[anamax]

Does anyone know how many "Ron Conway years" that is? 15K Euro is much larger than the YC "stipend", but the recent side-investments have eliminated that gap.

Yes, both are outliers, but there's more investment in the long-tail around them.

My point is that 15K euros to 100+ startups sounds big until you look at what the competition is doing.

[dkersten]

Well, compared to Startup Bootcamp, what Enterprise Ireland are offering doesn't seem like a brilliant deal to me. For one, do they give you that money outright? Last I checked, they only matched investments, so if you wanted 15K you had to raise 15K yourself too. Also, I'm not sure what they want in return and what kind of mentorship or introductions to investors they offer.

Startup Bootcamp on the other hand also gives you ~15K and seems to be modeled on YC - you can do what you want with the money, they provide mentorship with a large network of entrepreneurs and investors, they have a demo day where you pitch in front of investors etc.

Maybe I'm a little outdated on my information on EI however.