Culture

Based adjacent to the innovative “Peace Bridge” in Derry’s city centre, is Ebrington Square, a formerly disused military barracks and parade ground. The last few years have seen it being renovated and becoming a true cultural hub for the once divided city in Northern Ireland. Ebrington is now a collaborative and shared space for all sections of the community and now, with Eighty...
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We want you to join in with our #StartingSomething campaign by telling the world (or rather your social media network) about the self starters, inspirational people, or independent businesses, that you think we all should know about! We know that it’s not easy to take an idea and turn it into something real. That’s one of the key reasons why we created Startacus - the self start socie...
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In this our Swansea startup month, Prince Appah of Swansea based e-commerce solution Veeqo, tells us a litte about how new technologies create opportunities for online retailers.   Over to you...The rise and rise of mobile shopping apps is great news for consumers and retailers alike: this metamorphosis of the retail landscape has made the shopping experience much quicker, easi...
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No doubt you are familiar with the story. Over the past few weeks, our pal David Senior has been embroiled in a heavily mismatched tug of war with global telecommunications giant Nokia, over the branding of his innovative new app Lowdown, and its spin-off app HERE. Lowdown is a clever little tool which acts as a digital personal assistant by making sure you are optimally prepared for meetings, t...
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Vitamin are offering a very special deal to Startacus members - Custom Website and 12 months Subscription for £1,000!On Monday we announced the winner of our £5k Website Package care of Jump Marketing and their new Website & E-Commerce Solution Vitamin. The lucky team over at ‘Sweet Hangovers’ are now going to avail of the £5,000 Vitamin website package, includin...
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We have a little surprising fact for you; there's a lot of disused spaces floating around in the UK. OK, perhaps that's not quite the shocking headline we wish it was, but we have discovered some really interesting and uplifting news about how some of this free space is being utilised in a way that is good for business and communities...it's also pretty darn cool. A charity called 3Space is doin...
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With all new and old businesses, the laws and processes of the land are pretty much dictating the activities that a company can or cannot partake in.  As a Startup, business person and entrepreneur; you therefore need to know what’s going on in the world of business! That’s why we’ve put together this handy list of business Journalists that you and your team should be foll...
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197 Nation is a collaborative platform that’s aiming to crowdsource a smart civilization. Intrigued? So were we... 197 Nation aim to be a collaborative platform which crowdsources the 197th Nation on Earth. A grand idea we think you probably agree!  However as we discovered with our recent feature on the Mars One program (a global project that aims to use crowdfunding to send the first...
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It may sound like a delivery service run by butter-fingered workers, but drop shipping is increasingly becoming the mechanism of choice for a broad range of small, medium, and large businesses. Specifically in recent years there has been a notable increase in the uptake of such systems by startup businesses. We reckoned it was about time we took a few moments to run you through the basics of the ...
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Win 6 months’ free WordPress Care & Maintenance valued at  £180 via Stress-Free WP!  If you are the owner of a WordPress Website or Blog read on…. While setting up and using a Wordpress website is a relatively simple affair, maintaining said website or blog can become rather stressful. Whether it be upgrading to new versions, dealing with WordPress plugins, site ...
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With the upcoming departures of Kelly Hoppen, Piers Linney and Duncan Bannatyne from the BBC’s Dragons Den, we’ve been abuzz with talk and debate about who should fill their empty seats. We’ve come up with a number of ingenious solutions; guaranteed to make the show just as inspired as it was at the beginning and as cut throat and as business oriented as any of Alan Sugar’s...
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If you’re in the process of setting up or developing a social enterprise, then this bit of news could be right up your street. Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland and the School for Social Entrepreneurs have just launched their call for applicants for their Social Entrepreneurs Programme. Now in its fourth year, the programme aims to support anyone who has an idea which is tackling a social issu...
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