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The other day I gave into temptation and completed an online survey which promised to identify what animal I would be in just 6 easy questions... apparently I would be a wild cat... ...not bad I thought. However I am not quite sure how it reached this conclusion since I myself am neither wild nor particularly feline in nature. The urge now is to make a sweeping dramatic statement along the lines ...
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Thinking of submitting your App to the App store? Rormix return with their latest startup diary post on what you should keep in mind before doing just that..."Hi everyone, As promised last week, I’ll elaborate a bit on what you should keep in mind before you submit to the app stores. First let me just say, developing for Android - not just iOS - proved to be one of the best decisions we&rs...
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It’d be fair to say that these days we’re all pretty much used to food labels outlining the nutritional content of whatever we’re eating. Should we choose to pay attention, we can quite easily work out the calorie content of every meal we consume. But what about the other side of things - how we burn calories. Figuring that out hasn’t always been as easy. And that’s ...
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Rormix is an emerging music video discovery platform who are sharing their startup tale on Startacus. Last week Rormix gave us all 5 tips for finding your dream developer and it's back over Over to Agi, the PR and marketing team member of Rormix with their tips on building a killer App...#discover: Tips to build a killer app Hi everyone, I’m back and I’m about to s...
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Earlier this week we took a look at the amazing ‘Creative Mornings’ and the unprecedented success they have had in expanding their breakfast talk series from humble beginnings in the US to cities all over the world. Now we travel down under to take a look at a participatory art project which is attempting to improve the lives of urban dwellers on an international scale... Peace and qu...
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Ever fancied learning how to play blues guitar? Or would making neon art be more your thing? Well...thanks to our latest Startup of the Week, doing things just like that has become a whole lot easier. The Indytute is an online platform offering lessons in those very things plus many more besides…It’s fast becoming the perfect place to discover and book truly unique experiences - eith...
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No internet access - how we discovered quite recently how that's not necessarily always a bad thing...As usual, I plodded merrily along into the Startacus office last Wednesday, cheerily planning the day’s work in my head when I was met with a scene I had been dreading for many a moon...the internet had finally stopped working... Panic ensued as questions shot across the room “How wil...
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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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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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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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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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