Culture

Mornings… we wouldn’t exactly say they are our favourite time of day. Granted, there is coffee (which is obviously great) but alongside it comes a serving of dreary eyes, incessant yawning, nodding heads, sardine-can style commutes and innumerable other unpleasantries which often make us wish we had never gotten out of bed in the first place!  Those of you with super-long elepha...
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Want to share your startup journey on Startacus? Got a self starter story or what to tell us all about your trip from corporate slave to startup champion! If so our self interview feature might be for you! As you can immediate as we we have so many wonderful startups and self starters here at Startacus that it would be impossible for us to interview them all about their journey... So.......
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Self Starter June Carmody is an experienced consultant, Community Manager and marketing executive with a focus on startups. In this article June gives us a all some handy pointers on "working out your USP"“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” Coco Chanel "A USP (Unique Selling Point) is a term frequently used in the business world. You need to have somethi...
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If you are based in Ireland (North and South) and looking to take your business or startup onto the next level and fancy facing the potential wrath of the Irish Dragons, the Irish series of the Dragons’ Den is on the hunt… RTE’s Dragons' Den is returning for a sixth series in 2014 and applications are now open. Following the same format as other Dragons’ Den shows from ac...
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Rormix is an emerging music video discovery platform who are sharing their startup tale on Startacus. Over to Agi, the PR and marketing team member of Rormix with Diary post 4...#discover: 5 Tips to Find Your Dream Developer So I told you about our rebranding hassle last week – my advice still applies, the best thing you can do is to get your brand right the first time. ...
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The tech world changes so fast it can be a challenge keeping up. That’s why the Startacus Technology News Round-up is here to keep your finger firmly on the pulse. So sit back and enjoy a quick trip through the latest UK technology news with marketing and technology blogger Justin Firth. New .uk Web Address Coming  The UK domain registry (Nominet) have announced that the new web addre...
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Update: DEAL NO LONGER IN DATE - DEAL NOLONGER IN DATE. Update: DEAL NO LONGER IN DATE - DEAL NOLONGER IN DATE. Update: DEAL NO LONGER IN DATE - DEAL NOLONGER IN DATE. Update: DEAL NO LONGER IN DATE - DEAL NOLONGER IN DATE.  Over the last few months, we’ve been agreeing some rockin’ deals with ‘big business’ to get Startacus members some fab deals and d...
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Within the last week, Twitter has announced that small and medium businesses and startups in the UK, Ireland and Canada can now use its platform for advertising. Prior to this point of course, advertising on Twitter was something that was firmly aimed at the big boys - the corporates. Now however, small and medium businesses can either use Promoted Accounts to help build a community of follow...
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With new Crowdfunding platforms emerging all the time, it certainly seems as though this once deemed ‘alternative’ method of financing a business or project is here to stay - and that’s no bad thing! The latest to launch is Crowdrooster which is being marketed at a global audience of startups. Each of the startups featured on the site will be based around product and design-...
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If you’ve ever dabbled in writing stories, you’ve perhaps at one point or another wondered how your story would look if it was ever transferred to the big screen.Well, thanks to our latest Startup of the Week, the world of “Lights, Camera, Action” has just got a little closer… Plotagon is a new tool which lets anyone create an animated movie directly from a written ...
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Only yesterday we featured the new NI startup event Friday Night Mashup and today we’ve got another good news story from a NI based startup. We recently interviewed Paul Stewart co-founder of Belfast based business Unibaggage (and Startacus member, of course!) and today we’re featuring a follow-up of sorts! Unibaggage were one of two Northern Irish startups* to be selected in th...
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Over the past few weeks we have taken on the splendid challenge of compiling a series of posts detailing some of the key things that you will need to consider before you open the doors of your temporary venture.  So far on our popup progress we have delved into; how to select and secure a location for your popup shop, the legalities of running a popup shop and how to source products for your ...
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