Ben Lindsay

Director of Marketing @MachineryMP, startup enthused, figuring things out. writing - reading - Belfast/Boston

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

The last few months have been immense!

We booked our entire 2021 revenue in the first 1/4 of this year.

Signed a deal with the Rolls Royce of crushers

And this morning, we launched a huge leap forward for the Machinery Partner website (only a little stressful 😅)

[ArmorySquareVentures @ArmorySV]

We're thrilled to have led a Series A funding round delivering $11m in financing for @MachineryMP to help them grow to become the go-to destination for builders to procure heavy machinery across the U.S. and beyond. Here's to the future!🍾
https://t.co/Vvvcuzpupe

[Graham Curry @GrahamCurry17]

2. Build Something Simple Quickly 👷‍♂️

You don’t have to pay crazy money to test your idea.

Tools like Adobe XD and Figma can be used to create a working prototype.

They are FREE and easy to learn. I spent < 5 hours watching YouTube tutorials on this.

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

Growing by the day 🥫📈

[Ross Simmonds @TheCoolestCool]

I'll believe in Threads more when 90% of the conversations over there are no longer about switching from Twitter to Threads... And those same people aren't coming back to Twitter every other hour to tell everyone how they might be sold on Threads.

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

Ulsterbank unwilling to work with businesses changing to a new bank while they close accounts in NI.

Instead shutting accounts without notice & no access to the funds inside.

You are leaving companies with no way to trade & pay their suppliers.

@UlsterBankNI @NIPSO_Comms

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

@johnmcelhone 🤟

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

Wild week with the team in Chicago setting up 2023

Lots of fun (pain) ahead of us 😅😂
#BringItOn

[Machinery Partner @MachineryMP]

We crossed oceans and continents to come together for the AED Conference in Chicago!

Gathering with our awesome team from all over the world, we’re ready to learn, grow and have some fun. 🌍✨ #TeamBuilding #AED #Chicago

[Kyle Gawley @kylegawley]

I’ve launched 10 software startups in 12 years. 2 worked, 8 failed.

Here’s a list of them with the reason why each worked/failed 🧵⬇️

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

@levelsio What changed?

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

This is one of the craziest polls I’ve ever seen 👀

More than 1.8 million people answered and ALMOST HALF would kill a random person for $10k ?!?!!?

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

If someone offered you $10,000 but if you take it a random person on earth dies, would you take the $10,000?

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

This is fun to look back on 👀

We’re now tracking to hit over 4X 2021 revenue this year with customers running equipment in 23 states.

Crazy year of more ups than downs - roll on 2023 🤟

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

The last few months have been immense!

We booked our entire 2021 revenue in the first 1/4 of this year.

Signed a deal with the Rolls Royce of crushers

And this morning, we launched a huge leap forward for the Machinery Partner website (only a little stressful 😅)

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

@GDonnelly82 @PolestarCars Polestar have always been an electric favorite of mine. They design some stunning cars and are owned by Volvo so they actually know how to make them…

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

@fundingtales @simonbailie Cracking photo, who took this?

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

@SimonHoiberg Been a while, let’s give it a whirl!

I just made this page >> https://t.co/xi9je1TzaF

Love this approach btw, have used similar in the past 💪

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

@bruce_v3 Not but, and*

If it looks or feels ugly/broken but people still pay for it they’re getting value from it!

Plus as you say, all of the above can be fixed pretty easily - much harder to fix not having customers 😅

[Clodagh Rice @ClodaghLRice]

As figures show a worsening of the labour market @NI_Takeaways says 104 takeaways in NI have closed in 11 wks- including 2 on Botanic Avenue here the Other Place+the Sphinx

That’s estimated to be about 500 jobs lost since end of July. They say govt support is too little,too late

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

Awesome turn out and night, fair dues to you guys!

[Founders Night @founders_night]

#founders_night

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

@peterom Thanks for sharing Peter
You gave a great talk at ignite a few years ago and a lot of the stuff you shared really stuck with me + have been super useful

We’re looking for eng talent so I shared your list with the team

No doubt you’ll be onto something great for the next one 💚

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

@SideQuestOrla @PalmerLuckey @SideQuestVR Home run of an answer! 😅🤟😎

[Ben Lindsay @_betaBen]

@kylegawley Are you talking about on site or before you generate the SVG?

Figma lets you import fonts and edit/re-edit without having to flatten to make your vector file.