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Digital DNA, leading lights in the NI Tech and Business community announced as media partners for the LEVELUP events at Derry & Strabane Enterprise Week Following on from our recent announcement about the speakers, panelists and sponsors for our LEVELUP events at Derry and Strabane Enterprise Week and the fab judging panel for our NI early-stage startup pitch competition, the good news keep...
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  Key speakers, panelists and sponsors announced for the LEVELUP event, taking place on 21-22 April as part of Derry & Strabane Enterprise Week Details of the key speakers, panelists and sponsors for the LEVELUP event that is being delivered by Startacus and taking place during Derry and Strabane Enterprise Week have just been announced! Following on from last year’s LineUP event...
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  Week Gen-C is a week long calendar of events focused on entrepreneurship and careers, aimed at helping young people affected by the covid pandemic in the North West of NI The pandemic has brought many challenges, in particular for young people as they deal with the uncertainties of its impact on their job prospects and career aspirations. Now, two North-West NI based organisations have...
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Startacus and Matrix NI partner on STEMS, 3 interconnected events, with leading speakers exploring themes around AI and bias, STEM development in schools and the workplace, and tech growth and entrepreneurship Exploring the current reality vs the future vision of STEM talent in NI, STEMS is a series of 3 interconnected virtual events, delivered by Startacus, which aim to examine the diversity o...
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Green Entrepreneurship report reveals that most entrepreneurs believe the shift to a greener economy represents an opportunity for business and a boost for the economy   Most small and medium-sized businesses believe there are financial opportunities in the shift to a greener economy and that they personally can benefit from them, according to new Opinium polling commissioned for Green En...
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CUEI release their latest findings outlining the level of entrepreneurialism in the UK and the desires and barriers faced by those starting a business... Coutts, the wealth manager and private bank, has just released the latest findings of the inaugural Coutts UK Entrepreneur Index (CUEI) which outlines the level of entrepreneurialism in the UK as well as the desires and barriers that they have...
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Aimee Louise Carton, the co-founder of mental wellbeing app KeepAppy shares her insight into entrepreneurship and mental health. Would you start a career with the knowledge that 99% of your peers had failed? Or that you would be twice as likely to die by suicide than the average person, twice as likely to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital and three times more likely to develop an abusive...
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We're liking the sound of… Rebel Book Club The what? Rebel Book Club? Yep, Rebel Book Club is much like you’d expect - it’s a book club, but with an application process to be approved to then attend. London based.  So why are you writing about it on Startacus? Well the type of books they read range from books focused on creativity, motivation, business, entrepreneurshi...
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Entrepreneurship is a lot more than deciding to start a business, coming up with a business name and logo, building a website and watching the customers flood in. There are a lot of unique challenges and ups and downs people don’t necessarily expect when they set out to work for themselves. With that in mind, here are some way in which entrepreneurship might not be for you, and vice ver...
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In honoured tradition we return with our roundup and list of the top UK and Ireland Startup Events and Conferences for 2017. Since covering key Startup events back in 2015 and then again last year in 2016 with our UK Startup event roundup, we’ve always found the list of startup related events becomes broader and more diverse in terms of theme and specialist subject. Of course we could also ...
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