Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Once you’ve been around for a few years, attracted some great people, landed real, paying customers and raised venture capital you’ve likely got a talented team around you. My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

release out the door and get some customers using it, or friendly people piloting it then at least there is some validation to the product and some people to speak to about their experiences. Hairy dentists / Pig farmers – I told the story last night how when I set up my first company the seed investor was a pig farmer from Ireland.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

taxes are a company’s biggest worry, it might think about incorporating in the Cayman Islands or Ireland. With direct customers, personally identifiable data is of most concern. Startups also must pay an inexpensive service fee for incorporating in Delaware. If high U.S. However, the U.S. will collect taxes on sales in the U.S.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

is a UK-based startup that has just launched globally , making its social fundraising platform available to charities to the US, Canada, Ireland and Australia. Great restaurants and new customers find us in the App Store, in the press, and on Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare.”. A good luck charm, perhaps? Believe.in. Believe.in

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Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

All data privacy, time management, productivity and project management requirements of the clients are discussed, and custom solutions are provided on an individual basis. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution. Premium offers have been arranged with a number of coworking office providers including WeWork, Roam, SmartWorks, etc.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

John Dennehy is a serial entrepreneur based in Cork, Ireland. Despite the difficult economic conditions in Ireland, entrepreneurship is buoyant. The market opportunity in Ireland is simply too limited for Internet ventures like Zartis.com to succeed without looking overseas. An island population of 6.4

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 14, 2014

Ireland and Hong Kong. Austin Customer Relationship Management Platform main street hub venture capital' The Austin-based company manages social media communications for small to medium-sized businesses in the U.S., Canada, U.K.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

Tuesday, January 10- Dublin, Ireland Dublin Lean Startup Meetup I’ll be there as The Dublin Lean Startup Meetup Group hosts its first meeting at 6:45pm. Wednesday, January 11- Dublin, Ireland I’ll be facilitating in the Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) program. I've included a preliminary list at the end of this post.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

The self-service Chargify Business Intelligence analytics suite enables users to create custom dashboards with real-time billing and revenue management data. After listening to the needs of our customers, we realized this was a serious gap in the market,” said Paul Lynch, CEO of Chargify. Learn more about Chargify at www.chargify.com.

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Gust

JANUARY 15, 2014

Unfortunately, there isn’t (and since Google hasn’t fixed Gmail yet, if you’re actually a paying customer for Google Apps, instead of a free customer, you have strictly limited Gmail mail storage, and are not allowed to purchase more, at any price!) But I digress [harumph].

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. Well, for starters I had two business trips (SF & Dublin, Ireland). A brand is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s something you must earn over time by living up to the name you define.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Colm Doyle , a co-founder and the Chief Commercial Officer at Forethought is originally from Ireland. Forethought has started with customer support as their first foray for this. They can demonstrably make customer support agents more efficient at their jobs almost overnight. The choice for customers is clear.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2018

Rather than pushing messages on customers, they entice them with multichannel techniques that earn their attention and trust via relevant content. You seek advice from friends and peers on social media. You certainly don’t seek out salespeople or ads. In response, many marketers have switched to an inbound approach.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2018

Lenders will investigate whether customers of a similar profile have been able to repay what they have owed in full. Underwriters may evaluate certain attributes about an applicant in order to make their decision and the idea is that if the customer possesses good traits, their application can be automated and fast tracked to the next stage.

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Gust

JANUARY 15, 2014

Unfortunately, there isn’t (and since Google hasn’t fixed Gmail yet, if you’re actually a paying customer for Google Apps, instead of a free customer, you have strictly limited Gmail mail storage, and are not allowed to purchase more, at any price!) But I digress [harumph].

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

They're an impressive group, kind of an association of all of the angel groups in Ireland who work together to achieve results. All of us like leaders of ventures who:  Have a passion for the customer, and a deep understanding of the customer's business.  Sell first - even in developmental companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2016

Companies House is responsible for approving incorporations in all UK jurisdictions, of which there are three: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. You will also receive correspondence at your registered office address from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to explain your company’s reporting requirements for tax.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

With the support of some of the OPN ladies and with the knowledge from my pre-retirement job, I launched a business writing poetry for customers. These poems were personalized based on what the customer told me about the person who would receive the poem… their likes/dislikes, their hobbies, their job and their families.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Bplans does partner with a business plan writing service —but they only serve customers in the U.S. The Local Enterprise Office provides support and advising to anyone starting a new small business in Ireland. Sometimes we hear from entrepreneurs outside of the U.S. If you’re starting a business outside of the U.S.,

