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If you’ve ever been tasked with finding a space for something - whether it’s a business meeting or a location for a photo shoot, you’ll know only too well that it can be a pretty challenging task - particularly if you’d like to find somewhere that’s a tad different from the norm. That however need no longer be the case thanks to our latest Startup of the Week. HeadB...
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We only have to look at the likes of eBay, Craigslist, or Uber to see how lucrative a simple two-sided marketplace business can be, but don’t let the seemingly effortless success of such businesses fool you. Starting a business and trying to build up a consumer base is never an easy task. Building up two separate consumer bases at the same time is an even bigger challenge; yet this is what b...
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We’ve all been there - called our fave restaurant to book a table only to be told that there are none available. So we try another one. If it’s a similar story there, we’re generally faced with two options - keep going until we do find a table or give up entirely and try for a different date! If that’s a scenario that you’ve faced and been frustrated by, then we reck...
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Workplace By Facebook - What We Know So Far According to Facebook’s Newsroom - did you know they had a newsroom? - the company has been using its own internal version of the social network for years to keep employees connected. For more than a year, they have been testing a version of this service specifically for the workplace with businesses all over the world. With over 1,000 businesses ...
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30% Sponsorship to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt and SLUSH The team at Startacus HQ, we are pleased to tell you that our friends at Radix are offering shortlisted Startups 30% sponsorship to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt, London and SLUSH, Helsinki in 2016! Radix is a new gTLD registry for domain extensions like .TECH, .ONLINE, .SPACE, .STORE, and so forth and are offering the sponsorship opport...
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Some of you may already be well aware that this is no ordinary week - it’s Chocolate Week - seven days when it’s an absolute must to embrace all things cocoa-related. Our latest Startup of the Week are doing just that - however the difference is that they’re doing it the entire year long. Love Cocoa is a new artisan chocolate service which delivers letterbox chocolate gifts ri...
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Software as a service (SaaS) is often more viable to small and mid-sized businesses than having in-house teams doing the same tasks. It can also make things easier knowing that another company is responsible for ensuring the service maintains consistency, and if something goes wrong, it isn’t another thing your budding company needs to fork out to fix. There are plenty of startups tack...
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Apps World is happening in London 19th-20th October at the ExCeL go here to get yourself a ticket! Apps World is the only event to focus entirely on apps from conception, investment, and startups all the way to design, development, and marketing.  So pretty much everything you could want, under one roof. The team have grown to become the world leader in their field attracting an impressive ...
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If you’ve ever had to rent a car, you’ll know only too well that things don’t always go as exactly as you’d like - from the lengthy queues at the airport service desk to collect your keys through to the extra fees and charges that somehow get added to your bill. However, issues such as these could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to our latest Startup of the Week. Ride...
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As we all know, the food industry has become ever more complex in recent years. Therefore it’d be fair to say that a farmer’s lot is not an easy one. They’re faced with challenges galore - from dealing with environmental changes, to the practical impact of new legislation. The entire farm to fork process can be a challenging one with a pretty complicated supply chain. That, h...
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Our friends at Tech North are on the hunt to discover the most promising early-stage tech companies operating in the North of England(Applications close on October 9th!) The poetically named Northern Stars Pitch Competition is travelling the length and breadth of Northern England to find innovative and potentially disruptive startups to go head-to-head with their peers and win an impressive bundl...
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Book your ticket now! Some great news for Startups in the Manchester area who are looking for an awesome growth opportunity right on their doorstep. The teams from CISCO and Manchester Science Partnerships have teamed up to create Mi-IDEA, a post-accelerator designed to foster and nurture digital innovation in the North West of England. The establishment of the Mi-IDEA centre follows on from th...
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