The Difference Engine

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The Difference Engine is open for business and we are accepting applications for our January 2011 intake. Our application deadline is 3 October 2010. We look forward to meeting you later in 2011!

For those who apply before the original deadline, 23 July 2010, we will contact you directly to talk through your application and allow you to update your application prior to the final application date.

Team/Contact name *

Email Address *

Telephone Number *

Website/URL *

Where are you currently based? *

What product/service are you going to make? *

What is really different and smart about this? *

What is the problem you are solving? *

What gives you an unfair advantage? *

Who are (and might be) your competitors? Don’t say none. *

Who is the target audience for the product/service? *

How will you make money? *

What might go wrong? How can you minimize those risks? *

What about your business are you most uncertain about? *

Have you a demo you could show us? If so, please supply URL, user IDs etc. *

When do you expect to have a beta ready for release? *

Has all your code been written by the founders (other than open source)? *

Who are the members of the team and what do they do? *

How long have you been working on this? *

How do you know each other? *

Is anyone on the team working full time on the project? *

For each member of the team provide a short bio (including name; degree; URL; employers and titles; projects) *

If you are a company what is your corporate history to date? Have you had any outside investment to date? *

What do you hope to get out of The Difference Engine experience? *

Can all the founders be in the North East of England throughout the duration of the Difference Engine between January and March 2011? If not, why not?*