- Pitch your Irish start-up idea on Twitter and win €10,000 Usually start-up pitches are weeks if not months in the making, but not this one. Entrepreneur turned investor Niall Harbison is inviting start-ups to pitch their ideas in 140 characters or less for the chance to secure vital initial funding.
- Wahooly: Use your social media influence to gain equity in start-ups for free One of the hardest things start-ups face is getting that initial marketing boost or user-base that often ultimately determines their success or failure. Now, a unique and innovative start-up Wahooly attempts to solve this.
- Diaspora gets desperate, asks for further community donations Diaspora appears to be getting desperate. The once-hyped saviour to our social networking privacy woes has written an open-ended blog post, pleading for further contributions to help sustain the open-source project into the future.
- ‘Your Country, Your Call’ competition funding request withdrawn Just over one year since the employment initiative ‘Your Country, Your Call’ closed for entries, the Irish Times today report that the competition’s request for funding has been withdrawn by its organisers. Contest initiator Dr. Martin McAleese, husband of President Mary McAleese, has withdrawn his request of €300,000 in government funding stating that it was no longer needed.
- Social news curation site paper.li raises $2.1 million Paper.li, a site that “organizes links shared on Twitter and Facebook into an easy to read newspaper-style format” has just raised $2.1 million in funding. SmallRivers, the Swiss company behind paper.li will receive capital from Highland Capital Partners, SoftBank Capitol, and Endeavour Vision.