On this week’s show, Brian Purcell meets the Dublin entrepreneur who is revolutionising frozen foods and bringing it back from the dead. Sam Dennigan is a grandson of the founder of Sam Dennigan and Company, a North Dublin-based firm specialising in fresh fruit and vegetables which employs 350 people, so he comes from a strong food business background. Art was his first love however, but working in the family business to make money to travel, he got the bug of business down in the...

On this week’s show, Ciara Donlon explains how her medical devices company has gone global in just three years and all from a difficult start when their original company name had Isis in its title! Ciara always dreamed of building a business of her own and in 2010, she set up a lingerie retail business in Ranelagh in Dublin but many women undergoing treatment for breast cancer came into her shop looking for a comfortable and feminine bra to wear post surgery. Theya Healthcare was born,...

Luke Mackey of the mobile ordering app, Bamboo, explains how his app is taking advantage of the time-poor 25-35 year old office workers who don't want to wait in line for their coffee and lunch. 'Why not save yourself an hour a week by ordering from your desk or phone?' he says and explains why their focus on the hyperlocal coffee and lunch market in is paying dividends and quickly expanding. For more: independent.ie/podcasts/ready-business

On this week's show, Brian Purcell meets the seventeen-year old tech prodigy who, despite facing his Leaving Cert in the next few months, has one eye already on a multi-million euro fund for his company qCrypt. His data encryption project was the 2017 winner of the BT Young Scientist Exhibition which he is now looking to commercialise and is set to be a game-changer in the data encryption industry. If the Collison brothers, Bill Gates or Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin can do it, then...

On this week's show, we speak to the Dubliner who has made two 30 Under 30 Lists and for two different industries. Simon Phelan's latest venture, Hometree, in the UK, is looking to disrupt the home services industry starting with gas boilers. The potential, he says, for changing how energy in the home is delivered and received is an exciting business that promises to shake up a traditional industry now and into the future. Having raised over €3m since the start of the year Phelan and...

This week we hear the inspiring story of the doctor, Johnny Walker, who, for a quarter of a century, has combined his medical practice as a radiologist along with the setting up of numerous, very successful digital health companies. If you think you’re busy, Johnny Walker’s story would put most of us to shame and his latest venture is called Jinga Life, a digital health record database that has global ambitions for digitising how we can all access our health data. For more:...

On this week's show, Brian Kenny of MiniCorp, joins Brian Purcell to discuss entrepreneurship, millennials, business passion and standing out from the crowd. "There's a reason I go around town on an electric skateboard and have a yellow iPhone with an orange strap," he says. "It’s 100% to get noticed and for people to ask ‘who is this guy and what the hell is he doing?’ I might look like an idiot but at least I stand out." For more: independent.ie/podcasts/ready-business

On this week's show, Ailbhe Keane of Izzy Wheels, talks about how her sister's spina bifida led to the creation of their company that combines disability and fashion and got them a spot on the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list. "My sister, Izzy, was always a stylish person but people would notice her wheelchair first and it didn’t reflect who she was. The wheels were a blank canvas just waiting for something to be done with. I thought, why not transform a medical device that has looked...

On this week’s show, we find out about the future of online supermarket shopping and how one Irish entrepreneur has developed a platform that promises to deliver your shopping in one hour. Devan Hughes is co-founder of Buymie which in just two years has raised over €800k in capital and is making serious waves in the online supermarket space. For more: independent.ie/podcasts/ready-business

On this week's show, Brian Purcell is joined by Mark Elliott, co-founder of Voyager IP which specialises in IT for yachts and cruise ships. Mark has some great insights into the ups and downs of running your own business including the time his parents lost the family home due to his Dad’s business going bust. "My father ran a printing press but when it ran into trouble, the banks foreclosed and you walked out the door of your house with your bags on your back. You just got on with it and I...

