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Over the last couple of years, there’s been a real boom in the so-called Sharing Economy and there have been a plethora of startups created as a result - and that’s surely no bad thing. Sharing is pretty much the main focus of our latest Startup of the Week. Eatro is a new online community and marketplace for sharing homemade food.The concept is really straightforward.If you’re ...
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Hearts. Flowers. Chocolates. They’re everywhere this week. Well...in more places than normal…Why?Well the fact that a certain Valentine’s Day is almost upon us ought to give you a clue.No better time then to highlight a Startup of the Week which is aiming to shake the world of online dating up once and for all. True View is a mobile app which claims to be the ‘new way to ...
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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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Let’s face it - in universities all across the world there are students who spend their days undertaking innovative and ingenious research. At the same time there are people who are working in companies who also spend their days trying to innovate and to create new and disruptive solutions to business problems. The two rarely meet - until now that is.Our latest Startup of the Week is aiming ...
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Let’s face it - when many of us are planning a trip to a new city or country, we’ll often ask friends and family who’ve been there before for their thoughts - their tips and their recommendations for things to do, places to eat, where to shop or whatever. Whilst there are a plethora of resources for finding out all that info too, it’s somehow not the same as getting a perso...
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If you’ve been considering using the power of the ‘crowd’ to help finance your business, you’ll have perhaps been a tad confused at the sheer amount of places and platforms that you could potentially use.However, thanks to our latest Startup of the Week, identifying which crowd or peer-to-peer finance option would be best for you and your business has become a whole lot eas...
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If you’ve started 2014 with a resolution to start doing something good, then we reckon this week’s Startup of The Week is well worth a look.Makerble is ‘the world’s first charity projects subscription service.’This innovative startup has made the whole notion of donating to charity not just easier but also much more transparent. After all, over the last few years, man...
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Christmas Day is almost upon us once more - a day generally filled with the usual suspects - lots of food and drink, lots of presents (if we’ve been good) and of course lots of discarded wrapping paper.All that effort we put into wrapping our gifts and the recipient tears it off in a split second and casts it aside without a second thought.Well, thanks to our latest Startup of the Week, that...
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Let’s face it - there’s always something different about work on a Friday. Whether it’s relief that the working week is coming to an end or the whole notion of ‘Yay! It’s the weekend..’ Either way, Fridays are generally pretty good days.And thanks to our latest Startup of the Week, Fridays have just become even better for some lucky Londoners! DeskBeers is...
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It’d be fair to say that these days we’re all pretty much used to food labels outlining the nutritional content of whatever we’re eating. Should we choose to pay attention, we can quite easily work out the calorie content of every meal we consume. But what about the other side of things - how we burn calories. Figuring that out hasn’t always been as easy. And that’s ...
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