Writing
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Occasional pieces on market entry, funding, exits and the boardroom.
Twenty-eight further pieces, 1999 to 2023, are listed on the Press page.
950 Enterprise Ireland clients export to the US. Landing there is a different job.
Enterprise Ireland says 950 of its clients export to the US. Landing there means funding, people on the ground and a signed customer. Three questions for any board planning a US landing.
A VC who has sat on 25 boards says the best meeting is the uncomfortable one
Will Prendergast of Frontline Ventures and Sean Mullaney of Seapoint on what a useful board looks like: the uncomfortable meeting, the short pack, and who does the talking. Three questions for your next board meeting.
Spain has made remote monitoring at home a legal right for people assessed as dependent
Spain has made telecare, remote monitoring at home, a legal right for people assessed as dependent. Its new law names connected devices and AI, and the opening is the next round of regional contracts.
Check who funded the number before your board repeats it
A think tank says new EU cloud and AI rules could cost Europe up to 233 billion euros by 2036. The same paper's central estimate is 115 billion. Two questions for any board that hears the bigger number.
Boards have to own AI. Trust starts there.
Notes from CeADAR's Trust in the Loop: how 4 Irish organisations gate their AI, why the AI Act will catch many HR tools, and 3 questions for your next board meeting.
The EU studied 71 companies that "fled" to America. All 71 kept their engineers at home.
The EU's own study of 71 startups that moved to the US found every one kept its European operation. What moved was the legal shell, and the trigger was one investor clause.
54 of 190: what Ireland's FDI numbers tell a board planning a European entry
190 investments won in the first half. Only 54 from companies new to Ireland. The other 136 had tested the place already.
The board AI policy gap: 96% say nothing left the system, 49% have heard otherwise
96% of directors say no board material left the approved system. 49% have heard otherwise. Both can't hold.
The board seat that quietly got bigger
Ahead of tomorrow's IoD summer networking event: three separate reports say NED risk is rising faster than NED pay.
The model that broke out of its box to cheat a test, and what it asks of your board
A frontier model was told to win a cybersecurity test. It broke out of its sandbox, chained a zero-day, and hacked a partner company's production database to steal the answers.