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If collaboration and innovation are more than just buzz words to you, then the latest initiative from IC tomorrow ought to be right up your street.The aim of the Cross Sector Exploration initiative is to encourage digital innovation in the following areas:Retail connected retail smart tools for brand loyalty the future store. Events engaging festival audiences: urban engaging festival ...
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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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We’d previously featured Ross Harrison back in June last year, when we chatted to him about his journey into Self-Publishing. Ross Harrison is a writer and self-publisher of science fantasy books and ebooks and since he’s now a fully fledged Startacus member, and he’s just launched his latest ebook Acts of Violence, we thought it only right to find out more about his latest offe...
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Chris MacRae, the brains behind Sponsor the Shirt has very kindly agreed to keep us up to date with the progress of his project with regular diary posts. He’s off to a smashing start, here’s the first of his updates…. Aftermath of the Big Kick-Off Sponsor The Shirt was an idea I came up with a few months ago on a bit of a whim. As a typical student running low on funds, while ...
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Heard about the Becon Economy? Beconomists? Spark Ups?....Nope? Well, read on to find out more... The Becon Economy is an emerging, dynamic and flourishing new sector of the economy and is a term used by Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean at London Business School, to describe a new period of economic behaviour which is being pioneered by 18-34 year olds worldwide. Having spen...
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Satellite Broadband drives rural areas back into business Companies trying to run a successful business from a rural area have always faced bigger challenges than city based organisations. With the internet, and in particular social media now playing such a crucial role in building and retaining a loyal client base, it was feared that those with no dial-up access would suffer greatly. Many broad...
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As it’s a brand new year, we’ve decided to redouble our efforts to inspire you potential startup business folks by introducing a new weekly feature called ‘Self-Employed Stories’. We’ll focus on people who we feel have shown great determination and passion for their business idea in the face of considerable challenges. It’s Week number 1 and in true Startacus fa...
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Way back (well in Aug 2012) when we launched this site, a core aim was to make Startacus - The Self Start Society, the definitive place for all the information, inspiration, tips, guides and handy documents that would help self starters take that business idea or early stage business and move it that further forward. Of course there’s plenty of good reasons why self starters, startups, entr...
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Here at Startacus we’re forever championing the benefits that having a comprehensive, effective and (most importantly) active social media marketing plan can have for your business. This is especially the case when it comes to startups, who can find that platforms like Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter can be really effective in increasing the market awareness of their brand and can be handy i...
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We always like highlighting up and coming and leading lights in the entrepreneurial scene and we reckon we’ve stumbled upon a cracker here. But it seems that for some, Amina Nabi, will need no introduction. Firstly she is the Chief Exec and Founder of recently launched Kinnect2 - the ONLY social media platform, focusing on bringing people and brands together in real time. She was also recen...
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A couple of weeks ago we asked all Startacus Self Starters of the Week to pitch to ourselves and Marketest why they should be considered for the Self Starter of the Year accolade. And the results are in... But let’s have a little recap first of all on how we got to this point. When we launched our Self Starter of the Week award back in September, it was because we wanted to reward the ea...
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How can small businesses help the UK economy top Europe by 2030? It's been sometime since the UK's economy was seen as the leading player in Europe. Not only have the power of Western economies been somewhat watered down by the growth of countries like China and India, but the past decade has seen a number of changes within the West itself. The Eurozone has been on a rollercoaster ride throughou...
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