Connor Murphy ☘️ Bridge 🌁
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Unlocking Network Advantage @BrdgApp . Prev Founder @Datahug (acq. @SAP ), MD/VP @Techstars , MC @PA_Consulting , Eng @SunMicrosystems , ex Jamaican Fire Brigade.
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You won't find this feature on LinkedIn 🤐
If you have ever tried to raise money or sell into target clients then you will love this🎯❤️
@brdgapp
now lets you you see who has the most connections to any network 🚀
We are only just getting started 😉
#NetworkBetter
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Investors who make the first / earliest commits, often without asking ‘who else has committed’, are the hidden stars of pre-seed/seed. They don’t always get mentioned in the final fundraising announcements, but they are the spark that gives the whole round momentum. 🙏🏽 🦸♀️ 🦸♂️
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A huge congrats to
#WebSummit
on their 110m+ deal with Lisbon. My thesis is that Web Summit is already a unicorn worth €1 billion, probably closer to €2 billion. Here’s why:
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Attention Founders - I cannot emphasise this enough - send updates to mentors and investors. I just got one and it made me realise I could make 3 quality intros for their problem. Such a high leverage way to get help and grow your business.
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"The next challenge is to encourage companies here to adopt a Silicon Valley mindset – to scale up rather than selling out at what is still a relatively early stage"! What a crock of condescending BS from the
@IrishTimes
implying that Pointy was not ambitious enough.
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Sometimes you meet some Tier 1 Douchebags in VC. Recently a ‘tier 1’ firm did a real deep dive at a great company I know, then invested in a competitor a few weeks later, then magically that competitor surfaces using almost the same deck for their next round!
#wrongMove
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Last week we hired someone 4,757 km away in Montreal, This week it was someone who is 1.7KM away in Bray.
I've met neither of them in person. The world is getting smaller faster. Geography is becoming history.
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We just heard that the
@SEAI_ie
deep retrofit grant just got pulled today and supposedly the CEO of SEAI just Quit. This is an absolute cluster f**k for everyone who is mid build (inc. us). We are investing in making our homes more energy efficient and this is a massive hit.
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Spoke to 2 friends in Dublin and Berlin who are moving their families to Lisbon this week and another who just moved there. Cities like Lisbon could be big winners in a remote world as talent gets decoupled from where their job is
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Covid has some positives - German lawyers magically found a way I did not have to notarise something in person. Turns out a scanned signature and email can help close a Series B. Madness :)
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Just looking at all my most successful companies (from an investment value pov)... in every case the CEO is an immigrant living and working in another country. Every country should be optimising to attract and embrace immigrants. People who leave everything are driven.
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The best early stage startup investment strategy I know is to be as helpful as possible. Really, deeply, genuinely helpful. Especially you have zero financial stake in a company. It comes back to you 100x.
#GiveFirst
is my thesis.
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I think I just saw the best startup pitch of my life. Best... Because I never wanted the call to end as the founders just had me smiling the whole time with their vision, energy and togetherness
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Couldn’t be more excited to launch our
@brdgapp
browser extension on
@ProductHunt
today! It allows you to see your network in the browser.
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The most tiring part of running a company is the lack of sleep - not from working late - but more from thinking late as the brain seems to have all the best ideas around 3am :)
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Design and build hardwear? Sell it to 20,000 US mom & pop retailers in the US with only an Irish based sales team? Impossible :) Google acquires
@pointy
for $163M :) Kudos
@mark_cummins
and the team
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- Have genius product idea, get very excited
- Sit down to write the spec
- Realise it was actually a terrible idea when you get into the details
- Go for a long walk, cook dinner, listen to a podcast
- Repeat
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Stop building dumb spreadsheets & pipelines of people you want to meet (i.e. Customers, Investors, etc..)
Smart Pipeline v0.1 is now live... and it already feels like a gamechanger 🔥❤️
Watch this to see the future of network-led sales & fundraising
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The serendipity of Berlin is magical
Not yet here 24 hours
Investor secured.
Angel deal sourced.
Learnt new GTM tactic.
PortCo got 7 fig TS.
None of it scheduled or expected.
