur Experience was set up in 2011 by CorkBIC, as a private sector led ...