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Conor Moules

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843 total appearances

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The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

And I watched him build that

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

up in a way that was just in hindsight looking back on it i just don't know how he managed to do it like and so i grew up around entrepreneurial people and i'd also seen the downsides so like his business got hugely affected by covid or sorry not covid by recession in 2008 and

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

of crumbled down a little bit um or a lot and i watched him pull himself back through that and to rebuild it again now to a point where it's uber successful and interestingly daryl works for him today as a man all these years later that's cool very cool i love that great yeah i think that's that's the one trait and resilience i see over and over is

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Yeah.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

And I think that's kind of where you need to be.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

I think you kind of need a level of naivety to do it in the first place.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Like you need to be a little bit delusional, but you need to have the right people around you to help shape that delusion into reality.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

I think like startup or business in general, it's kind of like a kid, like it takes a village.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

I've been very lucky with people that I kind of have around me.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

But yeah, to go back and answer your initial question, in

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

I met my partner in Australia, Lisa, and Lenny, who I mentioned, Lisa became pregnant with Lenny in Australia.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

So we decided to come home.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

And I kind of, at that point, I had, I'm like really thankful for it, but I'd been given the insight of business intelligence.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

I had seen a wide spectrum of businesses and their data and why they were successful, why they weren't successful.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

So I kind of learned a large part of

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

trend analysis, if that makes sense.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

Yeah.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

And so I'd understood I wanted to do my own thing.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

The thing that was kind of fascinating me from the BI world with the data essentially was how big a component location intelligence was to business success.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE502 - How He Turned 173 Salon Conversations Into a Startup That Raised €4.9M | Conor Moules

In my head at the time, the dream was maybe open like a coffee shop or something retail-y felt more attainable than technology.