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Since Valentine’s Day is almost upon us once more, we thought it’d be quite apt to feature a startup which has love at its very core as our latest Startup of the Week. DateMy is an online matchmaking platform which effectively enables you to help someone you love find love. All together now...Aaah… Here’s how it works: As a Matchmaker, you firstly sign up and create a ...
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Admittedly, there’s not a lot of money in being a superhero per se, but they’re easily one of the more recognisable brands around. Noone in Gotham city is wondering what people mean by “The Batman” and New Yorkers all know a lot about their web slinging, wall crawling, friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. Marketing may be only one of the important lessons that comic books can...
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As if you needed further reason to indulge in all things handmade and crafty, there is a growing school of thought which says they are actually good for your mental wellbeing.   We were rather surprised by this - not that crafting is good for your head - but that there is so much interest in the links between the various acts involved with crafting and our mental processes.   No doubt ...
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To celebrate the launch of ‘Grand Theft Seagull’ their latest game to hit the virtual shelves, we have caught up with the folks at NI based Startup Game developer Troll Inc to pick their brains (so to speak) on 5 key issues which have affected their business and their startup journey. It’s the first in our new series of 5 question interviews designed to give a quick insight into...
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If you’re a new business just starting to try and make your mark in a chosen industry, you need to do as much as you can to stand out. Networking and contact-building will be an important part of your early work, so it would help for the business cards you hand out to be memorable so that you are not easily forgotten by potential clients. Many business cards are either professional but stai...
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2015 is the year of the self starter - we said it on January 1st and what has happened since has only made our position even more resolute. Just a few weeks ago we were reporting the incredible news that entrepreneurship had reached its highest ever level in the UK in 2014, and now we’re delighted to share some more encouraging news released just yesterday by the folks at Barclays. Through...
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The portable defibrillator, the ejector seat, the Massey Ferguson tractor and even a mug of hot chocolate; yes Northern Ireland has always been at the forefront of diverse innovation. Is now your opportunity to add your name into the mix? Following its wildly successful debut last year Northern Ireland Science Park (NISP) has announced the much anticipated return of its invention competition INVE...
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The London Enterprise Festival have kindly offered up 3 FREE tickets for lucky self starting folk to attend an industry specific day... Last week we shared the love for the “New Kid on the Startup Event Block’ - the inaugural London Enterprise Festival, a two week long bonanza of industry specific discussion, debate and insight, happening between the 8th - 19th of March in, yep you gu...
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Startup Weekend Swansea celebrates two years of success - They tell us all about it. Until 2013 Wales had never had the excitement of a Startup Weekend. Now, two years on, Swansea has seen two successful events, 18 teams go through the process, eight companies being formed who are still trading today. Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers and entre...
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5 Ways to beat the afternoon slump - You all know what we are talking about! Rather aptly, as I begin to write this piece, the time is approaching 2:30pm and right on queue, I am beginning to droop over my desk like a doomed snowman during a thaw. But unlike the snowman I am not surprised by this sudden and seemingly disastrous turn of events; this has become so routine, that I barely even r...
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With the Guardian asking the Danish company ‘LEGO’ to mark the beginning of Copenhagen Fashion Week, we saw the birth of the LEGO Hipsters.  This got the Startacus team thinking – What other wonderful things could LEGO do to mark events? Could we even use LEGO to help motivate Startups?So, here at Startacus HQ, we set our ‘Stunted Journalist Children’ to work, f...
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After a 3 month break from our Startup Cities series, we are back with our first startup city of 2015 and it’s Swansea!  What does that mean? Well basically it means that over the course of February we will be giving the lovely people of Swansea a platform on which they can tell the rest of the world all the wonderful things that are happening in their city. This could include a huge...
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