Podcasts about aine mulloy

A 54 Hour Sprint to Drive Positive Change Imagine dedicating a weekend to transforming an idea into a tangible business, surrounded by experienced mentors, industry leaders, and a community of like-minded women, all committed to making a real impact. This is the essence of Techstars Startup Weekend Women Dublin, where female entrepreneurs come together to build enterprises that tackle pressing challenges in society and business. Taking place from 21-23 March at Accenture Song, Dublin, this intensive event brings together women of diverse backgrounds - some stepping into entrepreneurship for the first time, others looking to take their experience in a new direction. The theme, "Business for Good," reflects a growing movement where commercial success and social impact go hand in hand. And, even though it says women in the title, everyone is welcome! For more information Eventbrite Booking Startup Weekend Championing Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurship In today's business landscape, sustainability, ethical leadership, and social impact are no longer afterthoughts, they are driving forces for change. Female-led startups are leading the way, tackling challenges from climate change to financial inclusion, from education to ethical AI. Caitlin Hafer, the lead organiser and founder of What the Hack, has shaped this year's event around that very idea. "Entrepreneurship isn't just about profit, it's about purpose," she says. "This weekend is about proving that business can create real, positive change." The People Behind the Weekend Pulling together an event like this takes a team of experienced organisers, dedicated volunteers, and hands-on mentors. Alongside Caitlin, the planning team, Israel Ngombo, Deirdre McCarthy, Sharon Ramsey, Miren M. Samper, and Poorvi Gupta have worked to create a weekend that's both challenging and inspiring for participants. Mentors play a crucial role across the weekend, offering real-world advice, strategic insights, and the occasional reality check. This year, participants will have the opportunity to work with Aine Mulloy, Eugene Mitchell, Gloria Rull, Jenny Ervine, Laura Enache, Lauren O'Reilly, Leyla Karaha, Melissa Roa, Mike O'Dea, Sarah Fleisberg, and Sorcha Mulligan. (I'll also be there, bringing my own experience as a business mentor, having previously served as a judge at last year's event). Speaking of judges, Sunday's pitch session will be the defining moment of the weekend, where teams present their businesses to an expert panel. This year, the judging panel includes Anne Brady, Fiona Nagle, Raisa Pokrovskaya, and Mairin Murray - leaders in business, investment, and social impact. Their role? To offer constructive feedback, challenge assumptions, and highlight which ideas have real potential. What Happens Over the Weekend? Friday night is all about getting started. Participants pitch their ideas in one-minute presentations, after which teams form around the strongest concepts. Saturday is the big workday. With guidance from mentors, teams refine their business models, customer validation strategies, and product concepts, ensuring that they are building something that can work beyond the weekend. Sunday brings the final push. Teams polish their pitches before presenting them to the judges and a wider audience. Some will win prizes. Others will walk away with something just as valuable, a business idea with the potential to grow into something much bigger. "We're looking for ideas that go beyond the weekend," says Caitlin, "it's not just about innovation, it's about creating something with lasting impact." Why It Matters: Closing the Funding Gap Despite the success of female entrepreneurs, access to funding remains a significant challenge. Globally, startups founded solely by women received just 2% of venture capital funding in 2023. In Europe, that figure was 1.8%. In Ireland, the numbers are improving. A Tech Ireland report found that one in four startups that raised investment in 2022 had a fe...

Catherine is here today with Aine Mulloy. Aine Mulloy has a background in the humanities and digital technologies with an MA in Literature and Publishing, and a postgraduate in Digital Marketing. She initially worked with a leading publishing company before making the move to GirlCrew as co-founder. GirlCrew is a platform for women to make new friends. Not keen on going to a concert solo? Find a friend with GirlCrew. Want to book a vacation but your friends are all coupled up? Find a group of awesome girls to travel with at GirlCrew. Whatever you can dream up, you can do with the GirlCrew. GirlCrew began one Friday night, when Elva Carri really wanted to go out dancing, but had no one to go out with. All her friends were either too busy or tired. Believing there had to be other women in the same position, she put a call out for some platonic dancing buddies on Tinder. She had no idea she would quickly garner more than 100 enthusiastic matches. She added everyone to a secret Facebook group in Dublin, where she was based, and voila GirlCrew was born. Having gained lots of new friends, and a jam-packed social calendar, Elva was going to need help. She teamed up with Aine and Pamela, where the three co-founders began growing GirlCrew groups in cities all over the world. There were a lot of late nights in the early days, but spaghetti bolognese got the trio through everything. Find Out More About Aine Mulloy Check Out GirlCrew's Website Follow GirlCrew on Facebook Follow Aine Mulloy on Twitter @AineMulloy Follow Aine on Instagram @aine.simone Now it's time to tap into creative human being enjoy!! Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS

Catherine is here today with Aine Mulloy. Aine Mulloy has a background in the humanities and digital technologies with an MA in Literature and Publishing, and a postgraduate in Digital Marketing. She initially worked with a leading publishing company...

