Author Archives: Kelly

Business Advice Clinic – April 2014

Dayna Caceres from Distinctions Consulting comes back on the show this week for our monthly Business Advice Clinic. Dayna answers questions and provides advice to our listeners on challenges in business they have sent to UpStarts, and provides expert tips on dealing with the issues and day to day trials of running a business and…

Stephen Cummins, Founder of Amasat talks good LinkedIn Citizenship – 18-04-2014

Blogger, entrepreneur and CEO of Amasat, Stephen Cummins joins us in studio to talk about his career path, his work with Salesforce.com and his Alpha App award. He discusses his time in Sales Force as a ‘power user’ of LinkedIn and give advice to people on good LinkedIn citizenship. He shows the easy ways to…

Ian Lucey – Founder, Lucey Technology & The Lucey Fund 11-04-14

Entrepreneur, angel investor and innovator Ian Lucey joins us in studio today to talk about the many sides of his business and interest in start-ups from • Funding – what’s available to concept stage start-ups (Country Enterprise Boards, Enterprise Ireland, priming grants, etc.) • Smart Accounting – the different relief schemes available to founders that allows them…

Linked Finance 04-04-14

Marc Rafferty from Linked Finance joins us in studio to talk about the changing face of crowd funding and how small businesses who are finding it difficult to get loans or finance can now crowd source their needs from investors and people in their locality. He shows how Linked Finance can help small businesses get…

Business Advice Clinic – March 2014

Dayna Caceres from Distinctions Consulting comes back on the show this week for our monthly Business Advice Clinic. Dayna answers questions and provides advice to our listeners on challenges in business they have sent to UpStarts, and provides expert tips on dealing with the issues and day to day trials of running a business and…

Blueface – 21-03-14

On the show this afternoon Alan Foy from BlueFace talks to us about cloud and internet based communications as well as their packages to save businesses costs on mobile and landline. He discusses the advantages of cloud communications over traditional forms with benefits like a single mailbox for your landline and mobile, and the ability…

Panama Lifestyle – 14-02-2014

Christina and Karl from Panama Lifestyle join us in the studio to talk about their direct sales business providing luxury, trendy and organic make up goods direct to your door.  They talk about their range of different products, the growth of their door to door business which is all about networking, and how they are…