Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping This week I had a chat with Barry Wallace, Managing Director of Dash Burger, a fast casual restaurant that specialises in something called a smash burger. Barry opened the first location on Kevin St just 18 months ago, and the concept has taken off like a rocket. There is already a second location on Capel St with imminent plans to expand nationwide. In this chat, we talk about Barry’s creative passion for food and his eagerness to constantly improve on his ideas… through what he calls, marginal gains. We also talk about Barr ..read more

Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping This week I caught up with Jim Breen, Founder and Executive Chairman of Pulse Learning.  Jim set up the business in 1999, with start up capital of just 10 pounds. It’s now a global organisation with an enviable list of clients and revenues in the tens of the millions! In this interview, Jim talks about his early days as a civil engineer, the steps he took to start Pulse Learning, and how becoming RTE's Secret Millionaire led to Jim Founding the Cycle Against Suicide an organisation set up to raise awareness of the suppor ..read more

Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping This week I chatted to Phillip McGlade, CEO at Thérapie Clinic, with over 65 locations in Ireland, UK and India. Thérapie Clinic was founded in 2002 by his father and Phillip joined the clinic in his 20's and became CEO in 6 months. In this conversation Phillip talks about what he learnt growing up in the family business and how they've grown Thérapie Clinic from a single location to a multi-national business with even bigger ambitions. Irish Business Builders is brought to you by Jetbooks. Jetbooks provides online bookkeepi ..read more

Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping This week I caught up with Brian Keegan. Brian was founder and CEO of a global outsourced payroll company called 360 Group which he started from his one bed flat in London, and grew it to 6 offices in the UK and Ireland, a data-processing centre in India and a £60 million annual revenues. Brian sold 360 Group in 2018, and has started business coaching, helping entrepreneurs through the journey from the scale-up to stage, to ultimately selling their business. Brian has embraced the Scaling Up methodology, created by Verne Harn ..read more

Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping This week I spoke to JD Buckley, CEO at Sky Ireland. Sky, as most of you will know, is a global broadcasting and telecommunications company. Since joining Sky in 2012, JD has overseen the growth of the Irish business from just 30 people to over one-thousand today. In this very enjoyable conversation, JD talks about what he learned while working for Digicel in the Caribbean, along with an early opportunity that came from failing an exam in UCD, and he gives some really clear and honest advice for anyone who aspires to one da ..read more

Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping This week I had a great talk with Conall Ó'Móráin, founder and Managing Director of Corporate PR firm, The Media Group and host of Ireland’s (second best) business podcast, That Great Business Show! In this conversation we go right back to his days at UCD, where Conall started his very first media venture, a student magazine called Gob Shout. Since then, Conall has had a very successful business career across media, stock-broking, and public relations. We cover all of this, as well as drawing some interesting contrasts betwee ..read more

Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping This week I talked to Sarah Oullette, founder and CEO of Kindora, an online marketplace for buying, selling and renting premium children's goods. After failing to liquidate some expensive baby equipment online, Sarah realised that there was no secure online retail space for secondhand baby goods. So, Sarah launched the startup and two years later she has a co-founder, angel investment and has just finished the Techstars Accelerator program in London. Sarah talks about how she founded the business, her passion for supporting ..read more

Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping This week we hear from James McElroy, Co-Founder of multiple businesses in the Pet Care Technology space, and along with his brother Timothy, finalists for EY’s 'Entrepreneur of the Year' programme in 2019. James’s most recent venture is the newly launched Oscars Farm, which delivers fresh pressed dog food to your door in a monthly subscription.  James is also co-founder of Gudog, Europe’s largest peer-to-peer marketplace and mobile app for dog owners in need of local vetted dog sitters and walkers.  Gudog operates ..read more

Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping I'm thrilled to welcome Dan Hobbs this week, Co-Founder and CEO of Protex, a software company using artificial intelligence to track safety for industrial employees. Dan and his Co-Founder Ciarán are recent graduates of Y-Combinator, a start-up incubator based in San Francisco, boasting an enviable track record of finding the next big companies in tech. Other notable alumni include Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit, and Stripe! In this conversation, we cover a host of topics, from Dan’s experience applying to and going through the Y-Co ..read more

Free for all listeners: The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Bookkeeping This week I caught up with Mark Flood, Director at Renatus Capital Partners, a private equity fund manager focused on investing in Irish SMEs. In this conversation, we cover a wide range of topics from the early days of the business and how they raised their first fund, to their investment process at Renatus and what they look for when buying a business. Mark also brings me through an example of an investment they made in the burrito chain Boojum – and his thoughts on why the CEO is the most important factor in determining th ..read more