Liam's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): What Liam enjoys most about being an entrepreneur and how he saw an opportunity for PCH. PCH success at being global from day one of the company. Liam's inspiration for PCH's Hardware Highway 1 incubator. Opportunities around innovation from new prototyping renaissance. Tips from Liam on funding the production process for startups. The do's and the don'ts! Liam advises investment in design to help scale a company. Liam tells us why to build and commun...
Dec 11, 2014•19 min
Cristina's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): From her own startup to helping other startups, Cristina shares her experience of helping 25 new startups together with European Pioneers (1.45) Cristina tells us about the early days of Thoughtbox, from being part of an incubator programme, to throwing away the plan and starting again! (4.31) Tips for getting the most from an incubator programme (8.06) The Pros and Cons of a launchpad programme! Cristina's experience of leaving the incubator prog...
Dec 09, 2014•29 min
DC Cahalane's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): DC's computer science background and flair for event management extends to Teamwork. DC sites the Web Summit as one of the best ways to connect with early adopters. His mixed love/hate relationship with the term growth hacking. DC makes the point of seeking out passionate advocates for your startup brand. Tips on how startups should market themselves to investors: MVP and that first customer. Why Kickstarter gives startups no excuse to advance ...
Nov 18, 2014•52 min
These investors knew not to 'miss mobile' and many of them have made the transition to be early adopters on the venture side. Hear their thoughts and opinions on how the EU investment model shakes out in the next few years. Will the EU fall flat or will they see more Tapulous and Angry Birds on the horizon? Tony Fish, Investor, Author and Entrepreneur, SBT Venture Capital Board Director with innovation and high growth experience cutting across mobile, web and digital. Having founded, co-founded ...
Nov 17, 2014•35 min
Eight minutes - That's what it took for Wearable World company SKULLY Helmets to hit their target goal of $250,000. They would go on to be the top technology and top Wearable product of all time for Indiegogo raising over $2.44 million. As a curtain call they’ve recently been named a CNN top ten technology to change the world. Hear and learn about what focus, determination, heartache, and luck turned their 2 hard years into an “overnight” success. Also check out the most advanced motorcycle helm...
Nov 11, 2014•26 min
John Dillon is responsible for all aspects of marketing strategy and execution for Akamai in EMEA. Previously he held the position of Vice President of Marketing for Alcatel Lucent’s Software and Services business. During this time, he was also executive owner of the company's digital strategy and led their innovation program. Dillon joined Alcatel-Lucent via the acquisition of Velocix, a specialist provider of digital content delivery solutions, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior...
Nov 11, 2014•18 min
Redg Snodgrass, CEO and Founder of Wearable World, reviews promising business opportunities in wearable tech, defines areas of substantial growth, and highlights the biggest pain points restricting widespread adoption. Redg is joined by Milo Yiannopoulos, Entrepreneur and Columnist at Business Insider, to answer tough questions about the space including the perceived widespread lack of utility from devices and whether wearables are meeting the expectations of consumers or simply falling short....
Nov 02, 2014•19 min
Myriam Joire (tnkgrl) was born wearing combat boots and holding a keyboard; moments later she picked up a soldering iron. She’s been stomping, typing and hacking ever since. After spending years being a code-monkey in the video game industry, she joined Engadget as Senior Mobile Editor and later Pebble as Chief Evangelist. She's been called a "personality" and a "pundit", despite being (in)ternet famous, she’s just a tomboy with a fondness for other queers, punks, nerds, and misbegotten social d...
Oct 31, 2014•14 min
Chris Heilmann has dedicated a lot of his time making the web better. Originally coming from a radio journalism background, he built his first web site from scratch around 1997 and spent the following years working on lots of large, international web sites. He then spent a few years in Yahoo building products and explaining and training people and is now at Mozilla. Chris wrote and contributed to six books on web development and wrote many articles and hundreds of blog posts for Ajaxian, Smashin...
Oct 31, 2014•17 min
Redg Snodgrass, the founder and CEO at Wearable World, Silicon Valley incubator focused on seed stage Wearable Technology and IoT based companies. Redg is also on the founding team of SKOUT, global mobile social network for meeting new people. Learn about Redg's startup story and get a taste of what it is really like to be an entrepreneur in the 'wearable world'! Redg's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): Redg describes network connectivity, personal computing adoption and crowdfunding and how...
