Tag: Business
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From Acquisition to $300K Lessons: Kevin Innovate’s Startup Journey
A post from Patrick Walsh (CEO & Founder Dogpatch Labs) popped into my linkedIn feed. In the post Patrick is looking for ‘Founders’ and is partnering them up (Dogpatch Labs is an incubator/accelerator). The post was very nicely written and had a great call to action: “If you’re ambitious and want to build something big—but…
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Founders make horrible managers!
At some point in your founder journey you will need to become a manager. I can remember exactly the moment when I accepted that in order to go to the next level in business I’d have to go all-in and become a manager. I really did not want to be a manager but as a…
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Getting The Right Flow for Business Success
A story of my background in Water2buy. This case study was recorded by the local enterprise office in North Dublin Ireland in 2016 right at the beginning of our major growth phase. We didn’t spend much time talking to the media about how great we were, so this is a rare record. It might be…
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Why do you hate your customers?
When is the last time you had an exceptionally good experience? I hope you can think of at least one! Now think of a terrible experience you had. Include any experience you had in which you had to exchange your time. This could be shopping, paying a bill, renewing your insurance, going to the post…
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Unstoppable Success: The Power of Defining Your Mission
To go from good to great get a mission. About 10 Years ago as Water2buy started to grow and gain some momentum, I started trying to implement some of the things I had read in business books and learned from business coaches. One of those lessons was defining our mission or purpose.Almost every cookie cutter…
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Culture: Be careful what you wish for
You’d be forgiven for peering out from under the sheets when someone mentions culture in your organisation. Culture is another one of those terms like ‘teamwork’ that has become a parody of itself, it has devolved into a HR controlled, rule oriented, cesspit of demotivational bullshit – and that’s putting it lightly. I won’t tell…
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AMA – Behind the Business Interview
Business starts local, so I’m happy to spend time helping out local businesses where I can. Fingal chamber of commerce graciously invited me to speak at their ‘Behind the Business Event’ as part of Local Enterprise week 2024. I received the potential questions in advance so I’ve spent time thinking about the answers in advance…
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How to build a successful Team like Jurgen Klopp.
Team, team-work, team-building words so common in business that they have become office buzz words that set the eyes rolling. Oh no, the boss has got a bunch of energy somewhere and now we’re all off to a Forrest park to climb ropes and get plastered after. That, or some variant has become the norm…