Wanted: Innovator, risk-taker to be own boss

John Daly discusses the highs (and sometimes lows) of the entrepreneurial journey.

RUNNING your own business is both a physically and mentally challenging experience.

Those involved often work double the hours of the average PAYE worker and in many cases earn little to nothing from the business in the first 18 months, according to Siobhán Finn, coordinator of Cork Innovates, an initiative of the Cork Entrepreneurship Steering Group partner organisations, funded by Cork City and County Councils and hosted by Cork Chamber.