The Entrepreneur Experiment

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 business superpower. 

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. 

I’ve spent the last week traveling around our wonderful island. While it was great fun, parts of it were really stressful.

That stress was entirely down to the friction created by Covid. Wherever friction exists in a consumer journey, there are lots of opportunities for smart entrepreneurs.

I break down 5 areas you can get ideas from this week. 

In this week's Idea Lab, I explore the idea of 15-minute cities and how that will offer opportunities for entrepreneurs.

We also go deep on the idea of second-order effects and the hundreds of business opportunities Covid has opened up for aspiring entrepreneurs.

In this week's episode, we learn what company is making $13m from just 13 employees. We also discover which GAA star is under fire for becoming an entrepreneur.

Each Monday I’ll be sharing a new episode of the Idea Lab podcast. It’s a rapid summary of the ideas I’m exploring and trends I’m spotting for new business ideas.

This week we breakdown how GymShark has £53m cash in the bank and how being a YouTube is now more lucrative than being a doctor.