Adam Coleman is the founder of HR Locker, which is a cloud software platform that makes people management and recruitment easy for Companies. Before HR Locker Adam was part of the initial start-up team at Esat Digifone which after 3 years was sold to BT for over €1 Billion, which was technically Ireland’s first Unicorn.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“in 2004 all we had was dial-up broadband and we were trying to create a business…. We were struggling big time and we had developers here with us who would have to basically leave the office and drive to the next town and do an upload of our software and then come back ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization Book by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Matthew L Miller, Andy Fleming and Deborah Helsing
Also mentioned
- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
- Ulysses Book by James Joyce
- The Last Days of Socrates Book by Plato
Favourite Quote:
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing” Socrates
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“is don’t call themselves entrepreneurs. I think it’s a term that is been massively over abused”…[Listen for More]
More About Adam Coleman:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” Tony Dorsett
Other Quotes From the Chat with Adam Coleman:
- “the first mistake I made I think was giving too much trust to some people who worked with me”
- “I think getting advice from people of how you can self-sustaining yourself in the early stage of your venture is really, really important”
- “if you do something for free ever, ever expect something in return because the chances are you are going to be disappointed. And when it does come back then it’s so good when it does come back. It doesn’t come back every time but when it comes back it comes back in more ways than you can possibly imagine”
- “most people give up on something just before they are about to achieve it”
- “culture in entrepreneurialism starts with the individual who is actually the entrepreneur and then it basically goes from there”
- “I feel link I am fairly knowledgeable because I know what I know and I more certainly more importantly know what I don’t know. And if I don’t know something I triangulate, I go to who I feel is a really good expert and I ask them the question. And if I don’t get what I want then I go to another expert. And if I am still not happy I go to a third expert. And if I am still not happy get the three experts talking to each other and they come up with probably the best result I am going to get”
- “it’s a deliberate development organisation where the development of your people is at the centre of what you do as long as it is tune with the strategy of the business”
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