Excited for Day 2 👀
❤️ Berlin
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Congrats Ambassador ❤️
#proudHusband
Ambassador McGarry presented her credentials to President of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset, during a ceremony at the Federal Palace in Berne yesterday. President Berset and Ambassador McGarry discussed shared interests and the warm bilateral relationship between 🇨🇭 and 🇮🇪
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Wow - that was a nice first! Getting a personalised deck from a $1B+ VC Fund explaining why you should take a meeting with them and outlining their investment thesis in your company. More of that please :)
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The Irish gov promoted an environmental grant that encouraged homeowners to go out of pocket by approx 2k euros to qualify! Here is the kicker… the government knew the budget was not there for months while still falsely boasting of their support for a greener future! (thread)
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10 years since we first launched
@datahug
(and won the startup prize) at
@WebSummit
! Thanks to everyone along the way as we literally knew nothing, had no network, and had to figure out everything as we went.
Excited to have the chance to go again :)
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Great catching up with Shane from
@ScrapingHub
- $12M in ARR, 180 fully remote staff, 100% bootstrapped. Today, Scrapinghub is one of the largest fully remote companies, growing by over 50 % per year with 2k customers and a 1M developers! Did I mention Shane is based in Cork :)
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First time tweeting from my couch in 6 months ;) Moving into our newly ‘almost fully renovated’ 1930’s house this weekend after getting everything out of storage - very exciting :)
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I bridged great friend A to another great friend B
B bridged A to their friends C and D
B also bridged A to E
ACD are now cofounders. E is investing and also bridged them to F who is leading their $2m Seed.
Nothing compounds like your network.
#BuildBridges
#GiveFirst
❤️
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Working Remotely = 10x better weather!
By avoiding the fixed morning and evening commutes you can chose when to be outside, allowing you to avoid bad weather, and only go outside when the weather suits.
Works particularly well if async & using rain radar :)
@chris_herd
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Travel is the greatest education, adventure and experience. No idea how my parents did it, but they ‘hitch hiked’ with 3 young kids EVERYWHERE. I just got a bDay present of my first passport.They could just about afford it as they worked for Aer Lingus
#standby
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Remote working allows ‘work-life-blend’. 20 mins of highly productive work. 10 minute break for quality life time with my favourite co-worker. Rinse and repeat ;) The future of work will be increasingly remote, IMO the upsides outweigh the negatives
#BYOE
(environment)
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Accidentally took someone’s seat at a random coffee shop this morning, apologised, he recognised the Techstars logo, turns out he is a VC and 6 intros later I have a new BFF :)
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I’m 3 weeks into trying to open a business bank account... the most backwards, antiquated and slow moving pain in the arse in business. Old school banks seem to actively want your first experience with them to be absolute crap. This edition of
@TheEconomist
is my weekend therapy
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We’ve been remote since day 1.
It just makes so much sense when it comes to building a global team and product.
Our last 2 hires were in Venezuela and the Philippines
Doing interviews this week with amazing candidates in Lagos and Berlin
Talent is universal!
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There is no better pub than a Berlin Spati on a Monday night :)
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Very sad day as my beautiful and kind mother-in-law passed away today. We are all devastated and thanks to all the amazing nurses, doctors and carers at the HSE for all the kind support to Aoife, Liam, Niamh and the whole family.
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Loving this book by
@DavidEpstein
- having started my career working on 20 very different projects over 6 years, from how the Jamaican Fire Brigade works to automating Computational Chemistry at Pfizer, I’ve been addicted to ‘specialising as a generalist’ ever since :)
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Team is now 13 strong ... and I’ve got 9 more people that I’d love to make offers to.
I spend 10% of my time (every week) talking to amazing people all over the world. It’s a very similar process to early stage investing as you are trying to find what is not obvious to others
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I think branding is already the next big differentiatior in tech. As technology and products becomes more commoditised, branding will increasingly be your long term moat
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The Future of Work is Decentralised ✅
This does NOT mean you will be working in isolation ❌
In fact, Decentralisation means the opposite 🔁
You will be collaborating with
- more people🙋♂️👋
- more organisations 🏢👔
- in more places📍🗺
- accross more time zones ⏰⌚️
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What a fantastic week at
#WebSummit
in Lisbon. Had not laughed or talked as much in 2 years. Voice is gone, sleep is needed, and craic was mighty:
Thanks to the whole team for another amazing experience and was so great to see so many people IRL - often for the first time
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I think
@Calendly
makes it so much easier to connect with people.
