From starting as an electrical engineer, through the CIA, to building Connamara into the financial powerhouse it is today. This is the story of Jim Downs.

In this episode I had the amazing opportunity to interview him and talk about everything from his early life to what they are working on now.

Hope you enjoy!

Find Connamara at www.connamara.com and www.connamara.tech 

Recently with the looking at jobs, it got me wondering about recruiting and how do you actually hire people that are excited about what you are doing. In this episode, I go over my confusion and highlight a potential side of marketing that could help with this. Thanks for listening!

It's not that common place to start a start-up right out of uni and outside the stereotype of "Stanford dropout turned billionaire", especially in Europe, you don't really see many pushing for that path. Tons of people wanna start a business at some point after uni, but many start by spending a few years in investment banking or consulting first. Entrepreneur First is trying to change that approach, and their graduate program seems to directly attack this.

Since I've applied to EF and am now dealing with sorting out my contract with them and looking to accept the offer, I wanted to talk about EF, where I see it fitting in, and why I think maybe more people should apply and try it.

Thank you for listening!

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In the startup space we all keep hearing how faced paced it should be. Well Mohd took this to heart with his one week MVP approach. Recently he came up with, built and sold a startup called MicroInvest in less than a week. How does he do it? Why is this his aproach to startup? What can we all learn from him? All this and more in this episode on Quan2m.  Thank you for listening!

If you've ever tried building a following on social media I'm sure you've thought to yourself "I wish I was on here when it was smaller so I could have taken advantage of it blowing up." Well that is exactly what trying up and coming social media platforms can do for you. But is it worth your time? How do you know it's now a waste? What should I even pick? Thank you for listening!

If you're ever looking to raise money you will need to know how much your business is worth. With todays guest who is the Chief Appraiser at Veistrat we talk about EU compared to US for VC, valuations and raising capital. Thank you for listening!

Being able to build your own brand with the ease that it is possible now is one of the biggest benefits of social media. In this episode we talk about the massive value a personal brand can bring you even if you aren't aiming to run a business. Thank you for listening!

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