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Throughout any visit to a conference, trade show convention or Summit, you’ll be handed promotional materials, be it business cards, flyers or something a little less traditional - it’s going to happen.Opposite side of the coin, if you’re exhibiting at an event as such, you should most definitely be handing out promotional materials. After handing out your information, you don&rs...
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Northern Ireland Folk lend me your ears.  Good news, after our recent flurry of event giveaways with Dublin’s Web Summit, London’s Apps World and Sheffield’s Crowdfunding Deep Impact Conference, we’ve got a Northern Ireland based startup / innovation / entrepreneurial event giveaway - namely two tickets for the Digital DNA conference up for grabs. Yep - two...
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Good news, after our flurry of crowdfunding themed articles, from our overview of the national Crowdfunding: Deep Impact Conference and our interview with Barry James, Crowdfunding thought leader, we return this week with a fab giveaway. We've a ticket to win for the Deep Impact III conference itself and three runners up prizes of free entry to their Crowdfunding Masterclass, which quite convenie...
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Have you heard of the Playable City award? It’s an amazing annual Bristol-based competition which challenges artists and creatives from around the world to propose new ways for people to engage with the open and public spaces of the city. The whole concept is based around playfulness and injecting novelty, fun and intrigue back into the urban spaces around us, as a counterpoint to the ever...
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Many tech / startup themed events flatter to deceive - in fact Startacus have been to a few. But when you say. ‘Dublin. Web. Summit’ (ideally in that order), the ears prick up. You can’t help but think it’s a little different, there’s no need for much of a media spin - but an awful lot bigger and more special. So when the good folk at the Web Summit offered two Start...
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On any given day, it’s pretty likely that there is an event or conference happening somewhere in the world. If you happen to be an event organiser, it’s becoming an increasingly challenging task - both in terms of planning and creating the event itself but also in terms of attracting an audience.It’d be fair to say too that by relying only on actual attendees and standard ticket ...
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Startup events in the UK and Ireland in 2014 Last year (2013 being now a near distant memory) we shared with you all a select list of some of the Top Startup and Enterprise events happening in the UK and Ireland. Therefore we thought it only right to return with a new list and surprise surprise this year being 2014, the list focuses on the top events happening over the next 12 months. So how did...
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We all know that for every startup that succeeds, there are countless others that don’t. In fact, the stats, should you choose to read them can be pretty scary. However anyone who has ever been in a startup which failed will generally tell you that they learned so much - and sometimes much more than if things had all been plain sailing. The reality is that failing in a startup isn’t s...
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Le Web is the leading European tech conference, bringing together thought leaders and entrepreneurs from many of the world's top technology companies. This year, the London leg, happening on June 5th and 6th, will focus on the New Sharing Economy, also commonly known as “collaborative consumption”. As Le Web’s press release explains:“This movement represents a major econom...
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