Last autumn, the Austrian e-commerce start-up Refurbed began to trade into Ireland. As the pandemic raged, the company went through the entire launch remotely, says its chief executive and co-founder Kilian Kaminski, joining this week’s podcast on a video call from Vienna. Although he has yet to travel to Dublin, Kaminski says the Irish market is proving promising – both in its own right and as an EU-based launchpad into the trickier post-Brexit UK market. “We are an online marketplace for refurbished electronic products, which means that we bring a different range of products from smartphones, to tablets, notebooks, but…

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