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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

Right.

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

But in that moment, I just knew that it was almost like a deja vu moment, to be honest.

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

Do you know what I mean?

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

It was Luke.

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

It was the idea.

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

It was the branding.

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

It was the depth that he had kind of thought about with it, if that makes sense.

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

He wasn't just up there.

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

I think when you look at it, especially as I get deeper into it and I'm kind of a part of the ecosystem now, shall we say, that

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

You kind of have 80% of people who are maybe trying to extend college or have watched a Facebook film and think this will be great fun.

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

And then you have the 20% of people who are genuinely driven by proving themselves, proving trauma wrong, proving their background wrong, proving...

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

imposter syndrome wrong in a way that they're delivering the words with venom almost and I don't say that in a bad way about Luke I believed every word he said and I wanted to work with him I wanted to work for him to be honest at the time do you know what I mean it was like look at selling to government and all that stuff there's money in it and it's decent but is it exciting it's not that's the truth of it very long sales cycles very drawn out kind of

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

deals and yeah something in me just said go and approach luke i did and i started working for him very quickly we got a system created very quickly to make make it successful and what we're doing just lining up new people for for bamboo to go into some news new stores so anyone not familiar with bamboo just describe it really quickly as to what what it was

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

Yeah, it's a pre-order app, essentially in its simplest form.

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

It allowed you to order lunch from multiple places all over Ireland.

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

End user gets a notification, your food ready, walk in, walk out, and the payment's handled.

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

And loyalty as well.

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

And, like, sounds simple in hindsight, but at the time, like, it was...

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

we really had a huge impact on businesses.

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

Like, you know what I mean?