I'm always a little confused by those who complain that it seems too impersonal when the alternative is endless back and forths that waste everyones time.
How is that a better experience?
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FB just reminded me that this time 5 years ago I randomly ended up driving around Dublin in Elon Musks Tesla.. before even more randomly later ending up in a party back at his hotel room. The serendipity of
@WebSummit
cannot be underestimated :)
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Delighted to welcome
@jiteshluthra
from
@BlumeVentures
to the team.
Jitesh has lived and breathed Bridge as a Super Connector for the past year. His deep desire to help people be successful is inspiring.
If you build networks professionally you need to chat to Jitesh 👋
aims to do that.. and more.
I have been an early user for a while now --- and liked it so much that I "bridged" the gap and hopped on the
@ConnorPM
train.
Building a product for yourself is the best way to build 😃
5/n
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I’m pulling together a $36 MILLION syndicate round to do a little PE deal. I reckon we could get an easy 100x uplift in a matter or days :)
#BillionNotMillion
Stripe raises additional $600m, now valued at $36m
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Blessed are the "small check, big network" investors
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Just spent €99 for a very nice Siemens Bosch repair man to tell me that my microwave “broke” because this switch was turned off…🤦♂️
Hope your Monday is also going fab 🥹
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Yes they do - from New York City to the 101 in San Fran - always great to see a logo you designed in a basement in Kerry to be plastered accross billboards in the USA :)
#BuildBridges
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8 days later and I can finally bring my German engineering project home! Thanks to all the doctors and nurses at Charité hospital. Crutches for the next few weeks but recovery is going well. Thanks for all the kind wishes
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Been super impressed by the speed and conviction of
@Frontlinevc
in the last few years! Very pro active and founder friendly team that seems to move 10x faster than anything I’ve seen in Ireland (or most of EU). Very exciting portfolio that seems to grow daily :)
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#GiveFirst
consistently seems to be a core value of the most successful people i’ve ever met! Over coffee this morning I was blown away when a board member at a $50b+ public company offered very generously how they could mentor
@techstars
- Wow!
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Bump into your network as you search google 🔥❤️🚢
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Lockdown in Ireland means you cannot go more than 5km from your home.
Luckily I have these views in our 5k
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The scariest thing about having being an entrepreneur... is the thought of someday doing it again! The 2nd+ time you know the true cost, risk and a 1000+ more reasons why you will fail. You are simply less idealistic.
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I'm hiring a Jr Developer with 2+ years experience. If you love solving problems, want to improve your craft as a developer, gain experience and mentorship at a startup, and are excited about working remote then drop me a DM. Ideally full time, but can be flexible.
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I've never met 16 of the 18 people on our team in person.
Yet I feel I know them as well as I know any other team I worked with in the past. Think about what this means for the future of work, the future of the internet and the future of humanity.
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Cork company buys Dublin company ;)
New story: Apple acquires artificial intelligence startup Voysis to boost Siri. The Dublin-based company developed a platform for digital voice assistants to better understand people’s natural language + pushed AI into online shopping apps
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Positioning is such an under-rated and under-discussed tactic in startups. Positioning can have the biggest impact on product-market fit and its where I spend a lot of my time when chatting to pre PMF Founders.
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OMG ... a UK 'Fund' just asked a startup for a 4% management fee... A YEAR!!!
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE JOKE
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I need to invest in 10 B2B SaaS startups in the next few weeks... If you were me who is the one company you would you talk to? We are stage and geography agnostic. Danke in advance :)
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Bridge is the future of Networking. A future where you can trust, collaborate and share faster than ever. A future where Human Networks are as organised, scalable and efficient as the Internet.
#BuildBridges
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When the CEO of one of your all-time favourite and most used apps applies for an invite to the beta 😍
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Woohoo - First non ‘totally embarrassing’ version of iOS beta released! We now enter the ‘somewhat embarrassing’ phase of the startup product journey :)
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A
@techstars
Founder called to say seed round is in the bank💰. 30 seconds of congrats 🍾🥂 Then 44 minutes talking about hiring, KPIs and what is needed to raise next 10M. Never ends, pressure mounts, funding isn't the goal but does help teams
#DoMoreFaster
🚀💣
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Techstars will invest in 100 early stage companies in Europe & Israel this year. In 2017, 5% of all US Series A deals were
@Techstars
companies. We've already had some fantastic Series A deals in Europe this year, with many to be announced, and a lot more to come.
