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Innovation is About Resilience

I was recently a judge on the pitch panel for ND

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Entrepreneurs need Support Structures

Introduction Apparently, entrepreneurs are the new Rock Stars. I find this to be a pretty fitting analogy as for every stadium headlining Rock Star, there are thousands of musician

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The Detrimental Impact of Business Owners Being Too Busy to Plan

In my 30 years of consulting with business owners I have noticed some key similarities pretty much across the board when it comes to strategic planning. The big one being most business own

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Tai Chi for Entrepreneurs

I recently passed a personal milestone of training in Chen Style Tai Chi for 21 years, pictured above with Sifu Niall O'Floinn and Grandmaster Wang Haijun at the Chen Style Tai Chi Ireland school.

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Interview on The Ireland Podcast

I sat for an interview this week with the new Ireland Podcast. I got to be the fifth guest, right after Sharron Shannon! The conversation was on Social Impact Entrepreneurship and my Pipit experie

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Presentation on 'Who Can I Sell to?'

This is video of a presentation I have in the Portershed in Galway, May 2023. The title is 'Who Can I Sell To?' and the content is based on segmenting the marketplace, positioning the brand in the

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Market Sizing Talk

On May 4th, I gave a talk in Galway's Portershed tech coworking space (broadcast on Zoom) on Market Sizing. From my experience with Founders, they are generally domain experts e.g. software compani

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The Value of Mentoring

Over the course of my time as CoFounder and CEO of Pipit Global, I have experienced the value of having a great mentor and have started to pay that back by mentor

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Joining the Board of YouthBank International

I have recently been invited to join the Board of YouthBank International (YBI). The invitation was quite unexpected, but I am delighted to have a

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Techstars Web3 Mentoring

Recently, I have been mentoring with the LaunchPool Techstars Web3 Accelerator in Dublin. My previous mentoring, with NDRC and Village Capital have all been FinTech companies and all ‘Web2’. I

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