Siobhan Daily 
“The US market will not forgive your guesswork. It will reward your precision.” The simple truth for Irish founders is this: if you want a serious valuation, recurring revenue above 10 million euro, and a credible exit path, you almost always need a US story. The market is bigger, the budgets are higher, and the … Read more
“Enterprise growth will not come from more leads. It will come from more revenue per account.” The market is clear on one thing: ABM is not a marketing experiment anymore, it is a revenue strategy. Enterprise sales teams that pair strong outbound with focused Account-Based Marketing see higher deal sizes, cleaner pipelines, and better forecast … Read more
“The next Irish unicorn is more likely to come from a lab notebook than a dorm room pitch deck.” The Irish tech market is quietly shifting from pure software startups toward research-heavy companies born on campus. University spin-outs are moving from side show to pipeline, and investors are starting to treat them as a structured … Read more
“If your dev team ships features at the cost of their mental health, you are not growing a company, you are burning capital.” The market quietly started to price mental health into valuations years ago. You can see it in longer release cycles, calmer roadmaps, and founders who talk more about retention than raw headcount. … Read more
“The next unicorn will not win by talking more. It will win by interrupting less.” Investors have started to discount companies that live on Zoom. Remote-first startups that switch 60 to 70 percent of their internal communication to async often report faster ship cycles, lower attrition, and cleaner decision logs within twelve months. The market … Read more
“Irish angels will either fuel the next decade of tech growth, or watch foreign capital set the terms.” The short answer: angel investing in Ireland is bigger, more organized, and more competitive than five years ago, but it is still small compared to the weight of multinational tech in the country. Round sizes are up, … Read more
“The office is no longer a building. It is a negotiation between talent, capital, and time.” The market now treats work models like pricing strategy: pick the wrong one, and your CAC-to-salary ratio explodes while your best people quietly reply to recruiters on LinkedIn. Across tech and startup roles, hybrid teams are showing a small … Read more
“Every hype cycle ends the same way: the tourists leave, the true builders stay, and the price of entry quietly drops for the next wave.” The metaverse did not die. The market just stripped out the premium on buzz. Capital shifted from big, branded worlds into quieter infrastructure plays, industrial use cases, and boring pipes. … Read more
“The next big productivity gain in tech won’t come from AI. It will come from how long founders can keep their backs and brains working at 80%+ every day.” Investors quietly track one metric that never shows up in a pitch deck: how long the founding team can stay sharp, focused, and injury free while … Read more
“The content management system is no longer a website tool. It is an infrastructure decision that shows up on the P&L.” The short version: enterprises are moving from traditional WordPress to headless CMS because content now needs to feed websites, mobile apps, in-store screens, email, and AI assistants from a single source of truth. The … Read more