Oct 21, 2014•15 min
Panel discussion explores how startups, multinationals and other stakeholders can make Ireland a leading hub for “IoT” innovation and they also gave away some great tips for startups on bringing hardware products to market. The panel was chaired by Paddy Cosgrave (CEO at Web Summit) and featured key industry leaders: Liam Casey – CEO at PCH International, Philip Moynagh –VP IoT at Intel Corporation, Will Prendergast - CEO at Frontline Ventures and Ben Harris - CEO at Drop. If you are involved in...
Oct 12, 2014•33 min
Andreea Wade, the founder of Brandalism, a startup strategy and digital brand development agency, and also the founder of AskATon, a series of female-friendly events focused on entrepreneurship. She lectured on digital product management at Digital Skills Academy, mentored NDRC, Wayra and New Frontiers startups. Andreea is a co-organiser of the Dublin Startup Weekend, Creative Mornings - Dublin breakfast series, and a member of the Women in Technology and Science (WITS) executive team. Andreea's...
Oct 12, 2014•26 min
Ali's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): Ali tells us how the idea for his smart bike was born out of the old saying "necessity breeds invention"! Ali gives us his pitch and explains what's so special about his smart bike Valour From the Eureka moment to product development. Getting the right people on board was the key. Vanhawks experience of crowdfunding - how Kickstarter campaign helped their market research and product development. Pricing! Ali shares his experience of this delicate balan...
Oct 03, 2014•19 min
Achman's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): Check out Tubett.com, a gamified social network of viral videos. If you like fantasy football and viral videos, this is for you! Learn how Achman and his team have created a game for sharing virals combined with a business model for curating information. "Launch early and launch lean!" Achman gives his tips on getting your idea to grow. Achman gives practical advice on how startups should measure their product market fit. Likes, comments shares, Ach...
Sep 03, 2014•35 min
Signatur's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): Signatur's products and solutions to bitcoin storage problems Factors determing Bitcoin's value Misconceptions about Bitcoin Online and Offline Bitcoin Wallets Explained! The target market for Bitcoin and Signatur's products and why people are using them Innovations coming soon in open-ledgers, decentralised drop boxes and what this means for people's assets The startup community in Dublin Dublin Meetup events and conferences...
Aug 19, 2014•41 min
Kevin's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): Several factors to success: A startup Journey from CityHook to Indigo Kevin's insights on how founders run a business in geographical diversity Kevin's current corporate venture backing from Wayra Kevin's view on securing funding from Angel Investors Kevin's tips on how to create a great product and scale a market - Graphic design and software development key skills in Kevin's role Kevin highlights the importance in learning other disciplines languag...
Aug 11, 2014•29 min
Ian Lucey's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): What Lucey Technology and The Lucey Fund do - the types of startups they are investing in right now. The 'learning curve of doing'- Ian's experience of building an IT system for a charity and what he was surprised to learn. Ian's recommendations for raising finance; using the government supports, tax refund schemes and knowing what's available. The startup mindset vs. the reality of business; Ian tells us some pitfalls to watch out for once you'r...
Aug 06, 2014•46 min
Niall's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): - Niall shares his past experience with Dragons' Den and all the lessons learned from his past startup iFoods. - Tips for startups on how to raise awareness using social media. - How to go about building first customers when you're starting out. - Executing startup idea, from the idea in the pub to making it happen! - Niall's experience with and perceived importance of failing at a startup. - How Niall started Lovin' Dublin and how he moved it on to ...
Jul 31, 2014•59 min
Conor's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): - Conor's startup ShotClip : social movie making at an event & cloud based video editing - Conor explains ShotClip's pivots and revamps to get the correct product/market fit to attract investors - His content marketing strategy of building relationships with bloggers in South America that lead to 1000's of users in one day - Tips on resources necessary to back up a product patent and intellectual property - Conor's early experience with technical...
Jun 20, 2014•33 min
Lari's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): - Intertwined startup project keeping the Finnish entrepreneur busy in Finland, London and Dublin - Lari utilising his Google ad skills helping other startups advance while working on his own startup baby Zilta.co - The Zilta Smartphone (inspired by baby boomers) meeting the target audiences feature request through innovative approaches - Using landing page pre-order model as the first point of contact with the customer for market validation for...
Jun 12, 2014•40 min
Jason's Startup Story (Interview Highlights): - Where things started. What motivated Jason to become an entrepreneur - Jason’s view on startup ecosystem and entrepreneur community in Dublin and Ireland - Jason’s observation of startup accelerators in Ireland - Jason’s tips on networking and startup events in Ireland - Things Jason has learned along his startup journey - Jason’s current startup projects: Parkya and Predict Insights - Jas...
May 20, 2014•35 min
