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Liam's Startup Story (Interview Highlights):

What Liam enjoys most about being an entrepreneur and how he saw an opportunity for PCH.

PCH success at being global from day one of the company.

Liam's inspiration for PCH's Hardware Highway 1 incubator.

Opportunities around innovation from new prototyping renaissance.

Tips from Liam on funding the production process for startups. The do's and the don'ts!

Liam advises investment in design to help scale a company.

Liam tells us why to build and communicate with a customer community.

Ireland as a perfect location for the flow of global information.

Key learnings from Liam's entrepreneurial career.

Cristina's Startup Story (Interview Highlights):

From her own startup to helping other startups, Cristina shares her experience of helping 25 new startups together with European Pioneers (1.45)

Cristina tells us about the early days of Thoughtbox, from being part of an incubator programme, to throwing away the plan and starting again! (4.31)

Tips for getting the most from an incubator programme (8.06)

The Pros and Cons of a launchpad programme! Cristina's experience of leaving the incubator programme and taking her first steps in the big bad world! (10.31)

The high points of Cristina's startup journey......need some inspiration?...this will inspire you!!! (13.06)

The next phase of Thoughtbox. Cristina talks about building partnerships with Easons and Fyffes (14.30)

The transition from corporate business woman to startup star! (17.00)

Cristina talks about where she thinks startups in Ireland still need funding (20.01)

Entrepreneurs! Support each other! (27.12)

Cristina's contact details (28.11)

DC Cahalane's Startup Story (Interview Highlights):

DC's computer science background and flair for event management extends to Teamwork.

DC sites the Web Summit as one of the best ways to connect with early adopters.

His mixed love/hate relationship with the term growth hacking.

DC makes the point of seeking out passionate advocates for your startup brand.

Tips on how startups should market themselves to investors: MVP and that first customer.

Why Kickstarter gives startups no excuse to advance their product without funding.

Some pointers in marketing a hardware product vs a software product.

What makes a good hustler and why it is important to a startup.

DC's Cork Startup Weekend and Built in Cork initiatives.

These investors knew not to 'miss mobile' and many of them have made the transition to be early adopters on the venture side. Hear their thoughts and opinions on how the EU investment model shakes out in the next few years. Will the EU fall flat or will they see more Tapulous and Angry Birds on the horizon?
Tony Fish, Investor, Author and Entrepreneur, SBT Venture Capital
Board Director with innovation and high growth experience cutting across mobile, web and digital. Having founded, co-founded and sold a number of businesses over the past 25 years, I remain passionate about highly disruptive tech which is fast scaling and at an early stage. Tony has a style which is based on fast iteration, trust, deep involvement, clear decision making, robust financials, transparency and strong open governance controls.
Paul Miller, Partner, Bethnal Green Ventures
Paul's responsibilities are the strategy and partnerships. He was previously co-founder and CEO of education technology startup School of Everything as well as working for the think tanks Demos and Forum for the Future.
Benjamin Joffe, General Partner, HAXLR8R
HAXLR8R ('HAX') is the first accelerator building 'lean hardware startups'. An expert on startup ecosystems with 14 years experience in China, Japan, Korea and USA, he has been invited to speak in over 200 events across 23 countries including at TEDx, SXSW, LeWeb, TechCrunch Disrupt, GMIC, Stanford, Berkeley and INSEAD. Prior to HAX, Benjamin founded the consultancy Plus Eight Star Ltd., and worked with clients such as Microsoft, Tumblr and Harvard Business School to identify innovative services in Asia's digital space. Benjamin is also an angel investor in Asia-based and hardware startups.

John Dillon is responsible for all aspects of marketing strategy and execution for Akamai in EMEA. Previously he held the position of Vice President of Marketing for Alcatel Lucent’s Software and Services business. During this time, he was also executive owner of the company's digital strategy and led their innovation program. Dillon joined Alcatel-Lucent via the acquisition of Velocix, a specialist provider of digital content delivery solutions, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to this, Dillon held a number of senior marketing roles at leading tech firs including SurfControl, webMethods, Volantis, Extricity, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. In 2009, Dillon was listed in Streaming Media Magazine's top 10 most influential, innovative and important people in the European online video industry.

Eight minutes - That's what it took for Wearable World company SKULLY Helmets to hit their target goal of $250,000. They would go on to be the top technology and top Wearable product of all time for Indiegogo raising over $2.44 million. As a curtain call they’ve recently been named a CNN top ten technology to change the world. Hear and learn about what focus, determination, heartache, and luck turned their 2 hard years into an “overnight” success. Also check out the most advanced motorcycle helmet in the world.
Mitch Weller has shared his brother’s passion for motorcycling since before he can remember. This same passion eventually led him to join SKULLY in 2013 after holding Director positions in human resources, operations, and materials logistics. Mitchell served in the US Army, holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, and enjoys getting his hands dirty working on motorcycles and cars. With over twenty years of combined riding experience, the Weller brothers are deeply passionate about enhancing motorcycle safety through technology.