Rena Maycock

The Entrepreneur Experience offers that retreat-style distance from the reality and breakneck pace of a start-up, something that is absolutely invaluable. Hopefully, the participants at this year’s event felt the same.

Budget Day was initially disappointing, with red tape keeping tax measures intended to support start-ups accessible only to large corporations. But amendments to the Finance Bill show the mood music is changing.

Ahead of this year’s Entrepreneur Experience, event co-captain Rena Maycock reflects on what she learned from participating in the event, explaining that what she found in Ballymaloe was a carefully curated collection of givers.

In many cases, businesses are closing not for lack of custom but for lack of dependable staff. The lost tradition of teenagers taking up part-time jobs is doing our children no favours.

While SVB had a very limited presence here, the worry is not only the contagion across the banking sector but the trickle-down effect the withdrawal of tech’s biggest bank will have on wider investors, who were already jittery.

Putting real power in the hands of women is creating a system where they can start and own their own companies. That requires a seismic rethink in how VCs and our state development agency provide funding.

Boards can play a critical role in the success of companies. But how do you know when it is time to put a board together? And when that time comes, what do you need to consider?

Have the events of 2022 been enough to shake labour market confidence in Big Tech and could 2023 be the year where indigenous tech leapfrogs multinationals as first choice for talent?

There is a monstrous skills deficit in Irish technology. Fixing the problem will take more than vague aspiration on the part of the government.

The government's approach to taxation is reminiscent of Louis XIV's first minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who said "the trick is to pluck as many feathers as possible with the smallest amount of hissing". When is this goose going to hiss?