No Experience Required but a Fund worthy idea would be nice!

So Thursday night is the new entrepreneurship night on RTE TV. I was looking forward to The Fund but didn't really expect too much of No Experience Required. As it turned out The Fund was quite boring with not a single knock-out idea on show while No Experience Required was unexpectedly entertaining and even saw two of the Advertising Creative wannabes jetting off to Malta to research a billboard campaign. Tough life, eh?

You've got to wonder though if RTE made enough advance effort to get the word out about The Fund. With a €25,000 prize on offer I was amazed at the poor ideas paraded infront of the judges. Ok, not every good business idea needs to have wow factor but I was at least expecting one that would give me 'now why didn't I think of that?' envy.

By the way, RTE are at this very moment (1 to 2 pm Friday 3rd March) hosting a live webchat with career adviser Mike Fiszer who prepped each candidate before interview on last night's episode of No Experience Required. Congrats to RTE on showing embracing the web just a little more.

Comments

[Des Field Corbett]

Have to agree with you there. I only caught the end of it but if the ideas selected to go through were the best, the poor panel must have had a boring day.

Whatever about the 25K, I would have thought the exposure on national TV would have attracted more interesting ideas. Even coming in as a 5th place runner up would give you more TV time than any startup could afford.

Also the lack of presentation skills was amazing, how many didn't wear suits or even work-casual clothes? I can understand nerves but you're about to do a pitch to business people on national television, dress like you weren't dragged in of the street.

Its hard to know what this reflects though - you can't really guess what the production team wants out of the show. The clips of the second episode looked kind of scary, lots of 'trust' exercises, so it may be aimed at the 'entertainment' side of things not at budding entrepreneurs.

[bob]

the issue with the fund is, well, the fund - €25k aint going to get you too far. half a s/ware engineer maybe. the tv exposure admittedly would be worth more in the hope some real business angel picked you up. Its just a poor Irish rehash of a UK format (in this case Dragons Den)