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Conceived by young entrepreneur Vincent Dignan in his bedroom, Planet Ivy is a pinch of toilet humour, a bit tongue in cheek, a mix of satire and a dash of poetic excellence and licence. But there's nothing funny about this online platform’s success. Whilst being born with an aim to find the most outrageous and thought-provoking stories on the web, and with a team of young, adventurous jour...
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Startups, beer and inspirational stories...three of our very favourite things and to our delight we are seeing them being combined more and more as the public's thirst for traditionally brewed beers increases and countless craft breweries spring up all over the place...what’s not to love! You may have seen our recent feature on the Meantime brewing company and the first ever UK crowdsourced ...
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The time has finally arrived - the announcement of the winners of this years Cisco BIG Awards took place in London last thursday and having followed the progress of the 6 startup finalists with great intrigue, we were more than a little eager for the finale of this particular startup saga.  Despite our best efforts, we sadly were not shortlisted (sad face) but never let it be said that we are...
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There are very few things which we at Startacus have a greater sense of common purpose with than Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). For those of you who might not be familiar GEW is the worlds largest campaign to promote entrepreneurship and (like us) they focus on the promotion of enterprising spirit, collaboration, innovation and originality. In the UK, GEW is hosted by Youth Business Int...
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Hannah Catmur is a budding entrepreneur and professional designer, graduating in 2011 from University of Leeds with an International Honours Degree in Design and Communications. She is the Founder of Get Out! Explorers, an edu-game for children which will launch in BETA in 6 weeks. Here's her tale... "Get Out! Explorers was imagined during my final year at University of Leeds whilst working ...
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Northern Ireland’s newest entrepreneurial support network, Friday Night Mashup will launch the first of a series of regular events to connect and empower NI Entrepreneurs “to take on the world”. The first event on the 29th November will welcome 150+ NI tech, business, investment and media heads to the *Titanic Docks and Pumphouse in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter. A couple of ...
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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 three..."Hey guys, This is Agi here. As I told you last week, we started out as RorBeat, but it didn’t feel right. This week I’m going to tell you how the rebranding took place. My advice ...
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Getting paid by your customers is a crucial part of keeping your business running smoothly.  But simply sending out your invoices isn’t enough - you need to remember that a sale isn’t a sale until the money’s in your bank account! Emily Coltman FCA, Chief Accountant to online accounting service provider FreeAgent, gives her five top tips on how to collect payment from your ...
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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.  When you are starting a new business, there can be a few things that might seem a little alien to start with - especially if you are not 100% tech savvy. ...
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So...all good things must come to an end. And the end we speak of today is the 5th and final in our series of posts on Recruiting for your Startup. In the recruitment process, this is the one we’ve been building up to - the finale if you like - Dum Dum Der - the interview... Since this is the 5th post, there’ve been of course four before now - the links for which you’ll convenie...
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As a company, Huddlebuy are on a mission - to save small business owners and entrepreneurs money. One of the ways they’re doing just that is through the Huddlebuy Gold Card which is a premium membership service for business owners and entrepreneurs that guarantees the best business and personal benefits. If that happens to be a priority for you, you’ll be delighted to hear that H...
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The League of Pragmatic Optimists or LOPO as it’s perhaps better known is a group of Do-ers who in essence want to make the world a better place.LOPO meetings are held in various cities all across the world where people can come together, connect, collaborate, generate ideas and projects, and get a much needed dose of inspiration and positivity. Sounds good don’t you think? As do...
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