At the community level, football provides a unique platform for people to connect with their neighbours and like-minded individuals. These gatherings, often starting informally with a few people kicking a ball around, grow organically, fostering camaraderie and mutual respect. In such environments, social and economic barriers fade away, replaced by a shared love for the game, friendly competition, and laughter.

The startup ecosystem in Ireland is on a steady growth curve. The number of new startups, new accelerator programs, funds, hubs, 360 degrees ecosystem, all add to this. During the recently concluded National AI Meet in Galway, I had an opportunity to meet Dr. Divya Rajput, CEO of JSS Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park in India. Dr Divya Rajput and myself connected again towards the …

"Our journey has been diverse, our journey has been mixed, but there's been one common thread across.It's to always do what you're passionate about. Be it in corporate, be it as anchor, and now being as an entrepreneur."

We're releasing our product in three key versions. So our main aim our North Star is for real time exercise feedback and analysis. So everyone who is doing physiotherapy at home or training in the gym that they can get live, completely individualised feedback on their movement patterns so they can stop injury risk and then maximise their results.

This is the last of the 5 episodes. In these 5 episodes, Jeri talks about her life learnings, challenges, startup hurdles, leadership lessons and always be prepared for the next 'humbling' moment.

In this 4th episode, Jeri talks about the thought process and research behind the startup Tilt Five's offering. The special light weight Augmented Reality glasses, focal points, interactive gaming, etc. The features and uses of Tilt Five other than just gaming. Jeri spoke about how they worked on the idea of virtual game board, holographs and partnering with board game developers, etc. The challenges and bad sides of emotional excitement including subtle manipulations.

Jeri talks about the early days of Tilt Five. The initial days of putting together the team, technology , why the name 'Tilt Five' and the call she received from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell which actually pushed her to start Tilt Five.

She was surviving on the meagre savings doing part time work but her passion to make many innovative circuit boards, FPGA chips that could act as video screens, sound generators, etc. helped her to focus on her strengths & finally got the first 'engineering' job.

My dad's name is Klaas. That's where the Klaas Kickz comes from. I created a bond with my dad through football. I'm hoping that this can do the same with parent and child all around Ireland and even the world. My dad wasn't big into football until I was big into football. But he knew the importance of playing, activities and being outside in fresh air.

In this episode, Jeri shares the story of her adventures with dirt car racing, learning the basic of building and racing cars from Duke Southard, selling computers through her initial entrepreneurial journey , "Computers Made Easy", the humbling moments, life lessons and much more.