Ever wondered about raising cash for a startup? Unsure where
 to start or how to go about it? About grants? Or venture capital firms? Or investment ‘angels’? Or even asking family and friends?

This week, Adrian Weckler gets answers to these beginners’ questions
 from Jack Cantillon, CEO and co-founder of the new Dublin-based startup Herd, which has just raised €600,000 with commitments for another €400,000.

Donal ‘DC’ Cahalane, the experienced startup consultant now working with Dogpatch, also joins the podcast to offer his advice on what to do when you’re starting off.

A beginner’s guide to raising startup cash — from those who are  doing it right now

What everyday tech quirks really get on your nerves?

Banking? Online players? Services
 not letting you cancel online? Adrian Weckler discusses some of the worst offenders with journalist Jonathan Keane and broadcaster Andy O’Donoghue.

The most irritating, broken tech in our daily routines

Are the tech companies, with their high salaries and expanding campuses, making it unaffordable for everyone else?
And does this make Dublin a blander, less interesting city?
Joining technology editor Adrian Weckler to discuss the issue is Leonard Hobbs, director of Trinity College Dublin’s Research and Innovation; artist Claire McCluskey, whose inner city Richmond Road Studios workplace recently recover an eviction notice; and Mark Cullen, director and curator at Pallas Projects studios in Dublin 8.

Is Dublin becoming San Francisco?

Elon Musk is a genius and an inspiration to millions. But he's also acting like an asshole in his drive to buy Twitter.

So do you have to be a bit of a bully to succeed in tech? Do you have to mete out abuse like Steve Jobs… to achieve things like Steve Jobs? Or can you be a nice guy like a Collison and still get all the way to top? 

To discuss this, Adrian is joined by Conor Neill, the founder of six companies, best known of which is Taxijet. He also holds a psychology degree and is professor at one of the world’s top business colleges, the graduate business school of the University of Navarra, IESE. He is also president of Vistage in Spain, which describes itself as the world’s leading CEO organisation.

Do you have to be an asshole to be a top tech founder?

Over the last week, tech stocks have crashed. The likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Amazon lost between €120bn and €200bn each in their market value.

Some others, like Zoom and Netflix, are even worse, down between two thirds and three quarters in value.


What the hell is going on? Are we all suddenly reassessing what we think the value of these tech companies is? Or is something else causing these valuations to slide?


Could it affect your pension? Or, if you work for a tech firm, your pay?

And what on earth is happening to sections of the crypto market?

To discuss the issue, tech editor Adrian Weckler is joined by Jon Ihle, deputy business editor of the Irish Independent.

What effects do crashing tech stocks have on your pension and pay?

Does Elon Musk, conqueror of low orbit space, pioneer of the electric car, the nearest thing we have to a real life Iron Man, actually intend to buy Twitter or not?
Is he really being put off about spam bots, the defeat of which was one of the reasons he said he wanted to buy the platform? Is he trying to back out because of the tech stock crash? Having already signed a contract, legally, *can* he back out? Or does he still want the company, but is just trying to lower the price?
Tech editor Adrian Weckler has a basic explainer about what’s going on and what to expect next.

An explainer on why Elon is backing away from Twitter and what happens next

Alan Holland had a steady, comfortable life as a lecturer in artificial intelligence in University College Cork. But in 2012, he left it all to try and build a startup specialising in procurement automation.
10 years on, that company, Keelvar, has just picked up its latest funding round of $24m, with plans to increase headcount at the firm to over 100.
Alan joins technology editor Adrian Weckler to discuss what it was like to leave the security of a college academic life for a startup. He also explains what's going to happen next in the supply chain crisis.

The €40m Cork startup that's helping to solve the supply chain crisis

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