… and why you should come work with me at Scout! — Life is too short to spend time on things that don’t make you feel good about yourself, the work you do, or the people you work with. While this may not exactly be a revelation to you, over the years I’ve needed to be reminded of it. I’ve had career…

I’ll be honest. Since the demise of Cohort, it has taken me way, way longer to pick myself up than I thought it would. It’s nine months later, and I’ve just about figured things out… I think. 2018 brought a mix of personal and professional challenges, as anyone who has…

Maybe I could have worked more hours. Maybe I could have worked harder. Or smarter. Or whatever. Maybe. Maybe I could have had one more investor meeting. Maybe I should have focused more on marketing. Or customer development. (Yeah, customers, remember them?) Maybe I should have been more driven on…

Announcing Cohort for Organizations, making it easy to pool your team’s network capital to solve the kind of problems that come with starting up, growth, and scale. — A core belief of mine is that human networks are not optimised for solving problems at any scale. Relationships are probably the most under-utilised human resource there is. Social capital, relationship strength, interests and skills are hard to identify and quantify across one person’s network, or cohort of relationships. …

This week we are releasing a substantial update to Cohort that combines your network’s potential with real time communication, and more. Now you can easily chat with people who you share a real world network with. ☝️ Cohort helps you find the people you need, through the people you already…

Helping you unlock the potential of your professional network — Today we are launching Cohort — a new way to understand and access the value of your meaningful relationships. [Cohort is available in the App Store] The world is no longer a place where professional and personal relationships need to be kept separate. Throughout our careers, we build up a…

I’m a parent. We have two wonderful (well, we think, anyway) children, under the age of 4. I’m also the founder of an early stage startup — not my first startup either. I realised something yesterday, and I thought it’d be helpful to first time founders (and perhaps first time…

“Professional? Social? Isn’t that what LinkedIn is for!” Nope. — This week marks 12 months since Alex, Brendan, Eoin and I started working on Cohort. We want to make it easy for you to find the people you need through the people you already know and trust. So, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on why we’re…

I started skateboarding when I was 10 years old. While I played some team sports, they never interested me the way skateboarding did. Gaelic football and hurling was something I did at the weekend. But skateboarding was something I skipped homework to do. The 1980’s and 90’s in Dublin suburbia…