Talking Point: Tweet your way to a €10,000 start-up grant

"Why should you not start a business just because the banks won't give you the money? You can still make it happen yourself."

'In less than four years, Harbison and Fisher took the €10,000 they cobbled together to start Simply Zesty and turned their passion for social media into a healthy business'.

"Why should you not start a business just because the banks won't give you the money? You can still make it happen yourself."

So says social media entrepreneur Niall Harbison, who hit the headlines earlier this week for pledging €20,000 of his own money to help get two new businesses off the ground.

The offer is open to start-ups of every conceivable size and shape. "I'd invest in a product, a person, a ...