#GiveFirst
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Great startups are still fundraising. Just heard from another European founder that they are oversubscribed on their seed round. Kudos to those investors who are still investing and the founding teams that are building the new economy!
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Some amazing founders coming out of Ireland right now
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The best thing about starting a company is learning how stupid you are. The learning curve is rarely steeper or more fun :)
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Imagine
@stripe
and
@intercom
had an Irish baby - it could look a lot like what
@patjfin
@RomyLynch
and the team are building with - turning Chat into GDP ... Kinda :)
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Berlin does VC proximity/serendipity better than anywhere else in Europe. By 10AM I had bumped into 4 VC's (1 I did not know before) 2 Founders and a Techstars Mentors. Startup ecosystem density like that only happens in SFO (IMO)
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Wow -
@Techstars
Berlin company
@ArweaveTeam
just passed $2B market cap!! 🦄 🦄 🇩🇪 🏔
The
#permaweb
is only just beginning!
Go
@samecwilliams
,
@camposgroth
,
@startuprob
and the whole team and community who have helped make this happen
/cc
@davidcohen
@nglaros
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I just registered the domain
It will only ever by used to invest in Founders from Dublin :)
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Remember St Patrick was an immigrant and was not born in Ireland.
#StPatricksDay
is therefore a holiday that celebrates the impact of immigrants everywhere.
People who left home, created a new life, and worked to improve their host countries.
🙏🏽 🌎
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Not even a week into
#1111
and
@kevinabosch
is already the highest ranked new NFT project in the world as he passes 1k ETH in new sales (almost 2m USD) and he has not even sold a 3rd of the collection!! WOW 🤩 Could not happen to a better person!!! Go Kevin
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“Let me know how I can be helpful” is backwards and very lazy 🛑
Instead spend your whole time in a meeting truly listening so you can finish every meeting by saying “Here is how I can be helpful - A, B and C”
Actions > Words
Helping others is the best strategy
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Meet the 4 beautiful women I live with, newest addition arrived this morning. Mommy and baby doing great! Happy 2017 :)
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Can’t believe I’m only just learning about Bull Rock island of the West Cork coast in the SW of Ireland - looks like something from a bond movie 🤩 😮
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A European angel investor just asked one of our companies for a fully paid vacation to a luxury island (at 6k a night for 2weeks) if the company exits for more than a single digit million... What the actual F*** !!!!!! OMFG
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@culturaltutor
Nice - As 2nd increasingly merges into 1st - it makes sense to live and work near more 3rd places. Great points on tourists don’t lie
FYI
@chris_herd
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$24m of signed term sheets / closings this September already across the portfolio! So excited for all the amazing founders I’m lucky enough to work with
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Amazing to see a bootstrapped Cork company like
@teamwork
lead a market with the likes of
@asana
as a competitor. Go on
@irlTopper
and THE TEAM. This is the magic of the internet.
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I'm a 100x better at pitching other peoples startups :)
"The Cobblers kids have the worst shoes"
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It is not everyday a girl from Ballincollig, Co. Cork becomes Editor in Chief of
@glamourmag
... or that the word Ballincollig is even mentioned in Glamour Mags editorial letter :) Take a bow
@samanthabarry
- you are a legend!
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Hard to believe it is my 2 year anniversary at
@Techtars
today - A fantastic time, full of professional growth and more importantly brilliant Founders, Colleagues, Mentors and Friends. Thank you everyone and especially everyone in the Berlin and
@sap_iO
eco-system
#GiveFirst
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Just made our first hire in Quito, Ecuador 🇪🇨
How cool is that 😎
And yes 50% of our hiring strategy is based on hiring great people in locations we want to visit :)
The other 50% is based on a deep understanding of multithreaded processes, tech debt and when to refactor 💪
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New 'Do you send updates' investment thesis :)
Me: Show me your last 3 monthly investor updates
Founder: No problem. I will send them over now.
Me: Whats your IBAN
The correlation between regular investor updates and my top performing investments is pretty much 1:1
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