Since starting MiniCorp [https://www.minicorphq.com/] over seven years ago, we have done little if nothing when it comes to outbound sales. That's ridiculous and I'm kicking myself that I haven't reacted to this sooner. Let me explain: Inbound Sales When building a business, I've always tried to focus
Wow, did you do something with your hair? You look fantastic. I know, I'm a smoothy. Ok ok, on to the good stuff... I often think about "What makes a great business?". It's a poor question. It should be, "Who makes a great business?". Here are some of the characteristics
Well hello there wonderful human, When you come up with a fresh idea do you ever think, "would people actually use this or is this just something that I find interesting?". It's a great question. In fact, it's an extremely healthy question as it could save you a lot of
Hey hey! Oh my goodness, did you do something with your hair? You look fantastic! But let's be honest, it's easy to polish a diamond. Ok, pleasantries aside, one of the top questions I get asked is "How did you find and land your first client?". After successfully starting and
What's going on you beautiful human! After running a digital product agency for over 5 years, I often get asked "Aren't agencies super expensive?" or "What's the benefit of hiring an agency?". Let me explain: You've got $50,000-$100,000 in the bank and an idea that you believe
A quick update on what my attention is currently focused on as I prepare for my first marathon, get prepared for a business development trip to New York and learn about the story of Jack Ma and Alibaba.
Owning a product agency can seem like a perfect conduit to launch my own ideas but it can often end in frustrations.
Over the past year, I've become stronger, happier and healthier and I owe a lot to focusing on competing against myself rather than against others.
During a recent business development trip to New York, I stumbled across lots of challenges on how to manage my time and be effective with my team in Dublin. In this episode, I break down the main stumbling blocks and some easy solutions I've already identified to keep them in
Robbie is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Kollect, the first real pay-as-you-go waste collection solution.
I’ve started the process of growing MiniCorp outside of Europe and into New York.
Brian is a serial technology entrepreneur turned venture capital investor.
It can be extremely challenging to understand what you or things are worth and what should be charged.
I talk through one of the darkest moments I’ve lived through and how it’s vitally important to set up your business in a practical and healthy way that allows you to grow and fall back on others.
At a recent Startup Grind event, I got to speak about my entrepreneurship adventure to date. The ups and the downs and everything in between.
I walk through how I’ve introduced strong goal setting into my daily life and what the effect has been so far in 2019.
In 2018, I ran 1,300 kilometers, read some really interesting books and my eldest daughter, Lilly, started school. I spoke at lots of events, mentored some amazing young companies and grew MiniCorp further.
In this episode of the Building a Product series, I talk about the person behind the idea.
Sean Judge is the entrepreneur in residence at Accenture where he helps facilitate the connection between young startups and Accenture.
After a relaxing break with the family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧, we’re back to regularly scheduled podcasts 🎧!
I interview Donal Cahalane. DC most recently founded Republic of Work. A co-working office in Cork, Ireland where you can get your most productive, innovative and forward thinking work done.
In this episode, I sit down with Eoin Bara [https://twitter.com/eoinbara?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] . Eoin most recently founded MĂłr Irish Gin [http://www.moririshgin.com/]. A handcrafted wild berry gin that is exported across 15 countries. Before MĂłr Irish Gin, Eoin founded a
I talk through product iterations and how I build, measure and react.
Adrian and I chat about the importance of building strong relationships.
I talk through the challenges, failures, and successes that have hit me over the past month.
In this episode, I interview Colin Harmon, the founder of 3FE coffee.
Dan Nudget is the co-founder of Ambr Eyewear. A company that creates beautifully crafted glasses that fight digital eye strain by blocking blue light.
Keeping track and managing inbound requests can be difficult. If they accumulate, it can often feel like quicksand. Here's how I deal with tasks, requests and make sure I'm still getting things done. Links: * Asana [http://headspace.com/] * Google Suite [https://gsuite.google.com/] * Twitter — https://twitter.com/bkenny * Instagram
Time is my most precious resource that cannot be renewed.
Pat is a best selling author, corporate speaker, world traveler and high-performance coach.
I set some new goals last month both personally and commercially and it’s time to see how I performed.
A short list of my top 5 most inspirational people
In this episode I chat with a hughly inspiring entrepreneur — Louise Dunne. Louise is the CEO, and founder of Glissed.
MiniCorp’s branding hasn’t evolved in 3 years, until now. This is the story of how we are rebranding.
At MiniCorp, we recently moved from our own private office into the new WeWork in Dublin.
Big elements of my life are a strong sense adventure and the achievement or progression towards my lifelong goals.
Luke is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of Bamboo, a mobile app that allows you to order and pay in advance for great cafés and restaurants relieving the need to wait.
It seems like a no-brainer, but there are huge upsides to really focusing on treating people right.
A product state of the union in my head. I talk about Revolut, travel AI, wellbeing, and education.
Clawing back time by making your processes as streamlined and efficient as possible is something we’re always looking to accomplish at MiniCorp. We want to focus on building great products and not on the monotonous tasks in business. In this episode I talk through some of the best tools
Over the past month, I’ve spent a lot of time tracking and reflecting on my growth as a husband, father, and entrepreneur.
I talk through my experiences and also the key difference between a founder and a CEO.
