Founder Interviews

The Founders conference took place in Dublin from 28-30 October 2010. Scroll down for a snapshot of some of the amazing individuals we spoke to at this event in Dublin.







 

Brent Hoberman and Rajeeb Dey

Brent Hoberman of lastminute.com and Rajeeb Dey of enternships.com talk to us about their businesses.
 


Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters of TechCrunch talks to us about the event and his first time experience of Ireland


Mike Hirshland

Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures encourages new entrepreneurs


Paul Hayes

Paul Hayes, CEO of Games Industry Group Ireland talks about the importance of the event and encourages new founders


Eoghan Jennings and Dylan Collins

Eoghan Jennings of Parklane Capital and Dylan Collins of Gruupy talk about Ireland as a destination for industry and business start up.


Margaret Brennan

Margaret Brennan, Bloomberg News host provides us with her insight


Joshua March and Sam Matthews

Joshua March of Conversocial and Sam Matthews of Evisua tell us about their companies and the importance of Founders


Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter tells us how it all came about and provides advice to future founders.


Tom Keller

Tom Keller of TechStar provides advise to potential entrepreneurs


Barry O'Leary

Barry O'Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland talks to us about the advantages of starting up your business in Ireland


Dr Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland, Dr Mary Robinson.


Paddy Cosgrave

Organiser - Founders Event


Mohammed Adil and Marcel Hollerbach

Mohammed Adil of Launch 48, and Marcel Hollerbach of Linden Ventures tell us a bit more about what they do.


Martin Frindt and Ingo Hinterberg

Martin Frindt of Scoreloop and Ingo Hinterberg of Crowdpark present their company and their experiences.


Stefan Wicker

Stefan Wicker of Simfy provides advice on overcoming the challenges of starting up. 


Fiona O'Carroll and Johnathon Seigel

Fiona O'Carroll of Houghton Miflin Harcourt and Johnathon Seigel of Accel provide advice on Global Market and the difficulties of start up.


Jan Reichelt and Jason Trost

Jan Reichelt, co-founder of Mendeley and Jason Trost, co-founder of Smarkets tell us a bit more about the companies they founded


Iain McDonald

Iain McDonald of Weedle


Brian Hanley

Brian Hanley of GME Emerging/Ticketsolve


Celia Francis, Kieran O'Neill and Sam Barnett

Celia Francis of WeeWorld, Kieran O'Neill of Playfire and Sam Barnett of Struq


Divyank Turakhia

Divyank Turakhia of Directi


Renee Blodgett

Renee Blodgett of Magic Sauce Media


Matthew Galligan

Matthew Galligan of SimpleGeo


Soraya Darabi

Soraya Darabi of FoodSpotting


Justin Lin

Justin Lin, Head Economist, World Bank


Michael Birch

Michael Birch, founder of Bebo, Jolitics and Profounders.


Deirdre O'Neill

Deirdre O'Neill, a Los Angeles-based event manager, talks about conferencing in Ireland.  


 

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