Yesterday I saw 12 finalists competing for £40K of ICTomorrow at NESTA. I had ‘failed’ and wanted to learn what the potential winners had to offer.
When I introduced myself as an ‘eternal Start-Up’ to another of the very few ladies, she said “we should all be eternal start-ups.”
It was not very impressive to see existing companies and people who were seemingly commercially successful proposing incremental changes. No room for quantum leaps, paradigm shifts or genuine start-ups. One of the organisers said: the challenge was too prescriptive.
Quite right: a box ticking exercise. That’s how the TSB is ‘driving innovation’…
Is it worth making another effort and applying to the latest competition while George Osborne goes as far as mounting a legal challenge against the 11 European countries who want to introduce a Robin Hood Tax???
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- NESTA Take Two (lisamarygibson.wordpress.com)
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- Wayra seeks 10 digital start-ups for Dublin incubator (siliconrepublic.com)
3dmetrics.co.uk 
it’s certainly not captalism….i dnt even need much in way of funding, just access to banking facilities…
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