Culture

We’ve all been there. Trying to figure out what to cook for that evening’s dinner and then ending up with the ‘convenient’ but unhealthy choice - the frozen pizza. Well, our latest Startup of the Week is seeking to change just that. Hello Fresh is a startup which is trying to make the cooking of tasty, wholesome and healthy meals at home as easy as possible. On a week...
Read Post »

Are you an Irish Startup looking for a prize? Yep, thought that would get your attention. Now that we’ve got your interest - do read on - it could be well worth your while! Those good folk over at InterTradeIreland have just (in the last few days) launched this year's all-island Ireland Seedcorn competition for startups and early stage startups. Big bucks of a prize fund worth €280,00...
Read Post »

Google Glass and Science Fiction... We have a lot to thank Science fiction for. Or should we just start calling science fiction - human imagination? After all, much of the ‘science’ and ‘imagination of the future’ that we read and watch on TV ends up becoming a real life technology reality. We have previously featured all sorts of innovative inventions and developments -...
Read Post »

Entrepreneurial Spark Start-Up Craig McDonald Co-Founder of StorkUp has written a 4000 word summary on building a high growth web startup! Not only is that fab, he is also happy to share his thoughts and ideas with you all over a series of posts to appear on Startacus. Over 3 posts Craig will return with more handy tidbits of advice. Over to Craig to explain all: "One of the best things about Ent...
Read Post »

Last week we highlighted 5 tips on driving traffic to your website and we promised we would be back with 5 more tips. So we are. Back that is. With 5 more tips surprisingly. Last week we highlighted Providing Good Content, Social Media, Offline Marketing and Sales, e-marketing, and Becoming Synonymous as our first 5 tips that don’t rely on and involve direct SEO work. There can’t be f...
Read Post »

Jo Haigh, guest contributor for Startacus writes an opinion piece on "building better businesses" and the critical success factors that should be considered... "As many a small business is falling victim to the recession, building a better business must be on a lot of entrepreneur’s minds. Having bought and sold over 300 businesses in the last 20 years, I would like to think I have some in...
Read Post »

Positivity Rules! Denise Devlin, Founder of Positive Parties®, an inspirational, motivational & transformational coaching company delivering fun workshops, writes for Startacus on her top 5 tips for being & staying positive in business "I launched Positive Parities® on the 22nd October 2010. I had already been self employed for 2 years working as a freelance facilitator and f...
Read Post »

Hand shakes. Smiles. Coffee and chat. For some the face to face networking event is a fabulous chance to make business connections, get new ideas and inspiration, find support , collaborate and potentially find future business partners. For others, the face to face nature of networking can seem like a real life nightmare, and for those that fear small talk, introductions and that feeling of firs...
Read Post »

Here at Startacus we love hearing about innovative projects and initiatives which are trying to improve and regenerate our beleaguered high streets and towns, so when we first heard about the Love your Local Market campaign, we knew it’d be something we’d love. And we do. Now in its second year, Love your Local Market is a national campaign which aims to showcase all sorts of markets ...
Read Post »

With a vision to emulate the success of SXSW, the music, film, and interactive conference and festival held annually in Austin, Texas, Digital Shoreditch, the London based Festival, is back, even bigger and bolder than before. An exciting prospect - one which we thought we’d find out a little more about. We’ve got to confess at this point - we do have a bit of a vested interest in the...
Read Post »

“Pop Up Shop – A temporary retail space in which businesses can showcase and advertise their products on a short-term basis.” Whoever brought this idea to life hit the nail on the head. Pop up shops are exciting and becoming increasingly popular in the UK, promoting some of the most influential and unique upcoming businesses. Here in Britain, we are witnessing high streets chang...
Read Post »

Fancy learning a new language? From a native speaker? From the comfort of your own home? Well, if so, that’s just become both possible and a whole lot easier thanks to our latest Startup of the Week. Put simply, Fluentify is a marketplace for languages.The online platform uses video conferencing to help those interested in learning languages to connect with native speakers all around the wor...
Read Post »