1.30" Mike McGrath co-founder of Kwayga - matching suppliers and buyers in the food industry. They have 50,000 suppliers on the platform, they have 1,000 active users, heading for 2,000 which Mike says is a tipping point on a platform. They're raising money and heading to grow big in the US. The good news is that small businesses can join for free. Aramark is a customer. They're very actively looking for Italian suppliers, something the Italian embassy may be interested in.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', Rachel Botsman, who makes complex things clear and has done a lot of work on creating 'trust' online.

20.00" Anne Butterly, founder of Louth based, Easydry - founded in 2005, that makes compostable fibre based towels. 'Hard work and dedication gets you places' she says. She explains how she cracked the hairdressing market, which brought her product worldwide. Market research is in her blood and she gives a masterclass on how to research markets and sectors. Not everything she has tried has worked, and she tells why. 'Keep innovating' is the way to keep ahead in terms of protecting your IP. BTW, a hair salon uses 12,000 a year!

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', Leonardo de Caprio, who funds environmentally positive businesses, but she also wants him to make an ad for Easydry

42.00" Eithne Sweeney, co-founder, Wires Uncrossed. In 2012 she and Myles, her husband, sailed from New Zealand to Mayo and this was the founding of her business, that aims to help technical teams to better understood, avoiding acronyms and colloquialisms. We love 'Top Tips' on That Great Business Show. Eithne gives us three of her top tips, all straightforward but all essential. They worked with Frontera amongst others in New Zealand.

Her hires in a heartbeat? Mindlab founder Francis Valintine, Dr. Michelle Dickinson, promoting STEM learning worldwide, Stephanie O'Malley, founder of DESTY.

63.00" John Bourdeaux, President AdvanceCT. John goes through all of the attractions of Connecticut for Irish businesses starting out to tackle the US market. He does business differently, and he gives his own personal phone number (+1 860 248 9880) to TeamGBS, that he will answer himself, to help Irish companies find their CT business. Irish company Nuritas is one of the most recent businesses to have chosen CT for their base.

His 'hires in a heartbeat', Indra Nooyi former boss at Pepsico and Jim Loree, CEO Stanley Black and Decker

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