The Entrepreneur Experiment

This week in the Lab, we're revealing the launch of the EE community. Coming in Jan 2021, you can become part of a group of entrepreneurs coming together to build fantastic businesses.  We also discuss the value of documenting your journey, riches in niches and my new favourite YouTube channel.  

Food trailers are one of my tips for the biggest opportunities in 2021. I'm joined this week by an entrepreneur who is a veteran of the food trailer game & now teaches people how to set up their own business. Seany was inspired by his travels across the globe to bring the idea of street food back to Ireland & make it accessible to all. We hear how he started selling tacos at country music festival...

In a special edition of the Idea Lab, we are joined by Kymann Power, the new resident of Daly's Bar in Ennistymon, Co Clare. Kymann has captured many people's imagination with his decision to leave Dublin and set up home in a pub in the West of Ireland.  We discover where the idea came from, his plans for the project, and what it's really like to live in a pub. 

This week's guest left behind a lucrative career in technology with one of the world's most promising companies, to start her own brewery in Waterford.  With just an idea & a rough plan, Grainne set out on an adventure to brew her own beer. She shares how it all started with a few kegs in a single Dublin pub to building her own craft brewery on the south coast of Ireland. 

In this week's Lab, we discuss how one person got so sick of buying €9 meals to have a pint that he has moved into his own pub in County Clare. This sparks a search for Ireland's most interesting properties that you can turn into a business opportunity. All for under €300k.  

Former professional footballer Mark O'Reilly takes me on his journey from sports star to entrepreneur. Mark's company, FitVision, is the go-to coaching resource for Ireland's leading CEO's, entrepreneurs, and elite performers.  We chat about developing a winning mindset, how he completely pivoted his business during Covid and his fitness routine during lockdown. If you are seeking motivation, this...

In the Lab this week, I find out how many companies have been started in Ireland in the last 30 days. We also look at companies attending to solve the problem of attending live events and global travel restrictions in a Covid world.   

Evelyn & Luke from Simply Fit Food are back this week to announce a major milestone & share a good news story. One of my earliest guests in 2020, they return to tell their story of thriving despite the global pandemic and how they managed to sell their business, Simply Fit Food in the toughest market in history. They share the tips and tricks that have helped them in the last 6 months and explain...

This week on the Idea Lab, we breakdown two new ideas in detail. In the aviation world, Qantas launched their flight to nowhere which sold out in 10 minutes.  We do a deep dive into the business of vending machines. How much they make and how you can get started. (hint - 30-80% margin levels) 

Special edition of the Idea Lab where I deep dive into pivot ideas that you can apply to your business. I'm in the middle of pivoting my business so I share parts of my journey.  I share the ideas listeners to the podcast have shared with me and we discuss ideas for bars, restaurants, cafes, hotels, and targeting the home worker. 

This week on the Idea Lab, we examine two very different but excellent marketing campaigns. First, we look at Burger King's sponsorship of a tiny football team in England and how they leverage that for viral success via Fifa. We also look at Love Island's Molly Mae and how she created one of the most viral giveaways in 2020 that delivered her nearly 1 million followers for £8k. 

In under 6 years, Jo Davey has gone from making homemade healthy snacks for her friends at the gym to having a national brand stocked on shelves all across Ireland.  On this week's episode, hear Jo's story of being a first-time entrepreneur in the ultra-competitive food business.  

In the lab today, I reveal the strategy you can use to reveal your true passions in life.  I also reveal a new customer acquisition strategy that is taking the financial sector by storm in America.  

Before I started this podcast 18 months ago, I made a list of 10 dream guests. Today, I am delighted to be able to host one of the 10 from that list, Pat Divilly. Pat is an entrepreneur, speaker, best-selling author, and an all-around fascinating guy.  

Coder. Pharmacist. Disruptor. Shane O'Sullivan is a man that defies labels and refuses to accept the status quo. This is his story of how he quit pharmacy to become a computer coder only to discover a way to combine both passions. In 2013, Shane founded Healthwave, a membership-based pharmacy that shattered the traditional model of pharmacies in Ireland. By utilizing technology and a customer-firs...

If you are taking part in the September Idea challenge you should now realize how ideas are relatively easy to generate. The real trick is deciding which ones are worth pursuing. In today's episode, I share my formula to stress test the ideas and see if they are worth pursuing in more detail.

For the deep dive interview this week, Gary Fox is joined by Pat Stephenson, founder of the Boys + Girls agency. In this week's episode, you will hear Pat's incredible journey through the world of advertising and marketing. You will also learn 3 key lessons: 1. Why creating great work is difficult. 2. A step-by-step guide to starting your own business or agency. 3. How they clinched the deal of a...

In this week's Lab, I share stories of people who are earning over €100k per year teaching niche courses online.  We explore the massive growth in online learning and how you can become an online expert to leverage your existing skills. 

This week, I am joined by Brody Sweeney, founder of O'Briens Sandwich Bars and Camile Thai Kitchen. In a brutally honest and revealing chat, Brody explains how he lost control of the global empire he built and the chaos it brought to his life. His story was only beginning in 2009 and he bounced back rapidly to start Camile Thai. Brody reveals how he found the strength to start again and how he's p...

Today, I am challenging you to come up with a business idea every day for the month of September. 30 Days, 30 Ideas. It can be an idea for a new business or a way to improve your current business. I share with you my template for generating ideas & reveal the prize for the winner of the best idea. 

Do you need to be in Silicon Valley or Dublin to build a major technology company? Not according the Rory O'Connor and his team who are building Scurri into a global e-commerce player from their HQ in Wexford. In this episode you learn: - The proven playbook Rory used to raise over €8m - Being based outside major cities gives you huge advantages - How to pivot drastically when things are failing

In this week's Idea Lab, I am going to show you how to launch any business idea for less than €500. This episode gives you everything you need to go from an idea to business launch in a few weeks and less than 20 hours of work. 

Seamus Fahy is naturally curious. His curiosity propelled him into a career as an oil trader before a random conversation at a wedding changed his life. In today's episode, you will learn how to start a business in an industry you have zero experience in. We'll uncover the secrets of building a huge waitlist of customers before launching and finally, Seamus reveals how being curious can be a busin...

In the Idea Lab today, we find out which sportswear brand only founded in 2012 hit a £1bn valuation. We also look at which challenger bank lost €119m but gained 10 million new subscribers. Finally, I set our listeners a challenge to reimagine the events industry after the news that we may see no live events until 2022. 

Welcome to the first book club review with special guest Fabio Molle. In July, we read Bezonomics, a fantastic book looking at Amazon's unstoppable rise and where they are going next. Fabio and I break down the book, analyse Amazon's business model and potential opportunities for entrepreneurs.