There is a global industry-wide reality that every business loses some customers every year, due to ‘pull’ and ‘push’ factors. Photo: Stock Image

Picture a bathtub that is half full of water. If your intention is to fill the bath and to keep it full, you'll need to plug...

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Fourteen percent of Irish SMEs rate their internet connection as “poor” or “very poor”. Stock image

One in five Irish businesses that don't have an online presence say they are being kept offline by poor broadband.

Fourteen percent of Irish SMEs rate their internet conne...

Finding good people for your journey can be almost impossible. Stock image

We live in wonderful times. A technology startup has never been easier to launch. The online tools have never been more powerful, and the knowledge has never been more accessible. You literally c...

After only five years with Teeling Whiskey, Jack Teeling, the founder and chief executive has already ‘got one over’ on his famous serial entrepreneur father, John Teeling, of Cooley Distillery fame. Son Jack won the top prize in the emerging category at the EY Entrepr...

Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade, Alastair Blair, Country Managing Director, Accenture Ireland and Adam Kelly, Managing Director, Financial Services, Accenture Ireland, at a business breakfast hosted by Accenture Ireland, which examined how variou...

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€160m a year in state money is provided to homeless charities, with nine hundred employees on the payroll of the four largest charities alone. There are over 75 state-funded organisations and service providers in the housing and homeless sector an...

I'm writing a weekly series of articles on my new startup - it's an exercise in radical openness.

I got this idea for radical openness from a Canadian guy called Shane Parrish, who writes at farnamstreetblog.com. In particular, the idea that you should maintain a 'decis...

Budget 2018

There has been less column inches given to Budget speculation in recent weeks compared to previous run-ins, perhaps thanks to the Ryanair debacle.

There is plenty of speculation this week regarding what is in store for us on Tuesday. The government is exp...

Metsitaba founder Richard Rodger says many startup founders’ accounts of their success suffer from ‘survivorship bias’

I’m going to write about building my startup. I’m going to write about it every week, in real time. If you are thinking of doing a startup, or are in t...