Startups are businesses. Why do some people seem to forget that? Especially the people running them. Not just ordinary businesses, but business at the hardest point in any journey; the start; where every minute, every hour, every day is valuable and irretrievable when wasted. Where every decision has consequences, where resources are extremely limited and […]
We were bricking it. It was the final of Startup Battlefield, the highlight of Techcrunch Disrupt New York, the world’s toughest pitching competition. Four long days of preparation, working on slides, owning our numbers, researching the judges, trying to guess what sort of questions they’d throw our way, technical rehearsal, after technical rehearsal, with little […]
Risk taking is part of being an entrepreneur, in fact I rate it as the defining characteristic of being an entrepreneur because its usually the paralysis from fear of the unknown that stops people from becoming entrepreneurs in the first place. But for some reason we now live in a era that celebrates the cult […]
Update: The Guys at Atlantic 302 did an episode talking about the contents of this post (which is awesome… the podcast… not the post…. this isn’t a humblebrag…. I promise…) It feels like sometimes the key failure in current policy towards developing a proper, fully functioning entrepreneur ecosystem in Ireland is pretty much based on […]
A lot of first-time founders and startups are going out to raise money these days. It’s pretty hostile territory at the moment. And they usually start off awful, I mean really, really, really bad. Their only experience of this kind of finance is usually limited to their own personal finance stuff – applying for mortgages, […]
It always amuses me when people in the startup space talk about Unicorns as something to aspire to – an imaginary creature thats more fiction than fact. Let’s face it, the guys and girls you want to meet and hang out with are the Rhinos, hard nosed motherfuckers that everyone respects, they’re basically armoured unicorns. […]
Today, I read something that made me weep. Well, actually, it made me angry, so damn angry. In a advert for new ‘business mentors’ for a local enterprise board in Cork, it was highlighted as part of the application process that any applicants must have their own professional indemnity insurance, absolutely damning proof that it’s […]
48 hours ago, in one fell swoop, Stripe, a company famed as one of Ireland’s great missed opportunities, changed the game for a whole generation of new Irish technology companies. Through its new product, Atlas, Stripe, already the payment platform of choice for the majority of new Irish startup companies has now enabled a new Irish […]
The last five years of my life have been absolutely incredible, a rush and adventure that I never thought I’d experience once, not to mind twice! And now I have some news but I guess like everything context is important so sorry if this gets lengthy but it needs to be said. Like every good […]
So with one week to go until the world’s attention settles on Ireland and the historic decision we have to make as a country, here’s a thought for the employers of Ireland. You keep saying that you want the brightest, smartest people to work for you. You want people of character, who’ll take responsibility for […]
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