Aine Mulloy has a background in the humanities and digital technologies with an MA in Literature and Publishing, and a postgrad in Digitial Marketing. She initially worked with a leading publishing company before making the move to GirlCrew as co-founder.

Aine Mulloy is one of three co-founders of female led tech company, GirlCrew, an online social network for women. Join us as we chat with Aine to find out what is her guiding principle? What mistakes she feels young tech companies often make? And how she deals with any fears she may have, despite running such a successful, ground breaking company. A special thanks to Sharon Hughes and DIT Student's Union for the use of Aine's TEDx talk.  Opening and closing credits music was Someways by Nicolai Heidlas.

GirlCrew - it's a global online platform and app that helps women make new friends, wherever they are in the world. It all started when a young woman, left alone due to coupled-up friends, needed someone to go to a concert with. A short note posted online, in search of a buddy, turned into GirlCrew. It has since saved women from bad dates, helped people overcome challenges at work and even sourced witnesses for weddings. Meet its co-founders, yes co-founders, because three heads are better than one. Margaret E Ward talks to Elva Carri, Aine Mulloy and Pamela Newenham who reveal their unlikely paths to entrepreneurship, which involved making and selling draught excluders and selling raffle tickets for a box of chocolates. Listen to three inspiring women talk about taking on Mark Zuckerberg and the world, one meet-up at a time. They discuss their strategies, teamwork and making big business decisions over social media.

This week we have a very special Spotlight on Sport, current World Record Marathon holder Paula Radcliffe discusses career highlights, doping in sport and retirement goals. Niamh is also joined in studio by funny woman Alison Spittle and GirlCrew co-founder Aine Mulloy to talk ouija boards, boomerang generations and getting sacked! Don't miss it...

Pamela Newenham, one of the three founders of GirlCrew, tells us how a secret Facebook group for women to make friends has turned into a platform with over 100,000 members across the world. We discuss the power of networking, meeting Mark Zuckerberg and their move to Silicon Valley. The GirlCrew App Hootenanny is happening from the 17th - 20th August, with 19 events over 4 days, including tech talks, brunch, parties and speakers including Microsoft's MD Cathriona Hallahan and much more! Find out more by clicking here   Key takeaways [1:56] How not being able to find people to go on a girls night out dancing resulted in hacking Tinder and forming a secret Facebook group. How founders Elva Carri, Aine Mulloy and Pamela Newenham came together. [4:34] Pamela's journey from being a journalist interviewing entrepreneurs to becoming one.  [7:05] How having defined roles means they work well together as a team. They have specific areas they specialise in and there is no overlap which helps to keep things harmonious.  [9:40] The challenges they came across including having no experience in tech or coding and wanted to bring out an app. Having no experience hiring was also challenging, it was harder than they thought to hire developer. [12:25] High points have included being selected, from 220 entrants, to represent Europe at the SXSW festival in Texas. GirlCrew was filmed by Facebook as one of their success stories. They met Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Yes, he was wearing a grey t-shirt! [17:30] Pamela's advice around growing and scaling a company would be to talk to people who have already done it. Trust your own gut instinct when you get conflicting advice. If you’re a tech startup, go to Silicon Valley [19:04] What helps make Silicon Valley a great place to do business and grow is that everyone is keen to help, to put you in touch with people and introduce you. Although soon moving there, GirlCrew will always keep a development team in Ireland. [22:40] Everything is about networking and talking to people. Real connections are made offline whether friendships or professional networks. Girlcrew are all about meeting people offline and making real friendships.  Get out of the buildingClick To Tweet [23:43] Launch of new app. Pop up shop starting Thurday 17th in Temple Bar, Dublin. GirlCrew are having an 'App Hootenanny' with 19 events over 4 days [25:45] Advice to people thinking of starting a business: 'Jump in, just do it!'Click To Tweet   Links to things mentioned in this episode GirlCrew.com Girlcrew App Hootenanny GirlCrew on Facebook, GirlCrew on Twitter GirlCrew on Instagram SXSW Festival Enterprise Ireland Teamer  

Girl Crew the Irish Tech startup founded by Elva Carri, Aine Mulloy and Pamela Newenham are off to SXSW and before they headed off Ronan met up with Aine and Pamela. They tell Ronan how Girl Crew started including how they joined forces at surf summit, that their membership is growing, and their Tinder prank which got picked up on Reddit. They also tell me that while they are at SXSW they will be crowning the Queen of Tech and doing a soft launch of their web app.