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Jason Ball

APRIL 1, 2008

We’re only just dipping our toes into mobile/wireless etc in LouderVoice with SMS reviews/customer feedback. Scattered around the country you have start-ups like Cubic Telecom and YouGetItBack in Cork, VoiceSage in Limerick, Nubiq in Waterford. Medium term aim is full LBS functionality along the lines of Socialight or Whrrl.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2016

While I may have not immediately understood financial spreadsheets, I could confidently pitch my company and connect with potential customers on an emotional level. My study abroad stay in Ireland and my business stint in Japan opened my eyes to new ways of thinking, and constantly challenged me to think outside my comfort zone.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

Im in Ireland today in a meeting of a company board of which Im a member. Can we quantify success in terms of calls, visits, customer sizes, and so forth? Can we produce a market map to track what our customers want, and from whom they are getting it? Im in Ireland today in a meeting of a company board of which Im a member.

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Transformify

AUGUST 16, 2020

Transformify , a UK-based Freelancer Management System (FMS), has partnered up with Xoxoday , an HR Software company based in India that has offices in Singapore, Australia, the US, Ireland and the Philippines, to boost its expansion across Asia. The same is valid for custom approval hierarchies, user accesses, etc.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2014

For example, you might sell designer diapers via your e-commerce site, emphasizing distribution to English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand, only to find out quickly that the bulk of your inquiries are in French, the native language of the majority of your prospective customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

They reach a highly targeted audience of industry peers and potential customers. So if you can find the confidence and practice your skills, it could prove a great way to communicate to potential customers, for free. Don’t forget to set it up and include your logo professionally with your contact details and links. Enter An Award.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 24, 2020

Customers and partners will understand, and they themselves will have put in such measures in place. Telecommuting via video conferencing on applications like Zoom , Microsoft Teams, Cisco and Slack are key examples of our customers helping the world’s leading enterprises enable and conduct commerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

You’ll be able to give them an update on key hires, pilot customers, key tech innovations – whatever. Note that “performance&# on my chart is a loose term for my definition of perceived progress that can take the form of product, customer adoption, employees, investors, press or whatever. Quick coffees, whatever.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Following a stint in Australia, I came back to Ireland and noticed a gap in the market for actuarial recruitment within the Irish market. I had seen a desire for actuaries to speak with another actuary when contemplating their next career move in Australia, but this wasn’t happening in Ireland. That was over 7 years ago.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

David Skok, who is a must read for all startups , explains that as a SaaS company grows, the size of the subscribers/customers/users who no longer do business with the company will also, organically, grow. How Groove Reduced Churn by 71% By Defining “Why” Customers Quit. While users who remained customers logged in 4.4

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Let’s say the customer is based in “Australia’ the transaction will be recorded as sale with say ‘Singapore’. Oh, and a ‘Related Party’ is essentially ‘them’. Where the corporate tax rate 17%. (My

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 27, 2018

Monitoring evokes images of assessment, such as when a line manager sits in on an employee’s sales calls for two hours to make sure the employee is ticking the boxes, using empathy, tone of voice, and narrative to intrigue the potential customer. For example, you might begin monitoring phone calls with customers for training purposes.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. #1 The quantity is not for the sake of quality and we have a grand total of one open customer issue for a code base exceeding a million lines.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

We must also remember that the movement of food and drink is not solely confined to the Dover Straits, as the Republic of Ireland sees significant volumes of produce cross its borders each year. In total, around 4.9

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That publicist is Kerry McDuling , who is going to help me get exposure in Australian media, which I expect will translate into a new stream of subscribers and customers for my business since I haven’t really tapped into the offline media world much.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 8, 2018

The Digital Marketing Institute’s 2016 report “ Missing the Mark: The Digital Marketing Skills Gap in the USA, UK & Ireland ” lays bare marketers’ shortcomings. Increase existing customers, acquire new customers, increase client quality, etc.”. (A A Skills Gap Marketers Don’t Know They Have. Expert opinions.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 19, 2011

I have writers in Australia, Ireland, Canada, all over the United States as well as other places. Most of the headings and such are auto formatted by a system I had custom built. How Do We All Communicate And How Do We Keep It All Together? Before I get this question, the answer is that my writers are all over the world.

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