What is the secret to creating a great work environment and running a profitable business? It’s about developing strong, high-trust relationships and great businesses are built around this, says Bob Lee, author of The Trust Rules, who joins Brian Purcell on this week’s Ready Business podcast. “It’s about achieving your goals by helping other people achieve theirs. We all do our best work when we feel comfortable doing it,” Lee explains. “We achieve strong relationships outside of work, so...

On this week’s show, Brian Purcell finds out about the future of air travel and how your experience at Dublin airport is changing. We all have our gripes about queues, security and check-in when flying by plane, but how will technology impact our future travel and what can we expect in these security-conscious times? With 19,000 people working in Dublin airport it is a mini-city in its own right and Brian spent the day there speaking to the people involved in its day to day operations and...

Jules Coleman of Resi and former co-founder of Hassle, gives her top tips for Ready Business success. For more: independent.ie/podcasts/ready-business

'One night when I struggled to find a piano teacher in London I had a business idea for an Amazon of local services. But I was a management consultant and all I knew was how to make Powerpoint slides. I knew though I couldn’t be doing this job in fifteen years time.' On this week's show, Jules Coleman tells Brian Purcell how she moved to London and went from being a management consultant to setting up the online services platform, Hassle, and selling it for £27m in just five years. For...

Ian Lucey, founder and CEO of Lucey Technology with his top tips for Ready Business success.

On this week's show, Ian Lucey, founder of Lucey Technology and angel investor with the Lucey Fund talks to Brian Purcell about some of the most common mistakes start-ups make, and why there are so many badly funded start-ups in Ireland. "I never really understood start-ups until I actually got involved in one myself," says Lucey. "There's great positivity and lift around start-ups. They have passion and dreams and the really good people are busy doing stuff. But running companies is hard...

Luke Saunders, co-founder of Studyclix with his top tips for Ready Business success.

'Students live in an online world,' explains surf-loving, secondary school teacher Luke Saunders on this week's show. 'When I started teaching, I was shocked that nothing had changed since my time as a student.' And so Studyclix was born as an online tool to help teachers and students in their Junior and Leaving Certs. There's 120,000 students and 25,500 teachers using the service, but he still hasn't given up the teaching just yet. The future of education, he says, still comes from the...

On this week's show, Brian Purcell speaks to Chris Zook, author of the Founder's Mentality which asks why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Chris explains how three key elements make up the Founder's Mentality and if these can be observed, measured and maintained, then your business will have a good chance of succeeding. For more: independent.ie/podcasts/ready-business

For the final Ready Business of 2017, Brian Purcell looks back on the business year that was and looks ahead to 2018 a year that could see more uncertainty and headwinds for Irish business owners. Joining Brian on the Ready Business panel was economist, Jim Power, business coach, Paul Fagan, and ISME's Eilis Quinlan. For more: independent.ie/podcasts/ready-business

Jack Teeling of Teeling Whiskey gives his top three tips for Ready Business Success: 1. Be a sponge to opportunities 2. Don't over-engineer things, get out there and do it 3. Be decisive. Make your decision and move on For more: independent.ie/podcasts/ready-business

After only five years with Teeling Whiskey, Jack Teeling, the founder and chief executive has already ‘got one over’ his famous serial entrepreneur father, John Teeling, of Cooley Distillery fame. Son Jack won the top prize in the emerging category at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards for 2017, an award John was nominated for but never won. Now, as Jack drives Teeling Whiskey on to international success he is stepping out of the shadow of his dad, he tells Brian Purcell on this...

On this week's show, Brian Purcell was in Cavan for the launch of Cavan Innovation & Technology Centre (CITC)as the next location to be part of Vodafone and SIRO’s national Gigabit Hub Initiative, which offers a one Gigabit broadband connection to qualifying business hubs free of charge for two years. Speakers at the launch included Vincent Reynolds, CEO Cavan County Enterprise Board and CEO of the new Cavan Gigabit Hub, Richard Stafford, CEO Apri Data, Liam O’Brien, Director of Strategy...

Barbara Moynihan of OnYourFeet.ie gives her top three tips for Ready Business Success. For more: independent.ie/podcasts/ready-business