Resilience and the ‘Dark Triad’

Director, Founder, Business Psychologist and Business Coach at DH Coaching & Consulting, Dannielle Haig, headed a personal development workshop powered by C&C, PA recruitment agency, teaching the importance of ‘resilience’.

Understanding R&D Tax Credits

In the last two articles in this series I have looked at various aspects of finance and this time I am going to stay with the financial theme but from a very different angle – tax. But tax is a very broad topic and I wanted to focus on one unusual aspect of the UK tax system, and that is R&D (research and development) tax credits, and it is unusual in the fact that this time it is HMRC giving you money rather than taking it.

South-By-Southwest celebrate startups with innovation awards

South-By-Southwest is an annual assemblage of conferences and festivals that takes place in Austin, Texas in early March to celebrate the convergence of film, music, interactive and other industries. Created to foster both professional and personal growth across multiple levels, the ten-day event prides itself on truly being all things to all people.

Ground Control to Major Tom

The audience at the Dublin Tech Show 2019 fell silent and slipped into awe as it listened to the man who broke into Mir using a Swiss Army Knife, flew into Earth orbit three times, was Commander of the International Space Station (ISS), has spent 166 days in space and was the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space: NASA Colonel, Chris Hadfield.

Fireside Chat: How to succeed with a startup

Moderated by Graham Hussey, Co-Founder of The Startup Van, this panel at the Dublin Tech Show 2019 (DTS) made up of celebrity companies in the startup arena, Expon Capital, 500 startups, Valor Ventures and Techstars, broadly discussed the ways in which a startup can succeed.

Positioning your team and brand for international scaling

On the ScaleX stage at Dublin Tech Summit 2019, April 10th, a panel comprised of: Andrew Lindsay VP Corporate Development and Business Development at Hubspot; Alan Costello Venture Investor Leader at NDRC; Niall McEvoy Manager of High Potential Startups at Enterprise Ireland; and moderated by Graham Hussey co-founder of The Startup Van, discussed how to position your team and brand for international scaling.

Let’s stop glorifying failure

On the ScaleX stage at DTS 2019 (Dublin Tech Summit) Willie Morris got real in his talk about startup failure.

Life’s a Pitch

Sachin Dutta, Growth Hacker and Founder of Tractionic, shares a growth hacker’s perspective on why humans fail and how to succeed at crowdfunding.

Hello, is anybody home?

It all started when husband and wife John and Avril wanted a new doorbell, and there was nothing that suited their home.

Getting Finance – Part 2

In this, the second part of looking at the different forms of finance available to a startup, I look specifically at the different types of equity finance and try to summarise the benefits and drawbacks of each. The March edition of the magazine looks at the question of finance in full detail.

Behavioural economics

Behavioural economics is the combination of human psychology, decision science, and economics. It is an innovative and scientific approach to understanding how humans make decisions.

The Year of the Engineer

2018 was ‘the year of engineering’, and arguably a year that allowed more women to make even more of a breakthrough in the industry.

Getting Finance – Part 1

So far in the series I have looked at some of the different types of assistance that is available to a startup and also about what benefits working with a Mentor can bring and how you should be trying to maximise those benefits. 

The business of engineering: startups on startups

Successful tech entrepreneurs share the lessons learned from starting a new business.

Engineering vs. Technology

If you are an engineering startup and proud raise your hand! It is nearly a year since the first issue of Startups Magazine, and if it has opened my eyes up to one thing, it is that there are a lot of you startups out there – which is a great thing!

Who runs the industry?

There is not enough diversity in the technology sector as a whole. At London Tech Week, Mike Butcher editor at Tech Crunch, said this year’s figures show that in the tech industry 20% is made up by females, and that has dropped from 33% in 2002.

Is engineering masculine?

There is a massive stigma out there that certain careers are for boys and others are for girls. But why?

Never again be an inadequate gifter

15Gifts was started seven years ago by founder, Tom Cox, when he had the idea to create the first intelligent gift finding engine.

An open source platform to power the world’s data economy

Streamr is building an open source platform that will power the world’s data economy and give people control of their information.

The Future of Walking

According to research from King’s College London, over 9,000 Londoners are dying early every year as a result of toxic air.