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E25 That Great Business Show, Impact Gumshields, Kaliedy.com , Equine MediRecord, AIMapIT
Season 1, Ep. 25
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E25 That Great Business Show, Ireland's best business podcast.
2.00' A hilarious insight into the first seven years of start-up www.ImpactGumShields.com with former advertising exec James Murphy explaining the highly unusual and very, very painful way he found to attract a million viewers to learn about his patented gum shield. It involves Ian Madigan testing the gum shield, but not where or how you might think! Have a look here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ0BkQCyQTs After 'a mere' three and a half years Impact has finally secured a patent on its software. Next stop the world. To complete his Impact Gum Shield early executive team James explains why 'he'd hire Dan Weiden (creator of Nike 'just do it' strapline) in a heartbeat'.
26' The Ward family owned the Mothercare franchise in Ireland for decades but with the collapse of the UK mothership the Irish franchise finally foundered and the family business went down with it. Marketing director Laura Ward was in Mothercare HQ in Watford, UK the day the story broke. She heard not from management, but she saw it on Sky News. She tells That Great Business Show how traumatic that was. Now, the Ward siblings have started again with www.Kaliedy.com - an online version of what they had - but with a greater emphasis on backing small Irish businesses. Laura wants relevant businesses to contact her with a view to a listing. Her 'Hire in Heartbeat' is Chrissy Teigen. She explains how having Chrissie onboard could make her business go global.
47' You may think you know the horse business. That is until you listen to Equine MediRecord co-founder Pierce Dargan. He trots us through the worldwide market opportunities for his software, markets that include Sweden where horse trotting is massive (who knew?), New Zealand where bloodstock makes a mark on the country's GDP, Poland - famed for its Winged Hussars. In total he gives 60,000,000 reasons why his TCD Tangent backed business has a massive global opportunity. As well as hiring his grandad, famous industrialist Michael Dargan, in a heartbeat he also wants Andrew Lloyd Webber in his posse. Find out why.
1.09' Next time you look at a lamppost, say to yourself, 'there's a business in that'. The same goes for a park bench, a road sign, a telegraph pole. The great news for another TCD Tangent backed company, www.AIMapIT.com is that their very early stage AI company is already getting traction from large enterprises who want to count the 2 million lamp poles in Ireland, or the 5.5 million poles in the UK. Co-founder Julie Connelly says that because it's at such an early stage the business opportunities are only beginning (a Greek company has already come calling). Listen to see if you have a business idea that could you use their business idea. Julie's 'heartbeat hire' is Padraig O'Donoghue of Surecom Technology. He'll be scarlet when he hears why!
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246. E246 That Great Business Show - Checking furniture for listening devices, Ciaran Finane, Finline - Getting the staff back to work, Mary Finn, Connect4Work
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245. E245 That Great Business Show - Police Special, Stewart Copeland on a Sting reunion and hiring David Grohl plus Paul McGuinness
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244. E244 That Great Business Show - Plastic that eats itself, TPS Plastics - Jason McLaughlin & Crap Ads, Sam Moorhead, Mikey Fleming - Connelly Partners
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243. E243 That Great Business Show - Hosted Kitchens, the future of food, Sean Murray & Boxes that save lives in search of a backer, Darren Forde
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242. E242 That Great Business Show - We bring you the 'Absolute Truth' - Partsol CTO, John Callahan - Wales wants your business, Mark John, founder Tramshed Tech
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241. E241 That Great Business Show - How many ways can you use digital spatial data - Alan Browne, CEO, Soarvo - the answer will surprise you
29:18||Season 1, Ep. 241Episode 241 That Great Business Show with Conall Ó Móráin featuring Alan Browne, CEO of Soarvo, a company born from nerd rage!Too much juicy 3D data, not enough ways to actually use it? Soarvo has fixed that. Think less head-scratching, more wow-factor maps.KOREC Group’s New BFF, they've teamed up to spread their geospatial gospel across the #UK and #Ireland.Construction? Check. Agriculture? Yup. Telecoms? Absolutely. You can check every motorway for wear and tear from the comfort of your laptop...it means the end of the little man, with is measuring wheel, dicing with death on the hard shoulder of motorways.And you'll be amazed what needs mapping, like (sshhh, we're not allowed to mention) Formula 1 tracks (safety first, no debris), horse racing tracks (which has a knock on to Paddy Power betting, for example) - they can even tell you if your house roof needs fixing...the applications are near endless. Alan's 'hire in a heartbeat', Michael O'Leary, 'possibly Ireland's best CEO ever!'With thanks to De Facto Shaving Oil - NOT a beard oil, the all natural oil for anyone who shaves.
240. E240 That Great Business Show - A VR world-leader, based in Ireland, needs cash to go mega & How to gain operational efficiencies of 40%
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239. E239 That Great Business Show - Why Big Engineering Projects are under priced
33:25||Season 1, Ep. 239Episode 239 That Great Business ShowLaurent Germain, CEO, Egis WorldwideSteven Preece, CEO, Egis Ireland.Egis, the engineering company, the largest engineering company in Ireland, and they gave you The Port Tunnel, the Jack Lynch Tunnel, the Limerick Tunnel...and so, so much more. They're also making sure the Adare bypass happens before the Ryder Cup comes to Limerick.We have two bosses in studio with us, the Irish boss and the Big Big boss, of a company employing 20,000 people worldwide. They have €1billion to double the size of the company...and they're looking for acquisitions in Ireland as well as worldwide.They tell us why Cork, Limerick or Galway won’t be having a high speed train anytime soon. Why the government should follow the French model and hire the best engineers to project manage big infrastructure projects to keep them somewhere near budget. (In an earlier 13-year long career Laurent worked at the top end of government in France)And why Ireland needs another 6,000 engineers – right now. (Egis is hiring too).Their 'hires in a heartbeat'The French boss opted for French star, Antoine DupontThe English born, Irish boss, opted for Ireland and Lions coach, Englishman Andy Farrell