Limbo: No calorie-counting, just gentle nudges into healthier eating habits
This weight-loss programme combines AI and human feedback to monitor your glucose levels, helping you make better diet choices
Pat Phelan
Stephen’s Green Centre heads for €100m facelift but fewer shops and cafes
Seen & heard: Kingspan’s Murtaghs eye Buswells; construction delays and pay rows; O’Gara objects to PIA for former team-mate
Cork entrepreneur’s pivot from tech to beauty is paying off
Sisu is targeting the title of largest aesthetic group on the planet by the end of the year
Google launches virtual ‘Start-up School’ for Irish founders
Hands-on sessions will take place over six weeks
Cork-based Clearword raises $3.25m in seed funding
Business creates summaries of meetings and organises them in a video library
Dogpatch Labs’ new start-up accelerator sparks record levels of interest
Cohort of 11 start-ups chosen from 500 applicants for six-month-long programme
Pat Phelan’s Sisu chain raises additional funds as it eyes US launch
Cosmetic treatment chain’s backers include Greycroft Partners and Bullpen Capital
Coronavirus: Businesses dash to reinvent themselves in bid to survive
As social distancing bites and the shutters come down, innovation becomes essential
Phelan decries ‘scattergun approach’ to seeding foreign start-ups
Entrepreneur says Enterprise Ireland policy of relocating firms from eastern Europe needs to be reassessed
Is Ireland too risk-averse to create tech unicorns?
Our past has left us with a more pragmatic view of failure than the Silicon Valley trope
Has Coronation Street gone too far with grisly double-murder?
Michael Parkinson says murderous Coronation Street makes him recoil. But soaps have always straddled a thin line between sensation and audience comfort
Inside Track: Rena Maycock, Intro Matchmaking
‘Intro grew exponentially in first three years and now we have a strong business’
Concerns raised over Trustev’s future prior to sale
Accounts show fears over company as losses doubled and net liabilites mounted
Plan for Clerys a ‘breathtaking disregard’ for decent business
OCS Properties has applied to Dublin City Council for permission to convert store into a hotel, shops, offices and bars
The raiding of D2: seeking the truth on Clerys closure
Deirdre Foley and her company D2 Private are contesting the seizure of material
Clerys purchased after ‘secret’ meetings, court told
Inspector alleges decision to wind up company not made independently of applicants
GirlCrew wins Irish leg of start-up competition
Winners will attend Israel’s leading tech conference DLD Tel Aviv
Brian Caulfield takes issue with John and Patrick Collison
Stripe duo are fine entrepreneurs, but they don’t have to deal with Ireland’s tax system
Cork-founded tech start-up Trustev sells for $44 million
Fraud-prevention firm acquired by consumer credit-rating company TransUnion
Web Summit: what to see on day three
Dan Brown’s keynote address to explore intersection between tech and spirituality
‘Failure is grand’: the big, fat cliche that isn’t even true
Those now successful founders are not rushing to hire in people who made a mess of their previous companies
Future is bright down on Dublin’s Silicon Docks
The innovation district’s success is due to hard work, risk-taking and good public policy
Television: Tommy Tiernan serves up a dog’s dinner
Review: The comedian was in meltdown mode in ‘Tommy: To Tell You the Truth’
Pat Phelan, Trustev
Headquartered in Cork, identity verification start-up Trustev has offices in Dublin and New York
Tech entrepreneurs should head west to Silicon Valley
You will need to establish a place of business and transplant founders or senior people there for a period of time at least to demonstrate commitment
Trustev takes top prize in SXSW accelerator competition
Cork-based identity verification company beat more than 1,000 entrants
Irish firm makes ‘Forbes’ list of ‘hottest global start-ups’
Cork-based Trustev verifies identity of online shoppers by generating a digital fingerprint
All aboard the Startup Express
Specially chartered train to bring entrepreneurs and investors to Dublin Web Summit
Wayra Ireland: ‘It’s bringing together high-value people. They are raising the bar for start-ups’
Telefónica supports entrepreneurship through start-up accelerators in 13 countries and the first Irish group has just graduated
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