I personally have started to adopt an ever-increasing practice, meditation, to help me clear my mind, stay focused and how my body is feeling.
Sometimes, signing new clients can seem like a dark art.
I was a hardcore hustler and have now done a complete 180 to take time in my life to understand what is happening and make better-educated decisions on my future.
In this episode, I talk through the items I carry and use on a daily basis. I minimize clutter but also try to stay as productive as possible.
In part two, I talk about my experiences with managing cash flow, understanding your burn rate and what to look out for when searching for a really good marketer for your company.
When I started MiniCorp I spent about 7 minutes coming up with the name and 30 seconds finding a logo on Iconfinder.
My experiences of getting your first customer, it’s challenges and how valuable ownership of a business is.
How I stand out from the crowd and help people to promote me to their connections.
I'm always looking for ways to optimize and track my life. Here are 3 apps that help me to just that!
I discuss my new daily rituals and how they have affected my overall mood, growth, and energy over the past month.
How you articulate what you do or what problem you are solving, greatly affects how likely and how well people can connect you to potential new business and opportunities. To me, my ability to connect people together is contingent on understanding what you do or what your product does. And
Losing one of them can often feel like losing a small piece of the company, but it isn't.
In order to maximize my potential each day, I've started researching more about morning and evening routines.
I do not touch my iPhone X, Apple Watch or laptop for the first hour of the day. I hang out with my family for as long as I can and I write out my todo list for the day.
I’ve only recently understood how much impact the things I own have on me. I can’t remember where I read or seen it, but I remember someone explaining that if you placed everything you own into a backpack, consider the sheer weight of it on your shoulders.
With some recent events, I’ve spent some time thinking about how it can often feel as though life is lived in chapters. It doesn’t feel so linear, but segmented. It helps solidify my opinion that growth and decline often happens in segments.
Episode 16 of The Brian Kenny Podcast. I talk about the wonders of networking, sales and how I should really start taking better care of myself.
Episode 15 of The Brian Kenny Podcast. I talk about where I've disappeared to, big clients and bitcoin.
One day of bad eating has lead to a demmise of eating healthy and how I'm currently making macro decisions and putting out micro fires.
Coworking in Republic of Work in Cork, Ireland and staying at our favourite hotel with my family.
You should always follow up after a meeting and leadership is helping others to discover something you know.
I get my portrait taken by the amazing Nathalie Marquez Courtney and talk about my new podcast, The Brian Kenny Show.
Pitching to potential clients and how paying people on time has such huge benefits.
I need to stay on top of my game to help nuture MiniCorp's growth.
Keeping healthy with some cold pressed juice from the guys over at Greenbeards.
I push myself forward to challenge myself and how you should make sure you're at the right parties.
Without taking on risk, it can be difficult to grow and expand.
A quick hop over to Shoreditch in London to catch up on Unity Street and drink some amazing coffee in the grind.
The importance of business referrals, setting your own standards and how I should be willing to change to solve problems.
I got a chance to sit down with the guys from The Startup Van and chat about my journey, MiniCorp and the new app I’m building — Unity Street.
The grind pays off in the long term and how taking risks challenges yourself.
Telling a story trumps volume when creating content and I'm learning to deconstruct peoples wants.
Boosted boarding around Dublin in episode 14 and trying to get as much out of every day as possible.
I talk about how not following through costs me money, being busy is not the goal and I'm really enjoying creating this podcast.
I talk about the how beer and pointless meetings are having a huge negative impact on me and how I'm going to solve this.
I talk about the benefits of having daily standups and over communicating with the team.
Decoupling myself from MiniCorp and how important building relationships is to your overall goals.
I talk about how I need to become a better communicator, scaling MiniCorp and creating content.
Mustard believes great engineers and developers should not have to compromise on how they spend their professional lives. Their mission is to deliver life changing opportunities to the most talented, hard working people, through a simple, elegant marketplace.
The meaning of the word entrepreneur has evolved. How entrepreneurship is defined now is drastically different to how it was 5+ years ago. The wikipedia definition even lends a notion to it’s definition being outdated: > Entrepreneurship has traditionally been defined as the process of designing, launching and running a
Nudiefoods is your local fruit and veg delivery service. Bringing you the freshest food from the market straight to your door.
Hiring the right team to help build your idea into something tangible is a huge decision.
Fillit is an online platform that connects people and spaces. We cater for people looking for the perfect temporary venue for events, pop-ups, retail, promotions and everything in-between across Ireland.
With Flipdish people can discover restaurants in their area and order deliveries to their home or office in as few as two taps. Flipdish is based out of Cluster in Dublin, Ireland. Order deliveries from over 600 restaurants in Dublin, the two tap food app.
Huma is based out of Dog Patch Labs in Dublin, Ireland. Huma identifies your strengths and working preferences, bringing internships and graduate jobs you’ll love, right to your inbox.
Much of what we create is fuelled by money and timelines. That’s a worrying thought.
This is a short post about how difficult it can be to join visions with others whilst impossible to build anything great on your own.
If the goal of our lives is to be happy, why do a lot of people spend it complaining?
It almost sounds cliche at this stage but defining my own hours is probably the single biggest contributor to my productivity.
I’m very proud to have worked with some amazing people. It’s still humbling to know tens of millions of people will get to use the software that I and the team created.