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Hasraf Haz Dulull has spent years at various visual effects facilities and studios internationally working on various big blockbuster feature films, award winning Commercials and Television and Broadcast series. He has been employed as a Visual Effects Artist and later moved up to Visual Effects Supervisor which resulted in him being nominated for several Visual Effects Society (VES) awards. Hasra...
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I love the concept behind the Co-Working space Third Door. As any parent knows, working from home, with children by your side can be tough going, both for you, and your children. Third Door is a flexible co-working space, coupled with an inhouse nursery. The more you say it out loud the more it seems to make sense really. With this in mind, Startacus contacted Shazia Mustafa, Co-Founder of Th...
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Passionate about sustainable living, international development, technology and social enterprise - the “Small is” Festival, occurring 31st August to 1st September, might be worth a look. Set six miles from Rugby in Warwickshire, the “Small is” Festival, is a small annual festival to celebrate the ideas of the distinguished philosopher E. F. Schumacher. Mostly famous for hi...
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Top 5 Business Apps - iOSHaving looked at Android Apps last week, we now turn our attention to iOS. The iPhone and iPad have become a phenomenon since Apple released the iPhone in 2007, and it seems like they've been in a constant court battle ever since. However one thing is certain; they're damn popular.So, here are the Top 5 Business Apps that we here at Startacus think are just aces. Google+ ...
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Silicon Valley may once have been the only location that was synonymous with technology and small innovative startups but there can be no denying that in the last number of years, it has started to have some competition. Both government led initiatives and organic grassroots clusters have emerged which have shifted the axis somewhat on the heart of digital innovation. One leading example of this i...
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All those months ago, when Startacus was but an idea, we used to do all our writing and planning and meetings in one or other of our local coffee shops. Which shop we chose depended on a few things really; with the quality of the coffee, the reliability of the wi-fi and of course the friendliness of the staff being way up there on our list. And generally we weren’t alone, there would be plen...
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If you’re fond of tinkering with the soldering iron and making your own DIY gadgets, chances are you’ve got all sorts of finished and unfinished little projects lying around. But what to do with them? Well apart from the obvious (use/finish/dump), there is now a new online resource that might just provide the answer.tINDIE is a new platform where you can buy and sell your own homemade ...
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If you want to learn how craft contributes to innovation and enterprise, attending this year’s Crafts Council Conference is a must.This year’s Crafts Council Conference takes place at the RIBA, London on September 20th. The aim of “Assemble” is to bring people together to discuss the contribution that craft makes to innovation and enterprise and also the relationship betwee...
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Top 5 E-commerce Sites  If you want to sell the fruits of your creative endeavours, chances are opening your very own bricks and mortar shop may be a bit beyond your reach in the early days anyhow. Of course that doesn’t mean your forays into retail have to be abandoned. The internet might have had a detrimental impact on our high streets but it has also brought e-commerce and wit...
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An excellent new initiative aimed at promoting enterprise amongst school students has recently been announced by Peter Jones, serial entrepreneur of Dragon’s Den fame. (You know him - he's the one everybody likes.)The Tycoon in Schools programme which will launch officially in November has seen him invest £100,000 of his own money into a competition which aims to motivate and inspire t...
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If you’re a female entrepreneur based in Ireland, then this new Enterprise Ireland initiative may be of interest. The €250k Competitive Feasibility Fund which they recently launched, has been created primarily to help stimulate high potential business startups by female entrepreneurs.The fund is aimed at assisting female entrepreneurs to investigate the viability of new growth orientate...
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Early stage business startup?! Startacus loves free stuff and advice. So when we heard about the Marketing Agency Association competition to “Win a Marketing Agency for a Year” we thought this is one competition we should share! The competition to win an agency for a year is open to entrepreneurs in a startup that has been running less than two years. A shortlist of five business peop...
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