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BYOD: What are the risks? Many people use their smartphone or tablet to work on-the-go or remotely from home, usually by connecting to corporate networks. With more and more people remotely connecting to the network from home or personal devices as a convenient way to work without being in the office many corporations have been forced to look into the security procedures in place. As BYOD become...
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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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You may remember a few weeks ago we featured a great little story about Your Hero Delivery - a superhero laundry service that became so popular it had to close…since then we have discovered a very unusual laundrette called Wasbar and as a result are fairly convinced that a secret laundry revolution is underway… here’s why. It is hard to imagine anywhere less inspiring than the...
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It's Startaclaus Day 11 and today we have 2 prizes of £50 Amazon Vouchers courtesy of Crunch Accountancy Here at Startacus, we thought we would do our bit to help the season of goodwill be a little less painful on the pocket and a little more fun into the bargain! So we've enlisted the help of Startaclaus - a jolly old fellow with presents galore for hard working self starters like you! As...
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Finding the right company fit for your startup team... Last month we finished our 'Recruiting for your Startup’ series with a post on the options you have once you’re at interview stage. One of the previous posts featured key pointers you’d want to consider when creating a job description, including identifying the main criteria that you’d deem to be necessary for your jo...
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Arfah Farooq is 22 years old and co-founder and relationships director of Discoverables; a gameful platform that enables young people to identify, develop and showcase the key strengths and skills needed to succeed in work and in life… "In my final year of university where I was doing a degree in Media and Communication at Goldsmiths I wasn’t quite sure where I wanted to go. I stumbl...
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It's Startaclaus Day 10 and today we have a free membership at Innovation Bank to give away! Here at Startacus, we thought we would do our bit to help the season of goodwill be a little less painful on the pocket and a little more fun into the bargain! So we've enlisted the help of Startaclaus- a jolly old fellow with presents galore for hard working self starters like you! As you would imagine...
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It's Startaclaus Day 9 and today's prize is a fab premium animation package from Doodle Direct Here at Startacus, we thought we would do our bit to help the season of goodwill be a little less painful on the pocket and a little more fun into the bargain! So we've enlisted the help of Startaclaus- a jolly old fellow with presents galore for hard working self starters like you! As you would imagin...
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As part 1 and part 2 of the Journey of an Exhibitor suggested, most companies will, at some point be involved in an exhibition. Exhibitions provide a great platform to meet potential buyers and promote your company and when you invest time, money and resources it is important it is a success, so the team from the www.smartbusinessshow.com return with part 3 of their epic t...
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Tongue in cheek perhaps, but admittedly still in the spirit of Rock n Roll, this is an almost no holds barred article on why Startups are like Rock n Roll bands… Some esteemed entrepreneur type folk seem to want to suggest that being an entrepreneur is the new Rock and Roll. We are all Rock Stars apparently, our music is the startups we create, and the drugs, the energy that ‘the sce...
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This week the Rormix Startup Diary returns with some thoughts on getting media coverage...#discover: the road to media coverage "Hey guys, I’m back and I thought I’d tell you a bit about what we did once our app became available on the app stores. So we built this app and polished it to a point where it was good enough to put it on the app store – and we prepped ourselves to s...
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Considering working from a co-working space? This handy post from GoCoWo.io will help you choose the right space for you... "Location, price, facilities, meeting rooms, noise levels – these are some of the standard criteria used to compare one co-working space versus another. If you have ever worked in one you will know that the most important factor is missing from most websites or co...
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