100k split between four companies/ideas:
1. €16,000 cash sum;
2. One-day business mentoring session from senior eircom execs to the value of €3,000;
3. €1,000 per month for six months post-launch management fee
Full details on the eircom Labs page.
Areas to consider for a pitch:
- Content (e.g. video, short films, animations, UGC)
- Movies and TV (e.g. programme recommendations, listings application, information aggregation, content search, fan communities, recommender systems, discovery tools e.g. data visualisations))
- Games (e.g. Flash games, game communities, platforms, multiplayer games, persistent worlds, avatar-based social networks, game creation tools, ratings, reviews, gambling)
- News (e.g. personalised news gathering, news aggregation, news submission tools, communities of interest, domain-specific news services)
- Music (e.g. Internet radio, streaming / OD services, search / recommendations / personalisation, community tools)
- Sport (e.g. communities, results aggregation, fan communities, results prediction, betting, games)
- Widgets (e.g. any widget(s) based on the above or additional categories)
Can I pitch country-wide broadband to them as an idea?
Good initiative and great to see eircom running this again.
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