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Venture Capitalist: What the Dot-Com Bubble Says About AI - Marty Loughlin
Marty Loughlin, General Partner of Digital Irish Ventures and a founder who lived through the dot-com boom and bust, joins the Straight Line Path podcast where he shares why a shakeout is coming for AI startups, why being first doesn't win and how to build a moat in the age of AI.
We also cover what moving your startup to the US really brings, from the scale of the market and closeness to customers to the network and access to capital, how Digital Irish Ventures taps the Irish diaspora to back Irish founders, and the hiring mistakes that cost startups a year.
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Episode #28 - Marty Loughlin
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12 Oct 2026
Serial Entrepreneur: The Thinking Habit Most People Never Learn - Garret Flower
Garret Flower, founder of Immensity, Wayleadr and Krüst Bakery, joins the Straight Line Path podcast where he shares how he built and sold Wayleadr, the parking platform used by Google, Netflix, Amazon and OpenAI, and the mindset that carried him from failure to exit.
We also discuss why failure is just learning, why action creates energy and energy creates results, how defining what you don't want and Charlie Munger style inversion shapes your success, and why second and third order thinking led him to build Immensity.
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Episode #27 - Garret Flower
Our Sponsors:NobleFlow | AI Consultancy & Agency (https://nobleflow.io)
27 Sept 2026
Why More Promotion Isn't Getting You Customers and How to Fix It - Marc Thornton
Marc Thornton, managing director of DTA Marketing and former marketing manager at Superquin and Deloitte, joins the Straight Line Path podcast to share his three-pillars method for finding a business's core message and why most marketing fails to reflect what a company actually offers.
We also cover why word of mouth is something you actively stimulate rather than wait for, the blank back of a business card most companies waste, and why customers buy benefits, not features.
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Episode #26 - Marc Thornton
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