Business-Startup.ie is a web portal designed to make it easy to direct people to the best resources available in Ireland for starting a business, keeping people up-to-date with details of accelerator and incubation programmes around the country, and providing details of funding supports and competitions that potential entrepreneurs may avail of locally and nationally. The website also has a directory of service providers who can provide detailed advice to new entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises in relation to services such as accounting, company formation, business finance, marketing, franchising, taxation and web design. To attempt to make an impact both at home and overseas, Business-Startup.ie has teamed up with the micro-lending website Kiva in order to make micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries across the world and to promote the work of Kiva. There are entrepreneurs in many less developed countries of the world who do not have access to the wealth of resources available in Ireland but who strive nonetheless to get a new business off the ground in order to provide for themselves and their families. To see who Business-Startup.ie are lending to, you can visit our webpage on the Kiva site at http://www.kiva.org/lender/businessstartup .